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both Alessio Mamo/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/01/ ukraine-rebuild-bucha-prompts-corruption-reconstruction
Two images from The Guardian of April 1, 2023, the top a church in Dolina after Russian bombing, and above, the ongoing mending of bombed apartments, this one in Kharkiv, at the beginning of the invasion.
Two significant typologies, both buildings from previous eras, the pre-soviet and the soviet, both damaged. The church can be reconstructed, in the way carpet-bombed Dresden was after WWII, but there is a political question whether future resources will be spent in this kind of reconstruction of a past that Ukraine wishes to leave behind: its historic, oft-unwilling, affiliation with the Russian Empire in its many guises. Given the schism between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Churches, perhaps the rebuilding of a church on the site will be a different expression of faith. The apartment building isn’t being reconstructed as an iconic building, rather it is being mended immediately. This is the difference between houses and housing. Houses come and go; housing is eternal. The two have entirely different time frames. g
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