Meaning, Memory and Amnesia | uniformnovember
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Meaning, Memory and Amnesia | uniformnovember
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
Arturo Escobar • Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Kei Kreutler, in Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity, reframes cultural memory systems—rituals, archives, architectures—not as storehouses of facts, but as technologies of orientation. Their purpose is to help agents navigate an overwhelming and shifting landscape of relevance. Memory in this sense is not for preservation but for direction—for
... See morePhilosophers and practitioners of architecture have long studied the relationship between physical spaces and ritual, ritual and the creation of culture, culture and the embodiment of thought.
It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more
It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more