Three Architectures, Three Times and Three Places in the Ruins of the Parthenon
Journal: sITA
Year: 2023

Inhabiting ruins is closely connected to discovering a memory. Memory is that room where, sometimes, our gaze lingers, looking for a time and a place of our own. Inhabiting is, then, moving to a place whose memory we aim to turn into our homeland. We propose three moves – three gazes – that sought that homeland in the same place: the ruins of the Parthenon. First, the move of a London engraver who captured the opulent fête that a minister of the Greek army oﬀered to the French and English troops