Presenting difficult pasts through architecture : converting National Socialist sites to documentation centers / Rumiko Handa.

Main entry:

Handa, Rumiko, 1955- author.

Title & Author:

Presenting difficult pasts through architecture : converting National Socialist sites to documentation centers / Rumiko Handa.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
©2021

Description:

xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postwar rebuilding and coping with the past -- Four documentation centers-histories -- In the shadow of propaganda architecture -- Presenting pasts through architecture : intellectual framework -- Formal characteristics -- Physical traces -- Designation -- Memento.

Summary:

"Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to pre-existing buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this comparative analysis, Rumiko Handa establishes the critical role architectural designs play in presenting difficult pasts by examining documentation centers in Germany. Presenting Difficult Pasts through Architecture analyses four centers-Cologne, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Munich-and their shared intent to make material evidence of National Socialism involvement in authentic perpetrator sites which were part of both peaceful prior histories and current everyday life. Applying original frameworks, Handa considers what more architectural design could do toward meaningful representations and interpretations. This book is a must-read for students practitioners and academics interested in how architectural design can participate in presenting the difficult pasts of historical places in meaningful ways"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780367217617 hardcover
0367217619 hardcover
9780367217624 paperback
0367217627 paperback
electronic book
9780429265891

Subject:

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei Buildings.
Stiftung Topographie des Terrors.
EL-DE-Haus (Cologne, Germany)
NS-Dokumentationszentrum (Munich, Germany)
Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände Nürnberg.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
Architecture and history Germany.
National socialism and architecture.
National socialism Historiography.
Architecture et histoire Allemagne.
Nazisme et architecture.
Nazisme Historiographie.
Architecture and history.
Buildings.
Germany.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309600
Call No.: BIB 254816
Status: Available

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