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The affecting experiences of buildings, cities or landscapes are frequently given as examples of involuntary memory, of memories that are the more precious for arising unwilled. Such buildings and places are commonly thought to provoke not only the recollections of the individual but a kind of collective memory, for example of the antiquity of culture. The power of stories of origin rely not so much on the facts of origin as the agreement to collectively remember, and thus transform. What then is the work of the architectural historian and the will to remember, or the architect who attempts to build within the memory structure of a culture?

Memory and Architecture: investing, constructing and housing recollection, Michael J. Ostwald (Memory Introductory Essay)

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Graham Crist
Six Doubts About Architecture

Sean Flanagan
The Weissenhofsiedlung and the House for Dr. Christ

Shaji Panicker & Michael J. Ostwald
Underlying Ethos in Indian Architecture: Critical Regionalism in the age of Globalisation

Sam Ridgway
Starting from Scratch: building the Meridien Bank in Lusaka

Rory Spence
Communal Memory: two memorial projects by Richard Leplastrier

Nicole Sully
The Privileged Place of Home: place, memory and the disease of nostalgia

Reena Tiwari
Translating Memories into Memorials by a Performing Body

Rachel Trigg
City as Storehouse: the framing of memory in the East Perth Cemeteries

Pieter Uyttenhove
The Town of Givors, Substratum of Tony Garnier’s Cité Industrielle

Roxanna Waterson
Getting Lost: amnesia and resistance in the transformation of places and place names in Singapore

Nigel Westbrook & Karina Sunk
Site and Ascription: the Octagon within the Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors

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