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Blitz Dbq

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The year was 1943 and London was in the midst of realizing the extension of the damage caused after the Blitz, where German bombs were aimed at the Commons Chamber. Now, the Commons, alongside with Winston Churchill, had to rebuild the Chambers. That was when Churchill decided to maintain the old rectangular pattern of the room claiming that it was the cause for the English democracy system to be divided by two parties, saying the famous phrase: “We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us” (Churchill, 1943). He was no expert in architecture or design, but he was wise enough to realize the importance of it in the interactions between humans and the environment. People’s lives occur around the buildings they build; it is only

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