1. “It is natural to want to replace something important lost to the destruction of war. Ideologies count on this desire among people, and thus make restoration their first principle of reconstruction. Is the restoration/recession part of a new typology and exploration or is it firmly to recapture something irretrievably lost?
2. The “first city of the 21th century, Sarajevo, was a place of symbolized reason. What exposed the city with a serious challenge during the outbreak of war? Was there a solution?
3. Woods’ gives examples of cities that experience war, destruction, and separation. Do you think that he is stating that we need war in order to create architecture and knowledge? Is it a way to “generate the energy for reconstruction?”
4. Woods’ argument is, “what happens when the normative is disrupted, as in war (Sarajevo), economic strangulation (Havana), or earthquake (San Francisco), or as a result of the equally radical but largely hidden transformations created by rapid political, social, or technological change? And what if this disruption reveals the normative as a comforting illusion, nothing more than a ritual of conventions repeated mantra like in order to shield people from a horrible truth: that life is without universal or even a common reading?” What commonalities do you see with LTL’s “snafu” ideology?
5. In the last section called “Twenty Tactics of a New Practice” there are 21 suggestions. Were there any that stood out to you and why?
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