{"id":56605,"date":"2022-04-30T14:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/?p=56605"},"modified":"2022-04-30T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:33:53","slug":"sarajevo-war-achitecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2022\/04\/30\/sarajevo-war-achitecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Sarajevo’s ‘Warchitecture’ and War Wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ongoing news about the war crimes between Russia & Ukraine has been reminding me a lot of the days I spent walking around in Sarajevo- another city wounded by war in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

War brings about the worst aspects of humanity. With some people calling this war a genocide, there’s been great suffering, great loss, and countless atrocities. It seems the world has been on edge that this conflict could unfold into a World War III between a number of countries including nuclear-weapon states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing good comes from war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Archduke<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two shots were fired in Sarajevo igniting the fires of war drawing Europe into World War I. Just hours after narrowly escaping an assassin’s bomb, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire was killed by Gavrilo Princip at the very spot where I’m standing in the photo above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Where<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

World War I… World War II…. the Bosnian War… Sarajevo has been through a lot of tumultuous times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warchitecture is a term coined to describe how war redesigns landscapes and alters terrain leading behind wounds and scars everywhere you look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In cities wounded by war, architectural artifacts are victims of man’s rage. Throughout the ages, we’ve seen this pattern repeat. In Athens, I witnessed the remains of a war-damaged Acropolis. In Ukraine, we see this happening to significant buildings with each passing day.<\/strong><\/a> In Germany, much of their modern-day architecture has been built with a focus on functionality over form because things needed to be rebuilt quickly after World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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