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Ruins : abandoned places, haunted memories

Ruins : abandoned places, haunted memories. keffie feldman weiss. SPOLIA: - out of context - spoils of war - briccolage - reuse/recycling multiple motivations for the practice, but can be recognized as identifiable practice despite varying motivations. Mauerspechte: ‘wallpeckers’

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Ruins : abandoned places, haunted memories

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  1. Ruins: abandoned places, haunted memories keffie feldman weiss

  2. SPOLIA: - out of context - spoils of war - briccolage - reuse/recycling multiple motivations for the practice, but can be recognized as identifiable practice despite varying motivations

  3. Mauerspechte: ‘wallpeckers’ Meaning and memory, material, authenticity

  4. Arch of Constantine: the fragmentation of architecture or an architecture of fragmentation?

  5. Architectural historians focus on the originary moment of architectural space, but an architecture of memory considers the afterlife (or continuing) life of buildings… The Parthenon, Athens

  6. …From the whole to the fragment… …Fragments need imagination to work

  7. Nostalgia – for the complete monument or for the moment of destruction?

  8. POMPEII Archaeologist’s paradise or “city of the dead, city of the dead…”?

  9. Ruins are ideal: the perceiver’s attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say that ruins are a way of seeing - RobertHarbison 1992: 99

  10. Archaeology as a way of seeing…

  11. Archaeology as a way of seeing…

  12. Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii

  13. Re-imagining the past

  14. Sophia Schliemann

  15. Hetertopias are marginal spaces that are linked to our everyday spaces but act outside of them as counter-sites, privileged, sacred, forbidden places, that either work to create illusions that expose real space or compensate for those things our real places are not.

  16. Since the original use of ruined buildings has passed, there are limitless possibilities for encounters with the weird, with inscrutable legends inscribed on notice boards and signs, and with peculiar things and curious spaces which allow wide scope for imaginative interpretation, unencumbered by the assumptions which weigh heavily on highly encoded, regulated space. -Tim Edensor 2005:4

  17. -ruined space is ripe with transgressive and transcendentpossibilities- - Tim Edensor

  18. Rocky Point Amusement Park

  19. Rocky Beach

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