On Memory and Architecture

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Stacey Hopkins

Document Type

Thesis Prep

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 1996

Keywords

architecture and memory, perception, architecture and time, experience, gallery design, Rochester

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

"The symbiotic relationship between architecture and memory is forged in each one's appropriation of the other to make connection in space and time; the fragmentation between present and past disappears as one place, through imagery, unites with another. Memory and architecture relate to one another in that they use man's perception of and empathy with imagery to recall particulars of place, the connection of one place to others, and the way that these connections might explain time in tangible terms. For memory, architecture symbolizes a point of reference in time - a proscenium against which experience can be recalled; in architecture, memory reveals the essence of form which allows the built environment to lend itself to human spatial comprehension."

Additional Information

Advisors: Francisco Sanin / Lea Ciavarra / Randall Korman

Recommended Citation

Hopkins, Stacey, "On Memory and Architecture" (1996). Architecture Thesis Prep. 167.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/167

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