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Revisionist History

December 1, 2024

For most of 1985-1995 I was not in love with architecture. That love had been mostly cerebral and unrequited anyway, so it was more of a switching-off than any one, singular event. Invariably though, when one tries to switch off, news from the other side begins to creep back in. Sometime – I don’t remember when […]

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The Wrong Side of History

September 10, 2023

Graham McKay

fake history, History and its uses, history in motion

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I only learned about Victorian era architect Decimus Burton (1800–1881) a few months ago when two articles on him appeared in The Guardian online the same day. Decimus Burton was a skilled and prolific architect who, until recently, was mostly forgotten or, more to the point, never remembered. Both articles suggested this was because he […]