- Summary
- "Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to pre-existing 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 in Germany. Presenting Difficult Pasts through Architecture analyses four centers-Cologne, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Munich-and their shared intent to make material evidence of National Socialism involvement in authentic perpetrator sites which were part of both peaceful prior histories and current everyday life. Applying original frameworks, Handa considers what more architectural design could do toward meaningful representations and interpretations. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Online resource
- Author/Creator
- Handa, Rumiko, 1955- author.
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021
©2021
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Postwar rebuilding and coping with the past
Four documentation centers-histories
In the shadow of propaganda architecture
Presenting pasts through architecture : intellectual framework
Formal characteristics
Physical traces
Designation
Memento.
- Biography
- Rumiko Handa is Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. She holds a PhD in architectural theory from the University of Pennsylvania and a BArch from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her writings have appeared in: Montreal Architecture Review; Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture; The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Preservation Education & Research; Design Studies; and so on. She co-edited Conjuring the Real: The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. She is also the author of Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postwar rebuilding and coping with the past -- Four documentation centers-histories -- In the shadow of propaganda architecture -- Presenting pasts through architecture : intellectual framework -- Formal characteristics -- Physical traces -- Designation -- Memento.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2021).
