Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape

by Marc Treib (Editor), Marc Treib (Editor)

This beautifully illustrated work contains essays from renowned international contributors giving a variety of perspectives of the role of memory in the built environment, how we have read it in the past and how we can create it in the future. Essays range from broad topics of message and audience to specific ones of landscape production.

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction, Landscape Architecture

268 pages, Hardcover

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.