از دست دادن سایت: معماری، حافظه و مکان (مطالعات اشگیت در معماری)

As Ruskin suggests in his "Seven Lamps of Architecture": 'We may live within [architecture], and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her.' We remember best when we experience an event in a place. But what happens when we leave that place, or that place no longer exists? This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It explores how architecture exists as a physical entity and how it registers as a place that we come to remember beyond the physical site itself. It questions what architecture is in the broadest sense, assuming that it is not simply buildings. Rather, architecture is considered to be the mapping of physical, mental or emotional space. The idea that we are all architects in some measure - as we actively organize and select pathways and markers within space - is central to this book's premise. Each chapter provides a different example of the manifold ways in which the physical place of architecture is curated by the architecture in our 'mental' space: our imaginary toolbox when we think of a place and look at a photograph, or visit a site and describe it later or send a postcard. By connecting architecture with other disciplines such as geography, visual culture, sociology, and urban studies, as well as the fine and performing arts, this book puts forward the idea that a conversation about architecture is not exclusively about formal, isolated buildings, but instead must be deepened and broadened as spatialized visualizations and experiences of place. As Ruskin suggests in his Seven Lamps of Architecture: "We may live without [architecture], and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her." We remember best when we experience an event in a place. But what happens when we leave that place, or that place no longer exists? This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It explores how architecture exists as a material object and how it registers as a place that we come to remember beyond the physical site itself. It questions what architecture is in the broadest sense, assuming that it is not simply buildings. Rather, architecture is considered to be the mapping of physical, mental or emotional space. The idea that we are all architects in some measure - as we actively organize and select pathways and markers within space - is central to this book's premise. Each chapter provides a different example of the manifold ways in which the physical place of architecture is curated by the architecture in our "mental" space: our imaginary toolbox when we think of a place and look at a photograph, or visit a site and describe it later or send a postcard. By connecting architecture with other disciplines such as geography, visual culture, sociology, and urban studies, as well as the fine and performing arts, this book puts forward the idea that a conversation about architecture is not exclusively about formal, isolated buildings, but instead must be deepened and broadened as spatialized visualizations and experiences of place. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 Marking Site: Walter Benjamin was Here......Page 30 Memorializing Site: On the Grounds of History......Page 40 Transporting Sites: Israel, Postcards and Nation-Building1......Page 76 Destroyed Sites: Places and Things Inside Out......Page 96 Curating Site: Museums, Itineraries and Networks Beyond Borders......Page 118 Erasing Sites: Spies on the Other Side of the Full Moon......Page 132 Finding Site......Page 142 Bibliography......Page 166 Index......Page 178 Introduction : losing site Marking site : Walter Benjamin was here Memorializing site : on the grounds of history Transporting site : postcards of Israel and nation-building Destroying site : houses and objects, inside out Curating site : museums, itineraries and networks beyond borders Erasing site : spies on the other side of the full moon Conclusion : finding site. 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