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The edited volume, Memory and Architecture, explores the role of memory and historical imagination in the way we construct and construe our selves and the world. Using a diversity of methodological strategies -- textual analysis of literature and archival material, material culture analysis, autobiographical narratives, and pedagogical exercises ? this book provides an exemplary framework for studying the ?politics of memory.? ]The central issue that complicates contemporary historiography is that of authorship. This problem has not been adequately addressed in architectural history because of the way the canonical texts have been written. Architectural historians, until recently, concentrated on individual buildings as objects of analysis and the architect-genius as the author of these artifacts. This volume rejects the above notion of architectural history and aligns with historians, material culture scholars, archeologists, and cultural geographers who study ordinary everyday landscapes and situate the building artifact within an encompassing cultural context. The book is divided into four parts. In part 1 authors address how national memories are produced. Part 2 turns the methodological lens upside down as authors study voices of individual poets and fiction writers who challenge, adapt, and transform top-down narratives in everyday life. Part 3 continues documenting voices, but these are the authors? personal narratives of Beirut, Belfast and Albuquerque. While textual analysis methods popular in literature and cultural studies can be central to our reading of the environment, the language of architecture is complicated by its geographic contexts and multiple subjects who populate these spaces. Contributors to this volume resort to textual analysis of literary accounts. The last section, ?Voices from the studio,? is perhaps oddly juxtaposed with the rest, but it is this section that makes this book unique and relevant to those interested in architectural education. Memory and Architecture will serve a large readership circle -- from preservationists, historians, cultural geographers, and cultural studies scholars to the studio instructor and the architectural historian.