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DEATH AND STATUES

During the war, in October 1941, the pro-Nazi Vichy government decreed that statues "without artistic or historical importance" could be torn to pieces by the Germans in order to reuse the metal.

In December, the photographer Pierre Jahan, taking considerable risks, photographed them, piled up in a courtyard in Paris, in the 12th arrondissement, ready to leave for the foundries.

Jean Cocteau was so enthusiastic about those photographs that he decided to publish them in a book, writing the text himself.

Koshiro Onchi, Open air Music Hall, 1930

The construction of the University of Shiraz was based on structure and teaching concept similar to a US campus. This was realized by the American architect Minoru Yamasaki. The idea of architecture as a machine was intended as a symbol for the modernization of a society. 

Minoru Yamasaki / Modam (Mohammad Reza Moghtader): Pahlavi University (today: Shiraz University), Shiraz, Iran, 1960–1979

https://sosbrutalism.org/cms/18861237 

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