Title & Author:

Spatial recall : memory in architecture and landscape / Marc Treib, editor.

Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2009.

Description:

xv, 268 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contributors -- Introduction / Marc Treib -- Body. 1. Space, place, memory, and imagination : the temporal dimension of existential space / Juhani Pallasmaa -- 2. Re-creating the past : notes on the neurology of memory / Susan Schwartzenberg -- 3. The place of memory / Donlyn Lyndon -- 4. Indelible marker, palimpsest, thin air / Alice Aycock -- Landscape. 5. Rivers, meanders, and memory / Matt Kondolf -- 6. Displacements : canals, rivers, and flows / Georges Descombes -- 7. Land, cows, and pyramids / Adriaan Geuze -- Building. 8. The Mediterranean cemetery : landscape as collective memory / Luigi Latini -- 9. The place of place in memory / Esther da Costa Meyer -- 10. Remembering ruins, ruins remembering / Marc Treib -- 11. The memory industry and its discontents : the death and life of a keyword / Andrew Shanken -- 12. Mnemonic value and historic preservation / Jorge Otero-Pailos -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary:

This beautifully illustrated work contains essays from renowned international contributors giving a variety of perspectives of the role of memory in the built environment, how we have read it in the past and how we can create it in the future. Essays range from broad topics of message and audience to specific ones of landscape production.

ISBN:

0415777356 (hbk.)
9780415777353 (hbk.)
0415777364 (pbk.)
9780415777360 (pbk.)

Subject:

Space (Architecture) Psychological aspects.
Architecture and society.
Landscapes Psychological aspects.
Landscapes Symbolic aspects.
Collective memory.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect psychologique.
Architecture et société.
Paysages Aspect psychologique.
Paysages Aspect symbolique.
Mémoire collective.
Architektur
Landschaft
Psychologie
Landscape Psychological aspects.
Landscape Symbolic aspects.
Arkitektur och samhälle.
Kollektivt minne.
Rummet (arkitektur) psykologiska aspekter.
Landskap psykologiska aspekter.
Landskap symboliska aspekter.
Architettura del paesaggio aspetti simbolici.
Paesaggio memoria collettiva.

Added entries:

Treib, Marc.
Pallasmaa, Juhani
Schwartzenberg, Susan
Lyndon, Donlyn
Aycock, Alice
Kondolf, G. Mathias
Descombes, Georges, 1939-
Geuze, A. (Adriaan), 1960-
Latini, Luigi
Meyer, Esther da Costa, 1947-
Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-
Otero-Pailos, Jorge

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263388
Call No.: NA2765 .S62 2009
Status: Available