Presenting difficult pasts through architecture : converting Nazi perpetrators' sites to documentation centers / Rumiko Handa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021Description: 210 pages 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780367217617
  • 9780367217624
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Presenting difficult pasts through architectureDDC classification:
  • 720.943 H37 2021 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.H55 H37 2021
Contents:
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.
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.
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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.

"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.

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