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Arch 1710 Architecture and Memory Spring 2009

Arch 1710 Architecture and Memory Spring 2009. Memory and Architecture: the art of remembering or forgetting? January 27, 2009. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, (1939) directed by William Dieterle. Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press (1439). Der moderne Buchdruck

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Arch 1710 Architecture and Memory Spring 2009

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  1. Arch 1710 Architecture and Memory Spring 2009 Memory and Architecture: the art of remembering or forgetting? January 27, 2009

  2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, (1939) directed by William Dieterle

  3. Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press (1439)

  4. Der moderne Buchdruck ('The Modern Book Printing‘) in Bebelplatz, Berlin. one of six sculture pieces created as part of 'The Walk of Ideas' initiative for the 2006 FA World Cup.

  5. Victor Hugo’s Protagonist in Notre Dame de Paris (1831) The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris (1163-1345)

  6. Divrigi Great Mosque, Turkey , 13th c. AD. West Portal. architectonics of representation (geometry and inscriptions)

  7. Divrigi Great Mosque, Turkey , 13th c. AD. West Portal, detail architectonics of representation (geometry and inscriptions)

  8. Armenian Monastery in Akdamar Island in Lake Van, Eastern Turkey Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross (915-921 AD)

  9. Armenian Monastery in Akdamar Island in Lake Van, Eastern Turkey Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross (915-921 AD)

  10. Armenian Monastery in Akdamar Island in Lake Van, Eastern Turkey Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross (915-921 AD)

  11. Armenian Monastery in Akdamar Island in Lake Van, Eastern Turkey Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross (915-921 AD)

  12. Armenian Monastery in Akdamar Island in Lake Van, Eastern Turkey Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross (915-921 AD)

  13. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 691 AD.

  14. Mudbrick house advertising chicken sales, Eastern Syria, 20th c. AD.

  15. Batammaliba house, Benin- West Africa Inscription of the body on architectural surfaces Building surface and the poetics of the body

  16. Departure   Everything seen...The vision gleams in every air. Everything had... The far sound of cities, in the evening, In sunlight, and always. Everything known... O Tumult! O Visions! These are the stops of life. Departure in affection, and shining sounds. Arthur Rimbaud PNCA Building, Portland Oregon, with its facade as a transcription of an Arthur Rimbaud poem “Departure” into a language of differently sized squares and rectangles.

  17. PNCA Facade, Randy Higgins

  18. Arch of Titus, commemorating the capture and sack of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

  19. Arch of Titus, Rome

  20. Arch of Titus, commemorating the capture and sack of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

  21. monument, n. A statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a famous or notable person or event. Something that by its survival commemorates and distinguishes a person, action, period, event, etc.; something that serves as a memorial. [< classical Latin monumentum, monimentumcommemorative statue or building, tomb, reminder, written record, literary work < From: monereto remind + Compare Anglo-Norman monument tomb, Old French, Middle French, French monument (end of the 10th cent. in sense ‘tomb’, also in Old French as moniment; late 14th cent. in general sense ‘anything that preserves a memory of something’, 17th cent. in sense ‘lasting work of literature, science or art’, 18th cent. denoting edifices which are imposing by virtue of their grandeur or antiquity), Spanish monumento (1207), Portuguese monumento (a1284), Italian monumento (1292).   With sense 1, compare Welsh mynwent (< classical Latin monumentum) graveyard. With the phrase monuments of letters (see sense 3b), compare classical Latin monumenta litterarum. With sense 4d, compare earlier use of French monument of a work of literature (see above), and also use of classical Latin monumentum in Horace Odes 3.30.1, where the poet compares his literary work to a bronze monument.] Oxford English Dictionary

  22. 6.Sc. A ridiculous or objectionable person or thing; a laughing-stock, a fool, a rogue. 1866T. EDMONDSTONEtymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial., Moniment, a ridiculous person, a fool. 1871W. ALEXANDERJohnny Gibb xlix. 335 Oonless the ‘viackle’ saw ye ever sic a moniment o' a thing, Meg sud be..pitten o' the hen reist. 1922Swatches o' Hamespun 79 ‘Upsettin' moniment,’ snarled the middler, ‘pride gyangs afore a fa'.’ 1956Banffshire Advertiser 5 Apr. 8/5 ‘Ye young monniment,’ snarled the guardian of law and order, and charged.1968 G. M. WILLIAMS From Scenes like These ii. 30 ‘I cannae pay ye the full five pounds a week,’ he'd said, hairy-faced old monument that he was.1979 J. J. GRAHAM Shetland Dict. 53/2 Dere he was, waanderin aroond laek a moniment.

  23. Ruins as commemoration: Old Parthenon as a ruin in the 5th century Acropolis

  24. Athenian Acropolis in ealy 19th c.. Edward Dodwell, Views in Greece (1821)

  25. Parthenon and its historical “burdens”

  26. Stripped Parthenon and the Athenian Acropolis

  27. Alois Reigl The first Conservator General of monuments in the Austro-Hungarian Empire He wrote: “Monuments in the sense of this law are... works of the human hand since whose inception at least sixty years have passed.” (1903)

  28. Late Baroque classicizing: Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691-1765) assembles the canon of Roman ruins and Roman sculpture into one vast imaginary gallery Roma Antica 1755 Oil on canvas, 186 x 227 camStaatsgalerie, Stuttgart

  29. “A monument is what art history chooses to celebrate and proclaim a monument” and therefore deserves to be “preserved” (Nelson and Olin 2003: 2).

  30. Apartment before demolition, Rome, Italy

  31. Architecture: art of remembering or forgetting?

  32. MOVE: Police bombing of a West Philadelphia neighborhood, May 13, 1985

  33. Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, Washington DC

  34. Jochen Gerz, Monument against fascism October 10, 1986-November 10, 1993 Column of galvanized steel with a lead coating, 1200 x 100 x 100 cm, weight ca. 7 t., underground shaft with viewing window, depth 14 m, concrete footing, 2 steel styluses for signing the surface, text panel. Site: Hamburg-Harburg, Harburger Ring at the corner of Hölertwiete/Sand, Harburg-Rathaus S-line train station.

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