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 books 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.
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