My first thought was that the Richard Pare photographs recalled those of Mussolini’s holiday camps for children photographed by Dan Dubowitz in the book Fascismo Abbandonato: Fascism in Ruins, but actually the mood is very different.  Whilst Dubowitz’s images revel in a sense of beauty through chaos and ruin, Pare records buildings which are tidy and uncluttered by the detritus of either decay or subsequent adaptation. In the catalogue Pare recalls  how in one building “wandering in the empty silence …. I felt as though the structure had returned to the essence of the architects’  intention; all superfluity had been torn away and what remained was the bare bones of the structure”. [p. 101]  However in some cases this stripping back has revealed that all is not as it might seem: as Pare points out, architects and engineers were “deploying medieval construction techniques to fulfil the requirements of a modern vocabulary”  [p.102]