1st Edition

Spatial Recall Memory in Architecture and Landscape

Edited By Marc Treib Copyright 2009
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

“A stimulating, reader-friendly book, and a topic that is of increasing interest to those in the profession, and more widely.”Landscape Lover's Blog