on richard strauss and mourning buildings

I thought about our recent discussions on the Kilgore House  while listening to today's episode of Performance Today, an NPR show. This episode mentioned Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen, which was reportedly composed to mourn the bombing of Munich during World War II. A YouTube clip of the song is posted here. After the war, Strauss was especially sadden to see the loss of buildings including the Munich Opera House. Some have questioned why he musically mourned a building and not the lives of people. Such an idea may have meaning for students enrolled in this course. They randomly selected buildings that existed in Tuscaloosa during the nineteenth century. The Kilgore House is the only structure selected that is no more. I am curious about how we will visually consider its absence via a short movie that brings together the students' individual research.