Making Meaning Out of the Memory of Architecture
This project explores the intersection of a memory of architecture and an architecture of memory. Architecture and memory exist analogically in an essential, yet largely provisional, relationship which is given meaning by a productive practice of making, doing, living, and being, and is undertaken by both designer and user as they engage their individual memories and experiences. And memory, as an elemental component in our connection to the world, will always be important to the ways in which we find meaning in the buildings and spaces we interact with. To make meaning in architecture is to begin a creative practice which organizes past experiences, present actions, and future desires into significance at any given moment. In this way, memory and architecture are not posited as fixed entities which always mean one thing or another, but are endowed with a degree of flexibility in their ability to hold meaning in our lives.
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This work is a reconfigured and condensed version of my 2002 master’s thesis: Meaning Building: Aldo Rossi and the Practice of Memory.
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