THE GUERILLA BUILDING
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THE GUERILLA BUILDING:
The guerilla building was architecturally just a shelter, a barrack on a building site, but it was called “The House of People” and thus referred to meaning of freedom, equality, power, and so on. The space in itself was neutral, but in order prove that it had a political meaning, specific signs to this effect were necessary so as to give it a name or, less crudely, to perform political acts involving building (in this case, erecting a building for the people on private or state property) It was a rhetorical act, and the only possible one, for the main reason for suchacts was their symbolic and exemplary value in the seizure of the land, not in the design of what built.
The guerilla building was architecturally just a shelter, a barrack on a building site, but it was called “The House of People” and thus referred to meaning of freedom, equality, power, and so on. The space in itself was neutral, but in order prove that it had a political meaning, specific signs to this effect were necessary so as to give it a name or, less crudely, to perform political acts involving building (in this case, erecting a building for the people on private or state property) It was a rhetorical act, and the only possible one, for the main reason for suchacts was their symbolic and exemplary value in the seizure of the land, not in the design of what built.
