Description
Architecture and designed landscapes serve as grand mnemonic devices that record and transmit vital aspects of culture and history. Spatial Recall casts a broad net over the concept of memory and gives a variety of perspectives from twelve internationally noted scholars, practicing designers, and artists such as Juhani Pallasmaa, Adriaan Geuze, Susan Schwartzenberg, Georges Descombes and Esther da Costa Meyer.
Essays range from broad topics of message and audience to specific ones of landscape production. Beautifully illustrated, Spatial Recall is a comprehensive view of memory in the built environment, how we have read it in the past, and how we can create it in the future.
CONTENTS
Part I: Body
- Juhani Pallasma: Space, Place, Memory, and Imagination: The Temporal Dimension of Existential Space
- Susan Schwartzenberg: Re-Creating the Past: Notes on the Neurology of Memory
- Donlyn Lyndon: The Place of Memory
- Alice Aycock: Indelible Marker, Palimpsest, Thin Air
Part II: Landscapes
- Matt Kondolf: Rivers, Meanders, and Memory
- Georges Descombes: Displacements: Canals, Rivers, and Flows
- Adriaan Geuze: Land, Cows and Pyramids
- Luigi Latini: The Mediterranean Cemetery: Landscape as Collective Memory
Part III: Buildings
- Esther da Costa Meyer: The Place of Place in Memory
- Marc Treib: Remembering Ruins, Ruins Remembering
- Andrew Shanken: The Memory Industry and Its Discontents: The Death and Life of a Keyword
- Jorge Otero-Pailos: Mnemonic Value and Historic Preservation
272 pages / 15,5 x 23,5 cm / English
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