Under control - An Archaeology of Nuclear Power

Food for thought, this time from someone else:
“We are currently entering a new stage of industrial architecture, the architecture of nuclear energy. Give or take a few details, the phenomenon repeats itself. Big industrial establishments are set up in rural areas in the middle of landscapes that were until then largely deserted. They will last from twenty to thirty years and then be left dormant for a long period of deactivation. They will remain, therefore, as an architectural testimony. They may even become the new landmarks of modern romanticism. We need to determine a policy in this respect. What kind of landscape do we wish to have once the plant has been closed down? This will be the third landscape since we will have passed, in a maximum of thirty years, from a rural aspect to that of architecture within its setting to arrive at obsolete architecture”. C. Parent, Revue Française de l'Électricité n° 269, June 1980.

Jürgen Ellinghaus
Director