Spatial recall : memory in architecture and landscape
Title:
Spatial recall : memory in architecture and landscape
Author:
Treib, Marc, editor.
ISBN:
9780415777353
9780415777360
Physical Description:
xv, 268 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Contributors -- Introduction / Marc Treib -- 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 -- Landscape. 5. Rivers, meanders, and memory / Matt Kondolf -- 6. Displacements : canals, rivers, and flows / Georges Descombes -- 7. Land, cows, and pyramids / Adriaan Geuze -- Building. 8. The Mediterranean cemetery : landscape as collective memory / Luigi Latini -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
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