2021
DOI: 10.1177/1206331221997656
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Getting the Right Shade of Ochre: Valuation of a Building’s Historicity

Abstract: This article examines the praise and controversy that a change in color to the façade of the Główny railway station in Wrocław, Poland, provoked during 2010–2012. Ethnographically following the definitions and makings of a “historical” color during the reconstruction process, it pinpoints two contrasting and conflicting ways of valuing and devaluing historicity: the “scientifically accurate” historicity versus the “familiar” one. Examining urban experts’ practices of valuating the historicity of this building,… Show more

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“…Spatial order is commonly described as the esthetic of the place (Miko1ajczyk & Raszka, 2019). The creation of esthetically pleasing character of the monument, in which the monument's elements are integrated and form the visually harmonious monument's unity, is one of the example how spatial order concept works (Halauniova, 2021). Nevertheless, such an approach is too narrow; not only an esthetic composition is the subject of spatial order.…”
Section: The Concept Of Spatial Ordermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Spatial order is commonly described as the esthetic of the place (Miko1ajczyk & Raszka, 2019). The creation of esthetically pleasing character of the monument, in which the monument's elements are integrated and form the visually harmonious monument's unity, is one of the example how spatial order concept works (Halauniova, 2021). Nevertheless, such an approach is too narrow; not only an esthetic composition is the subject of spatial order.…”
Section: The Concept Of Spatial Ordermentioning
confidence: 99%