Description
Book SynopsisExamines the role of memory in the creation of our built environment, using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies. This book examines the ways institutions and individuals construct national memory. It focuses on the treatment of place in literature, and comprises three personal essays.
Table of ContentsFraming Urban Memory: The Changing Role of History Museums in the American City; Disguised Visibilities; Designed Memories: The Roots of Brazilian Modernism; Patrimony and Cultural Identity; Memory Work: The Reciprocal Framing of Self and Place in Emigre Autobiographies; Memory and Diaspora in Tel Aviv's Old Cemetery; Housing the Symbolic Universe in Early Republican Turkey: Architecture, Memory and ""the Felt Real""; Stories Cities: Literary Memories of Thessaloniki and Istanbul; Beirut, Exile and the Scars of Reconstruction; Diffused Spaces: A Sacred Study of West Belfast, Northern Ireland; Profaning Sacred Space: Los Angeles in New Mexico; What Memory? Whose Memory?; (Re)Placing, Remembering, Revealing: Understanding Through Memory and Making; Places within and without: Memory, the Literary Imagination, and the Project in the Design Studio; Index.
