Meaning, Memory and Amnesia

Meaning, Memory and Amnesia | uniformnovember

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architects are now taught to design houses, not homes, thus contributing to the uprooting that feeds into our growing inability to genuinely connect with the world. There is a “poetics of home”—linked to memory, emotions, dreams, identity, and intimacy—that functional architecture and “modern living” have foreclosed

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In The Image of the City (1960), Lynch identified the crucial role of the sense of place that ‘in itself enhances every human activity that occurs there and encourages the deposit of a memory trace’. This separation of ‘place’ in spirit and idea could, he argued, be differentiated physically and conceptually, as in edge, path, node, district and la... See more

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It is this final role of ‘architecture as register’ that has gone on to help underpin an evolution to a contemporary role of ‘architecture as peacebuilder’. Driessen argues “the built environment provides cues for behaviour, meaning that architecture too is a means of nonverbal communication.

Theory | uniformnovember

I was doing some research for a thought piece today on the importance of physical spaces for brands. And remembered the fantastic 'Eyes of the Skin' by Juhani Pallasmaa.

This quote in particular jumped out at me.

“The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.”

History has been gathered up and presented as heritage of a meaningful past that should be remembered and more and more buildings and other sites have been called on to act as witnesses of the past” (Macdonald 2009, p01).