Memory and Architecture

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Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, Memory and Architecture examines the role of memory in the creation of our built environment. The book is divided into four parts. “Designing National Memories” examines the ways institutions and individuals construct national memory in American, German and Brazilian experience. “Literary Memory Spaces” focuses on the treatment of place in literature, exploring the experiences of two South Asian women who return to their homelands to discover changes in their native landscape, and such places as the Old Cemetery in Tel Aviv, images of the Turkish house, and the cities of Thessaloniki and Istanbul. “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” considers the ways memory may apply to the teaching of architecture, and examines the state of architectural education, memory and teaching methodology, and the relationship between the spaces of architecture and the spaces of literature. Edited by Eleni Bastéa JACKET PHOTOS:©1996 Susan Hicks Bryant jacket front top and flap, Cloister, Convento de San Bernardino de Sisal; jacket front bottom and back, El Palacio, Palenque JACKET BACKGROUND: Jim Ward Morris / Artville JACKET DESIGN: Kathleen Sparkes University of New Mexico Press unmpress.com 800-249-7737 A RCHITECTURE Memory and A R C H I T E C T U R E B A S T É A Eleni Bastéa is associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. About the contributors Carel Bertram is assistant professor, humanities, San Francisco State University. Thomas Fisher is professor and dean, architecture and landscape architecture, University of Minnesota. Christine Gorby is architect and assistant professor, department of architecture, Pennsylvania State University. Catherine Hamel is an artist and assistant professor of environmental design, University of Calgary, Canada. Rachel Hurst and Jane Lawrence teach in the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of South Australia. Mark Jarzombek is associate professor, history, theory, and criticism, department of architecture, MIT. Sabir Khan is associate professor and associate dean of undergraduate studies, architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology. Fernando Lara is an architect and associate professor, graduate program in architecture, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Maria de Lourdes Luz is dean, school of design and visual arts, Veiga de Almeida University, Rio de Janeiro. Barbara Mann is assistant professor, Hebrew literature and Jewish studies, Princeton University. V. B. Price teaches in the honors program, University of New Mexico. Eric Sandweiss is Carmony Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington. Ana Lucia Vieira dos Santos is a professor at the school of design and visual arts, Veiga de Almeida University, Rio de Janeiro. Sheona Thomson teaches architecture, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. ISBN 0-8263-3269-2 Memory and Architecture ...