S&D#020: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GRAND MOSQUE OF ATHENS 12″ (2013)

Excepted from 'The Secret Lives of Buildings' by Edward Holis

The Destruction Of The Grand Mosque Of Athens 12″ (2013)
Published by Smoke & Dust on the opening of 019 on the 20th of March 2014

Excepted from ‘The Secret Lives of Buildings’ by Edward Holis
Read by Mathew Kneebone, January 2013
Recorded and mastered by Pauwel De Buck at 019
Inside drawing by Olivier Goethals
Back image and layout by We Became Aware
Produced by Smoke & Dust at 019 (S&D#020)

SIDE A
– Ruin
– Circa 460
– 1687

SIDE B
– 1816
– 1834
– The Present

Concrete, marble, steel & brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shapeshifters