Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers

ISBN-13: 9780367217617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 210 str.

Rumiko Handa

Opis

Presenting Difficult Pasts through Architecture analyses four centers—Cologne, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Munich—and their shared intent to make material evidence of National Socialism involvement in authentic perpetrator sites which were part of both peaceful prior histories and now part of current everyday life.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. Postwar Rebuilding and Coping with the Past;  2. Four Documentation Centers – Histories;  3. In the Shadow of Propaganda Architecture;  4. Presenting Pasts through Architecture – Intellectual Framework;  5. Formal Characteristics;  6. Physical Traces;  7. Designation;  8. Memento;  Conclusion

O autorze

Rumiko Handa is Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. She holds a PhD in architectural theory from the University of Pennsylvania and a BArch from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her writings have appeared in: Montreal Architecture Review; Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture; The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Preservation Education & Research; Design Studies; and so on. She co-edited Conjuring the Real: The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. She is also the author of Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent.