Sub-urbanism and the art of memory / Sébastien Marot.

Main entry:

Marot, Sébastien, 1961- author.

Title & Author:

Sub-urbanism and the art of memory / Sébastien Marot.

Edition:

AA Documents publication is a re-edition of the 2003 book by Sébastien Marot

Publication:

London : AA Publications, [2023]
©2023

Description:

127 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Series:

AA documents series

Notes:
"Architectural Association School of Architecture".
Edition statement from postscript.
Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"This book is a sub-urbanist manifesto. Its author, Sébastien Marot, challenges the dominant role of the programme in regulating the design project, and argues that instead attention should be redirected towards the site – the site read in depth, with an active regard for memory. Exploring this analysis, he considers in turn Frances Yates’ book The Art of Memory, Sigmund Freud’s analogy between the past of a city and the workings of memory, Robert Smithson’s account of a tour of his suburban birthplace and Georges Descombes’ design for a small park in the Geneva suburb where he spent his childhood. Marot’s conclusion brings these different strands together and highlights, in memory, a precept that is essential to the renewal of current architecture. This publication is a re-edition of Sébastien Marot’s 2003 book, originally edited by Pamela Johnston and based on a 1999 text by Marot, translated from the French by Brian Holmes." Publisher's website

ISBN:

9781999627782 paperback
1999627784

Subject:

City planning Philosophy.
Space (Architecture)
Place (Philosophy) in architecture.
Architecture Philosophy.
Memory (Philosophy)
Architecture Philosophie.
Mémoire (Philosophie)
Espace (Architecture)
Lieu (Philosophie) en architecture.
architectural theory.

Added entries:

AA documents.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321071
Call No.: 321071
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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