Losing site : architecture, memory and place / Shelley Hornstein.

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Hornstein, Shelley.

Title & Author:

Losing site : architecture, memory and place / Shelley Hornstein.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Marking site : Walter Benjamin was here -- Memorializing site : on the grounds of history -- Transporting sites : Israel, postcards and nation-building -- Destroying sites : places and things inside out -- Curating site : museums, itineraries and networks beyond borders -- Erasing sites : spies on the other side of the full moon -- Finding site.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Ebook Library
MyiLibrary, Table of contents

ISBN:

9781409408710 (hardback ; alk. paper)
140940871X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781409408727 (ebook)
1409408728 (ebook)

Subject:

Place (Philosophy) in architecture.
Memory Social aspects.
Lieu (Philosophie) en architecture.
Architecture and Planning.
Architektur.
Erinnerung.
Ort.
Gesellschaft.
Architekturtheorie.

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Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Architecture, memory and place

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274977
Call No.: BIB 208954
Status: Available

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