Memory and Architecture (Hardcover, New)

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 Basta 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 couldnt we be drawn more often into learning about architecture by studying howit 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?

"About the contributors"
Carel Bertram is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities, San Francisco State University.
Thomas Fisher is professor and dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota.
Christine Gorby is an architect and associate professor in the Department of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University.
Catherine Hamel is an artist and assistant professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada.
Rachel Hurst and Jane Lawrence are senior lecturers in the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of South Australia.
Mark Jarzombek is associate professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture, MIT.
Sabir Khan is associate professor and associate dean of undergraduate studies at the College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Fernando Lara is an architect and assistant professor of architecture in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.
Maria de Lourdes Luz is dean of the School of Design and Visual Arts, Veiga de Almeida University, Rio de Janeiro.
Barbara Mann is associate professor of Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
V. B. Price teaches in the University Honors Program at the University of New Mexico.
Eric Sandweiss is Carmony Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Ana Lucia Vieira dos Santos is a professor at theSchool of Design and Visual Arts, Veiga de Almeida University, Rio de Janeiro.
Sheona Thomson teaches in the architecture program at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.