States have long been active in commissioning architecture, which affords one way to embed political projects within socially meaningful cultural forms. Such state-led ...
Continue Reading →Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of ‘forgetting’, and how modern society ...
Continue Reading →Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of ‘forgetting’, and how modern society ...
Continue Reading →Rising on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a tiered bronze ...
Continue Reading →‘Building in Words’ deals with the process of construction in Roman imperial literature from Vergil to the second century AD. The first part ...
Continue Reading →Memory and Modernity focuses on the first project of the renowned nineteenth-century French architect and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, the restoration of the Romanesque ...
Continue Reading →This is the first comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture to be published in the English language. Designed ...
Continue Reading →Lina Bolzoni’s impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original ...
Continue Reading →The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art critic and theorist ...
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