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Losing Site : Architecture, Memory and Place.
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Losing Site : Architecture, Memory and Place.

Author: Hornstein, Shelley
Publisher: Ashgate 2011.
Series: Ashgate studies in architecture
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It examines how architecture exists as a physical entity and how it registers as a place that we come to remember, as well as whether it can exist or be found beyond the physical site itself in our recollection of it.
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Genre/Form: Electronic resource
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
(DLC) 2011005821
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Hornstein, Shelley
ISBN: 1409408728 9781409408727 9781409408710 140940871X 1283158035 9781283158039
OCLC Number: 743204156
Description: 1 online resource (182)
Contents: Introduction : losing site --
Marking site : Walter Benjamin was here --
Memorializing site : on the grounds of history --
Transporting site : postcards of Israel and nation-building --
Destroying site : houses and objects, inside out --
Curating site : museums, itineraries and networks beyond borders --
Erasing site : spies on the other side of the full moon --
Conclusion : finding site.
Series Title: Ashgate studies in architecture

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'In Losing Site Hornstein takes us on a dizzying pilgrimage from the Guggenheim to Google Earth, from Toronto to Tel Aviv, showing along the way how architecture, place, and memory work together in Read more...

 
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