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Perspecta 48

Cover of Perspecta 48: Amnesia

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9780262528122
Published
2015 MIT Press
Editor
Aaron Dresben
Teo Quintana
Andrea Leung
Edward Hsu
Designer
Marina Mills Kitchen
Chris Svensson

Purchase $ Perspecta 48 at MIT Press

Architecture, the most durable of the arts, is inextricably linked to issues of memory, nostalgia, and history. Yet, in this impatient century, the discipline’s relationship to the past has become increasingly fraught. The stream of readily accessible information has trapped us in a perpetual present, and our attention spans have been reduced to 140-character bursts. As archives overflow and data multiplies, these accumulating facts lack any theory of significance. Is history still relevant in a media landscape where time passes at an accelerated pace?

This issue of Perspecta—the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America—proposes that amnesia, often seen as a destructive force, might also be understood as a productive one, that the gaps it creates might also provide spaces for invention. Contributions from a diverse group of scholars, artists, and practitioners explore the paradoxical nature of amnesia: How can forgetfulness be both harmful and generative? What will we borrow or abandon from yesterday to confront tomorrow? What sort of critical genealogies can be repurposed, suppressed, or manufactured to reenergize current practice? How might we construct counter-narratives, rebel histories, and alternative canons that are relevant to our present moment?

Perspecta 48 considers the uses and abuses of history and ignites a debate about the role of memory in architecture.

Contents

Karsten Harries—The two faces of nostalgia

David Chipperfield—Notes on the New National Gallery

Saskia Sassen—Making presence

Edward Eigen—Dredging up the unknown: interpretive notes on Edward Forbes’s Aegean expedition

Russell Thomsen—The future of Auschwitz

Mario Carpo—Big data and the end of history

TJ Demos—Painting and uprising: Julie Mehretu’s third space

Sam Jacob—Put the needle on the record

Anthony Vidler—Platonic paradigms: a memory of the School of Athens

Maria Shéhérazade Giudici—From theater of memory to framework for memories: John Soane’s museums

Marco Frascari—The ambiguity of non-finito architecture: the deceiving of time

Kyle Dugdale—They too were silent

Richard Mosse—Come out (1966)

Esra Akcan—Open architecture as adventure game: John Hejduk in a noncitizen district

Stanislaus von Moos—Ruin count: Le Corbusier and European reconstruction

Matt Roman—You are how you collect

Andrew Kovacs—Archive of affinities

Gary Leggett—The three to five points of architectural photography

Sylvia Lavin—Today we collect everything

Iwan Baan—62nd Shikinen Sengu

Amale Andraos—New Holland Island: strategies of the void

Stephan Petermann & OMA/AMO—Gütersloh ice core drilling

Hans Ulrich Obrist—In conversation