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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-04-28 - Publisher: MIT Press

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The poems of an architect whose affection for urban reality and imagined space is as evident in his writing as in his buildings and drawings. The poems of John
Remembering Places
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Pages: 183
Authors: Janet Donohoe
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-18 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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This book is a phenomenological investigation of the interrelations of tradition, memory, place and the body. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegg
Losing Site
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Dr Shelley Hornstein
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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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 rem
Places of Public Memory
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Greg Dickinson
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-02 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And alth
The Memory Palace
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Edward Hollis
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-28 - Publisher: Catapult

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A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to t