'Treehouse'. Acrylic on 15 Canvas Boards. 72 x 90 inches. March 2011
'Institute'. Acrylic on 15 Boards. 72 x 90 inches. April 2010
Different places in
the urban landscape trigger memories of a shared past. But buildings are not
important just because they are buildings. Memories are attached to places
because of the social and political meanings people link to their physical form
and aesthetic beauty. These buildings, according to Hayden, “are store houses
for these social memories because streets, buildings, and patterns of
settlement, frame the lives of many people and often outlast many lifetimes.”
Individuals are able to make these specific connections with buildings because
they see familiar characteristics in architecture.
Memory and Identity: Destruction and Rebuilding- Gregory Dowell
Memory and Identity: Destruction and Rebuilding- Gregory Dowell
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