Remembrance Now: 21st Century Memorial Architecture by Woodger, Michele

Remembrance Now: 21st Century Memorial Architecture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848224568)

Vendor: Michele Woodger
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Format: Hardcover
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Remembrance Now: 21st Century Memorial Architecture by Woodger, Michele

Remembrance Now: 21st Century Memorial Architecture

$89.99
Remembrance Now: 21st Century Memorial Architecture by Woodger, Michele

Remembrance Now: 21st Century Memorial Architecture

$89.99
Format: Hardcover
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Memorials have long been an important part of our built environments. In recent decades, there have been enormous changes in who and what we commemorate, and how. This increasing need for unique and sensitive memorials opens up new creative horizons for architects tasked with translating complex subjects and feelings into emotive spatial experiences that are as memorable as they are commemorative. This book showcases 45 contemporary memorials dating from since the beginning of the 21st century. Hauntingly eloquent, or starkly confrontational, each example highlights the effectiveness of such structures in focusing society's consciousness on important and diverse issues. From Argentina to New Zealand, Comoros to South Korea, the memorials represent a wide geographical spread, and each interacts in original and surprising ways with its context. Interspersed with the memorials are interviews with leading international architects, including Carmody Groarke, MASS Design Group, Michael Arad, Moshe Safdie, Philippe Prost and others. Their words offer insights into how architects have given form to such abstract concepts as loss, love, permanence, peace, justice, hope and memory itself.

Author: Michele Woodger, Tszwai So
ISBN-10: 1848224567
ISBN-13: 9781848224568
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2023
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.88lbs
Size: 10.13h x 7.75w x 0.75d
By Michele Woodger
By Michele Woodger
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Mich鑞e Woodger is an architecture and design journalist based in London. She writes for RIBA Journal and for C3 Magazine (where she is contributing editor) and has also written for Pulp, Eye Magazine, Forum Magazine, and the Lettering and Commemorative Arts Trust. During her career at the RIBA she was awarded the Gordon Ricketts Memorial grant for her research into lettering in London's memorial landscape. Tszwai So is an award-winning architect, who co-founded Spheron Architects in 2011 and completed the Belarusian Memorial Chapel in 2017 (winner of the World Architecture Festival Awards 2018). His memorial designs and emotionally charged drawings have earned him critical acclaim internationally. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, a member of Harrow Design Review Panel, a journalist for RIBA Journal, and a steering committee member of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage.

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