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Chambers for A Memory Palace (Paperback, New Ed)
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Chambers for A Memory Palace (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The MIT Press
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This ode to the spirit of place consists of an exchange of letters
in which one author recalls and the other responds to the elements
considered essential to the art of successful place-making. Each of
the book's chapters forms a chamber, and each chamber is inscribed
with the authors' personal observations. This collaboration between
two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a joyous
celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the
role that design has played in giving these places their memorable
qualities. It is also an invitation to readers to inhabit the
chambers of the book with their own imaginations to join in the
making of the Memory Palace proposed. The authors' informal, witty,
and anecdotal style extends to the illustrations-the freehand
travel sketches, line drawings, and watercolors of places they have
remembered and enjoyed. Chambers for a Memory Palace consists of an
exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other
responds to the elements considered essential to the art of
successful place-making. Each of the book's chapters forms a
chamber, and each chamber is inscribed with personal observations
on the composition of places and the architectural elements central
to each building, garden, court, monument, or open space described.
The examples considered in these dialogues range from classic
Western tradition to Asian temples and Islamic tombs, from ancient
ruins to modern cities. In "Axes that Reach/Paths that Wander,"
Lyndon and Moore discuss the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield
Hills, the Taj Mahal in Agra, Vaux le Vicomte in France, the
Beverly Hills Civic Center, and the Kimbell Museum in Forth Worth.
In "Orchards that Measure/Pilasters that Temper," they consider the
rhythmic spacing of elements in the Mosque at Cordoba, the
Cathedral at Bourges, the thousand-pillared mandapas of South
Indian temples, the facades of Schauspielhaus in Berlin, and the
Seagram building in New York City. They use these and many other
examples to illustrate the ways in which architecture, experience,
and memory intertwine to help us experience events and places.
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