Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place

by Shelley Hornstein

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 remember best when we experience an event in a place. But what happens when we leave that place, or that place no longer exists? This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It explores how architecture exists as a material...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140940871X
• ISBN13: 9781409408710
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.7"