Memory and architecture / edited by Eleni Bastea.

Contributor(s):

Bastea, Eleni [ed.]

Language: English Publication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.Description: xv, 335 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

0826332692
0826332692

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

NA2765 M46 2004

Contents:

Part One : Designing National Memories -- Chapter one. Framing Urban Memory : The Changing Role of History Museums in the American City / Eric Sandweiss -- Chapter two. Disguised Visibilities : Dresden/"Dresden" / Mark Jarzombek -- Chapter Three. Designed Memories : The Roots of Brazilian Modernism / Fernando Lara -- Chapter Four. Patrimony and Cultural Identity : The Coffee Plantataion System - Paraiba Valley, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Maria de Lourdes Luz and Ana Lucia Vieira Dos Santos -- Part Two : Literary Memory Spaces -- Chapter Five. Memory Work : The Reciprocal Framing of Self and Place in Emigré Autobiographies / Sabir Khan -- Chapter six. Memory and Diaspora in Tel Aviv's Old Cemetery / Barbara Mann -- Chapter seven. Housing the Symbolic Universe in Early Republican Turkey : Architecture, Memory, and " felt Real " / Carel Bertram -- Chapter eight. Storied Cities : Literary Memories of Thessaloniki and Istanbul / Eleni Bastéa -- Part Three : Personal Cartographies -- Chapter nine. Beirut, Exile, and the Scars of Reconstruction / Catherine Hamel -- Chapter Ten. Diffused Spaces : A Sacred Study of West Belfast, North Ireland / Christine Gorby -- Chapter eleven. Profanning Sacred Space : Los Angeles in New Mexico / V. B. Price -- Part Four : Voices from the Studio -- Chapter twelve. What Memory? Whose Memory? / Thomas Fisher -- Chapter thirteen. (Re) Placing, Remembering, Revealing : Understanding through Memory and Making / Rachel Hurst and Jane Lawrence -- Chapter fourteen. Places within and witout : Memory, the Literary Imagination, and the Project in the Design Studio / Sheona Thomson.

Summary: Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the essays in Memory and Architecture examine the role of memory in the creation of our built environment. Part I, "Designing National Memories," 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, "Literary Memory Spaces," 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 Bastéa examines the cities of Thessaloniki and Istanbul as reflected in literary novels. Part III, "Personal Cartographies," 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü Kütüphanesi / Netherlands Institute in Turkey Library	NA2765, M46 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Not For Loan		10241

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the essays in Memory and Architecture examine the role of memory in the creation of our built environment. Part I, "Designing National Memories," 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, "Literary Memory Spaces," 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 Bastéa examines the cities of Thessaloniki and Istanbul as reflected in literary novels. Part III, "Personal Cartographies," 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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