17 Oct

Architectural history to me is always made active unless it is underground or abandoned.  Just that certain buildings actively perform better than others.  As the Colosseum has active history through time from brutal sports, to worship center to housing.  But at the moment it is actively frozen in time as a tourist attraction and only as tourist attraction.  But as the church in Napoli, the community makes this space of worship very active.  Not only are they using the space for worship, but as a symbol of pride to the community.  Here Napoli’s are cleaning the church.  And to me that is a historically active architecture.  The daily life’s of people is what makes history active.