architecture of memory final

How do libeskins museum designs break from musicological precedents or conventions and why

His Jewish museum uses zig zags as it adds voids and tilted walls which shows the Germans fractured history, the void shows absence and loss, the axial routes the tree pathways show different historic trajectories and they’re not just chronological displays and telling a story straightforward rather challenge those to make the impact unavoidable…

How the red location museum also breaks from conventions

The memory boxes all have a theme and their is no sequence, encouraging active participation, not one authoritative story, the raw materials bind the working class past, emphasizes fragmented memories yet a collective trama that all works together

How the libeskinds Jewish museum integrates history of holocaust and how does it rep diff aspects of Jewish history

What is apartheid and its lingering effects in South African and how do they impact attempts to commemorate or heal

It enforced racial segregation and economic inequality as well as systematic violence, it disrupted families and increased amounts of poverty and to commemorate, their museam shows chronological exhibits that are used to educated

How do the apartheid, Johannesburg and red location new Brighton present history of apartheid and how do their approaches differ

Apartheid was a system of racial segreagation enforced by the South African government in mid-late 1900s. Had laws based on racial groups about where people could lie, work, or socialize. The Johannesburg uses architecture to make you feel the impacts, confronts racial segregation at the entrence, original photos telling the stories. Reds location in new Brighton uses the boxes, chooses ur own path, focuses less on reconciliation and more on hero’s and community

What arguments have been made for and against the removal of confederate monuments and memorials from public spaces in the US

Removal: glorifies slavery and white supremacy and oppression, makes the spaces feel hostile and unwelcoming, effected in times of racial tension, steps toward racial justice rather than erasing history. Against removal: prevents society from learning from its past mistakes, reminders of complex history and preserved for educational purposes, add plaues for full historical understanding

The difficulties with adding context to these monuments

Statues are designed to be seen and not read, expensive and time consuming, maybe not as effective

Why did modern architects opposed monuments and how did their objections related to earlier Moments of iconoclasm in the US

They opposed traditional monuments becuase they’re associated with nationalism and outdated forms of supremacy,

Why did the modernist approach to nomuemnts change after ww2

After ww2pople wanted to explore more abstract and open minded monuments that engaged viewers and were more interactive rather than figures of hero’s

What’s a living memorial

Interactive, involves events or spaces that show communities engaging, not stoic, transformative

What’s an anti monument and how does the Vietnam veterans memorial show this

Instead of glorifying past deeds or presenting a unified narrative, they use minimalist forms to show loss or absence, invite personal interpretation

How does the Vietnam veternans memorial respond to modernist iconoclasm

The museum has black granite walls that has names without heroic imagery or political statements, allows for individual mourning rather than saying how the war should be remembered

How does the Vietnam veterans memorial relate to earlier monuments on the national mall

Li non or washing materials use classical forms and heroic symbolism but this is abstract and horizontal which does physically point to both Lincoln and Washington but it is for reflection not admiring a “hero”