Abstract:

The listing of the capital of Eritrea Asmara as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017 has raised a series of contradictory questions around Italian fascist colonial heritage: is the nomination part of the longer path of Eritrea’s decolonization and reappropriation of its colonial history or does this lead to the celebration of modernist architecture and its entanglements with colonialism and fascism? This essay draws inspiration from the case of Asmara, as a way to stir a debate around the afterlife of colonial fascist architecture, and its critical reuse. By discussing the interrelated concepts of repair, reparations, and prothesis within the debates in heritage studies and to the practices of architectural preservation, this essay claims a space for architectural heritage in the entangled struggles of decolonization and de-fascistization. Moreover, it reads fascism’s architectural heritage—and its histories of dispossession and violence—as part of modernism’s controversial history of segregation that cut across the southern and northern hemispheres. In so doing this essay introduces the concept of de-modernization into the debate around critical architectural preservation as part of a transnational struggle for justice against old and new forms of fascisms and colonialisms.

摘要：

厄立特里亚首都阿斯马拉在2017年被联合国教科文组织列为世界遗产，这引发了围绕意大利法西斯殖民地遗产的一系列矛盾的问题：这是厄立特里亚非殖民化和重新殖民殖民历史的漫长道路的提名部分，还是导致了庆祝现代主义建筑及其与殖民主义和法西斯主义的纠缠？本文从阿斯马拉的案例中汲取灵感，以此来引发关于殖民法西斯主义建筑的来世及其关键性再利用的辩论。通过讨论修复，赔偿和假体的相互联系的概念在有关遗产研究和建筑保护实践的辩论中，本文主张在非殖民化和法西斯主义纠缠的斗争中为建筑遗产提供空间。此外，它读懂了法西斯主义的建筑遗产及其剥夺和暴力的历史，这是现代主义关于南北半球的有争议的种族隔离史的一部分。在此过程中，本文将去现代化的概念引入了关于重要建筑保护的辩论中，这是跨国抗击新旧形式的法西斯主义和殖民主义的跨国斗争的一部分。