This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into tangible structures, creating spaces for remembering. Using approaches from history, psychology, anthropology and sociology, Sabina Tanovi? explores purposes behind creating contemporary memorials in a given location, their translation into architectural concepts, their materialisation in the face of social and political challenges, and their influence on the transmission of memory. Covering the period from the First World War to the present, she looks at memorials such as the Holocaust museums in Mechelen and Drancy, as well as memorials for the victims of terrorist attacks, to unravel the private and public role of memorial architecture and the possibilities of architecture as a form of agency in remembering and dealing with a difficult past. The result is a distinctive contribution to the literature on history and memory, and on architecture as a link to the past.
| ISBN: | 9781108486521 |
| Publication date: | 28th November 2019 |
| Author: | Sabina (Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands) Tanovic |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Series: | Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare |
| Genres: |
Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings Modern warfare Military history Architecture Cognition and cognitive psychology Genocide and ethnic cleansing Architectural structure and design Theory of architecture Terrorism, armed struggle |