Losing site
Subtitle: architecture, memory, and place
By: by Shelley Hornstein
Series: Ashgate studies in architecture
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781409408710; 9781409408727
Subjects: Social aspects; Place (Philosophy) in architecture; Memory
Other titles: Architecture, memory, and place
Description: This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It examines how architecture exists as a physical entity and how it registers as a place that we come to remember, as well as whether it can exist or be found beyond the physical site itself in our recollection of it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : losing site; title: Marking site : Walter Benjamin was here; title: Memorializing site : on the grounds of history; title: Transporting site : postcards of Israel and nation-building; title: Destroying site : houses and objects, inside out; title: Curating site : museums, itineraries and networks beyond borders; title: Erasing site : spies on the other side of the full moon; title: Conclusion : finding site.