I am in Porto, having spent a fascinating weekend in Bavaria with my old, young friend Bernhard and his gorgeous family. Along the way I was lucky enough to get a special tour (available once a year) of the Zeppelin Fields structures which a certain Mr Hitler used for spectacular propaganda events some 80 years ago. I actually did a simple massing model of this as part of my research into colossal scale in the build up to my final pumpkin project in 2014
The tour gave some fascinating insights into how it was actually built, as well as a peek into the intriguing dilemma of how to set about “restoring” or at least maintaining a monument with such a terrifying history. I won’t go into that now, but it would be very interesting to do a bit more modelling and to talk about the moral issues involved in historic/heritage projects. Many of the monuments we revere and hold up as symbols of national pride were built for oppressive regimes using something close to slave labour, but we…
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