The Internet was good for fans of "ruin porn" by providing a platform for sharing images and even coining the phrase, courtesy of a well-known blogger Detroit in 09. However, the phenomenon is not really as new as most people believe. In this article, originally published on 6sqft as " Before there was 'Ruin Porn' There was 'Ruin Value' " Diane Pham develops the idea of the connection between the ruins and architectural value ( recently discussed in a ArchDaily Silva Shayari article), delving into the amazing history of the concept.
in the hierarchy of 'things like the internet " we would say that the porn ruin sitting stuck somewhere between quizzes and BuzzFeed cats. Images of decaying architecture evoke disturbing feelings of tragedy and loss, but somehow manage to grab us with its intangible beauty. Whatever the cause of this, perhaps, the pleasure and the pleasure we get from research ruin porn is palpable.
The term "ruin porn" was invented by James Griffioen blogger during a 09 interview with vice magazine in which he criticized photographers who observed oppressed Detroit provocative pictures. While the trend is ruin porn in hand, decades before his arrival, there was something called "ruin value."
The idea of the destruction of value has been launched by the German architect Albert Speer as he had planned for the Games Olympic summer of 1936. He published an essay entitled "the Theory of ruin value" which details the value of buildings carefully planned and designed that in their decadence would be behind the attractive ruins that would last through the ages without any maintenance at all. Although Speer according to the concept as his own, as the ruin porn, a similar idea was popularized previously.
The idea dates back to the 18th century, when the same aesthetic has been idealized to the point that people built fake ruins. There was even a case where a German Landgraf ordered a "new castle in ruins."
a somewhat disturbing revelation is that Adolf Hitler was a fervent supporter of the idea and even planned architecture of the Third Reich with the value of the ruin in mind. He admired what the Greeks and Romans had achieved and believed that their ruins were symbolic of the grandeur and civilization, the only real evidence of their existence. Hitler wanted to achieve the same results, and he and Speer even collaborated on the rally field portion Nazis with Speer that principal architect.
fascism aside, it is interesting to consider the urban landscape of New York which is often hailed as "the greatest city on the earth "with some of the world's most recognizable architecture. What is the value of the ruin of our city? With such a rapidly changing urbanscape, do we have one? According to Speer, steel beams and reinforced concrete are not favorable because they fail to degrade in an aesthetic way as natural materials such as stone.
1964 Some tent called Philip Johnson tomorrow in Queens a modern ruin, but efforts to restore correctly greatness of his former world are underway. Today, the growing popularity of adaptive reuse and urban renewal have caused the idea of falling even further from our minds.
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