Spatial Recall : Memory in Architecture and Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780415777353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str.

Treib Marc

Opis

This beautifully illustrated work contains essays from renowned international contributors giving a variety of perspectives of the role of memory in the built environment, how we have read it in the past and how we can create it in the future. Essays range from broad topics of message and audience to specific ones of landscape production.

Spis treści

Yes, Now I Remember: An Introduction Marc Treib  Part 1: Body  1. Space, Place, Memory, and Imagination: The Temporal Dimension of Existential Space Juhani Pallasmaa  2. Re-Creating the Past: Notes on the Neurology of Memory Susan Schwartzenberg  3. The Place of Memory Donlyn Lyndon  4. Indelible Marker, Palimpsest, Thin Air Alice Aycock  Part 2: Landscapes  5. Rivers, Meanders, and Memory Matt Kondolf  6. Displacements: Canals, Rivers, and Flows Georges Descombes 7. Land, Cows and Pyramids Adriaan Geuze  8. The Mediterranean Cemetery: Landscape as Collective Memory Luigi Latini  Part 3: Buildings  9. The Place of Place in Memory Esther da Costa Meyer  10. Remembering Ruins, Ruins Remembering Marc Treib  11. The Memory Industry and Its Discontents: The Death and Life of a Keyword Andrew Shanken  12. Mnemonic Value and Historic Preservation Jorge Otero-Pailos

O autorze

Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a historian and critic of landscape and architecture who has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan and Scandinavia.