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Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a
building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to
create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original
state indefinitely, viewing any subsequent alterations as
unintended effects or the results of degeneration. The ideal is for
a piece of architecture to remain permanently perfect and complete.
This contrasts sharply with reality where changes take place as
people move in, requirements change, events happen, and building
materials are subject to wear and tear. Rumiko Handa argues it is
time to correct this imbalance. Using examples ranging from the
Roman Coliseum to Japanese tea rooms, she draws attention to an
area that is usually ignored: the allure of incomplete, imperfect
and impermanent architecture. By focusing on what happens to
buildings after they are 'complete', she shows that the 'afterlife'
is in fact the very 'life' of a building. However, the book goes
beyond theoretical debate. Addressing professionals as well as
architecture students and educators, it persuades architects of the
necessity to anticipate possible future changes and to incorporate
these into their original designs.
Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past
present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings
and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this
comparative analysis, Rumiko Handa establishes the critical role
architectural designs play in presenting difficult pasts by
examining documentation centers on National Socialism in Germany.
Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture analyzes four
centers - Cologne, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Munich - from the point
of view of their shared intent to make the past present at National
Socialists' perpetrator sites. Applying original frameworks, Handa
considers what more architectural design could do toward meaningful
representations and interpretations of difficult pasts. This book
is a must-read for students, practitioners, and academics
interested in how architectural design can participate in
presenting the difficult pasts of historical places in meaningful
ways.
Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past
present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings
and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this
comparative analysis, Rumiko Handa establishes the critical role
architectural designs play in presenting difficult pasts by
examining documentation centers on National Socialism in Germany.
Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture analyzes four
centers - Cologne, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Munich - from the point
of view of their shared intent to make the past present at National
Socialists' perpetrator sites. Applying original frameworks, Handa
considers what more architectural design could do toward meaningful
representations and interpretations of difficult pasts. This book
is a must-read for students, practitioners, and academics
interested in how architectural design can participate in
presenting the difficult pasts of historical places in meaningful
ways.
Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a
building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to
create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original
state indefinitely, viewing any subsequent alterations as
unintended effects or the results of degeneration. The ideal is for
a piece of architecture to remain permanently perfect and complete.
This contrasts sharply with reality where changes take place as
people move in, requirements change, events happen, and building
materials are subject to wear and tear. Rumiko Handa argues it is
time to correct this imbalance. Using examples ranging from the
Roman Coliseum to Japanese tea rooms, she draws attention to an
area that is usually ignored: the allure of incomplete, imperfect
and impermanent architecture. By focusing on what happens to
buildings after they are 'complete', she shows that the 'afterlife'
is in fact the very 'life' of a building. However, the book goes
beyond theoretical debate. Addressing professionals as well as
architecture students and educators, it persuades architects of the
necessity to anticipate possible future changes and to incorporate
these into their original designs.
In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the
nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical
consciousness, a period that saw the birth of modern
historiography, a profusion of historical novels and paintings, and
the widespread production of historical plays. Historical
buildings, in themselves already of intense interest to people of
the day, also found their way into the multiplying cultural forms
as concrete presences anchoring a novelist's, poet's, painter's,
or, eventually, filmmaker's vision of the past. In recent years a
number of blockbuster films have used historically significant
buildings as filming locations because buildings can concretely
bring a former era or fictional world closer to contemporary
viewers. "Conjuring the Real" traces the genealogy of this
representational role of architecture, going back through the
history of film and then further in literature, art, and theater.
The contributors examine the ways in which authors, artists, and
stage managers used complex depictions of buildings to feed and
shape the audience's historical imagination. How can we understand
the significance of architecture, not through its original design
and construction but through the ways in which the public
experiences, perceives, and understands it? The contributors pursue
this question through the ideas of secondary portrayers of
historical buildings, such as writers and artists, and then through
the responses of those who read and view these creations.
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