Memory and architecture [electronic resource] / edited by Eleni Bastéa.

ISBN:

9780826332714

9786613947727

9781283635271

Title:

Memory and architecture [electronic resource] / edited by Eleni Bastéa.

Author:

Bastéa, Eleni.

Publication Information:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Framing urban memory : the changing role of history museums in the American city / Eric Sandweiss -- Disguised visibilities : Dresden/"Dresden" / Mark Jarzombek -- Designed memories : the roots of Brazilian modernism / Fernando Lara -- Patrimony and cultural identity : the coffee plantation system, Paraíba Valley, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Maria de Lourdes Luz and Ana Lúcia Vieira Dos Santos -- Memory work : the reciprocal framing of self and place in Émigré autobiographies / Sabir Khan -- Memory and diaspora in Tel Aviv's old cemetery / Barbara Mann -- Housing the symbolic universe in early republican Turkey : architecture, memory, and "the Felt Real" / Carel Bertram -- Storied cities : literary memories of Thessaloniki and Istanbul / Eleni Bastéa -- Beirut, exile, and the scars of reconstruction / Catherine Hamel -- Diffused spaces : a sacred study of West Belfast, North Ireland / Christine Gorby -- Profaning sacred space : Los Angeles in New Mexico / V.B. Price -- What memory? Whose memory? / Thomas Fisher -- (Re)placing, remembering, revealing : understanding through memory and making / Rachel Hurst and Jane Lawrence -- Places within and without : memory, the literary imagination, and the project in the design studio / Sheona Thomson.

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Subject Term:

Space (Architecture) -- Psychological aspects.

Memory -- Social aspects.

Architecture and literature.

Architectural design -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Bastéa, Eleni.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2004

Publication Information:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

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Summary

Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the essays in "Memory and Architecture" examine the role of memory in the creation of our built environment.

Part I, "Designing National Memories," examines the ways institutions and individuals construct national memory. Eric Sandweiss discusses American urban history museums; Mark Jarzombek addresses the reconstruction of Dresden, Germany; Fernando Lara contrasts Brazilian modern architecture to earlier European modernism; and Maria de Lourdes Luz and Ana Lucia Santos look at Brazilian history through the prism of the coffee plantation system.

Part II, "Literary Memory Spaces," focuses on the treatment of place in literature. Sabir Khan spotlights the experiences of two South Asian women who return to their homelands after several years abroad to discover changes in their native landscape. Barbara Mann explores the Old Cemetry in Tel Aviv, while Carel Bertram considers images of the Turkish house, and Eleni Bast a examines the cities of Thessaloniki and Istanbul as reflected in literary novels.

Part III, "Personal Cartographies," comprises three personal essays: Catherine Hamel on Beirut, Christine Gorby on Belfast, and V. B. Price on Los Angeles and Albuquerque. "The Voices from the Studio" in Part IV considers the ways memory may apply to the teaching of architecture. Thomas Fisher writes about the state of architectural education, Rachel Hurst and Jane Lawrence describe their teaching methods. Sheona Thomson examines the relationship between the spaces of architecture and the spaces of literature asking, "Why couldn't we be drawn more often into learning about architecture by studying how it has been painted by Giotto, or described by Virginia Woolf, or, for that matter, by being asked to reflect on our own recollections of place?"