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Memory In Architecture

Memory in Architecture

By Leo WANG

People in diverse cultures often have different observation and ways of dealing with similar issues. Memory in architecture, as a communication tools between history, present or even future has been discussed and expressed in various perspectives. In the following text, idea generated by Frederick Mote and Pierre in Chinese approach towards their past will be discussed parallel to Alois Riegl and Stanford Anderson's analysis on western monumentality. A pacific example of Chinese architecture, Ise Shrines will also be introduced in order to help build the connection between western and Asian culture.

Fluidity of Spirit

However, the influence of creation by memory in China is not always being observed in a "physical" way. Rather, the fluidness of civilization is expressed as "spiritual presence". [1] In F.W. Mote's observation, China's urban history operates the flux of memory through an "unphysical" way. "The past was a past of words not......


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