Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the essays in the book examine the role of memory in the creation of our built environment. Part I 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 ...
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Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the essays in the book examine the role of memory in the creation of our built environment. Part I 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 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 Bastea examines the cities of Thessaloniki and Istanbul as reflected in literary novels. Part III 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?
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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.
