Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape

by Marc Treib (editor)

Architecture and designed landscapes serve as grand mnemonic devices that record and transmit vital aspects of culture and history. Spatial Recall casts a broad net over the concept of memory and gives a variety of perspectives from twelve internationally noted scholars, practicing designers, and artists such as Juhani Pallasmaa, Adriaan Geuze, Susan Schwartzenberg, Georges Descombes and Esther da Costa Meyer.Essays range from broad topics of message and audience to specific ones of landscape production. Beautifully illustrated, Spatial Recall is a comprehensive view of memory in the built environment, how we have read it in the past, and how we can create it in the future.Please note this is book is now printed digitally.

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction, Landscape Architecture

268 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2009

Reviews

[Yen Linh T Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

One the best collection of essays I’ve read so far

[Marika · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a collection of essays, this book is a little bit hit or miss. Some of the essays were quite relevant to the topic of collective and individual memory in terms of place and space, while others were more "how and why I built what I built" explanations. Thankfully, the portions that are good, are very, very good and more than make up for essays that are a bit thin on topical discussion. Definitely a good read with much to think about.

[Ash Ebrahim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of informative essays that actually helped me on my Theory of Architecture presentation on Body, Memory and Architecture
Not all essays are equally good in the terms of their quality but as a person who is not a fan of essays this was quiet gripping.