The article “Broken Homes” by Andrew Mackenzie deals with various concepts of Callum Morton’s work. Mackenzie writes of the art work Valhalla and how the work explores “battlefields”. This is in reference not only to modern day ruins in Afghanistan, war and terror, but (in architectural terms) “the story of a broken home”. Mackenzie cleverly describes the house “as a battlefield in which the everyday drama of thwarted domesticity plays out. “ He then goes on to relate the house to the domains of public and private. I enjoy how the outside of the house takes on more of a real, yet morbid representation and then as you enter the inside it represents that of purity and cleanliness. Mackenzie brings out a great social concern with the family home and relates it to Jane Jacobs, who holds housing partly to blame for lack of socialising and communication. Many interesting issues are brought up through the article, many of which i did not perceive myself. I enjoyed reading it as it gave me a different perception of the works meaning. Andrew Mackenzie created a piece of writing that was stimulating, yet not too hard to understand. Overall a good article.
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