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2 - The Dual Role of Memorial Architecture

from Part I - Scaffolding Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2019

Sabina Tanović
Affiliation:
Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
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In this chapter, the private and public roles of memorial architecture are addressed in respect to three relevant topics: collective remembrance and competing memories, the process of bereavement, and the possibilities of architecture as an element of agency in remembering and dealing with a difficult past. Since rituals are articulated through space, the investigation then turns towards a distinction of underlining spatial concepts that are essential in modern memorial architecture. The commemorative potential of cemeteries and landscapes is explored in a brief analysis of the symbolic language and transitional qualities of both funerary and memorial architecture.

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Designing Memory
The Architecture of Commemoration in Europe, 1914 to the Present
, pp. 77 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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