Remembrance Now

21st-Century Memorial Architecture

Michèle Woodger, Tszwai So, Isabelle Priest

$202.95 $162.08

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
08 May 2023

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Architectural structure & design; Memorials, monuments

Memorials have long been an important part of our built environments. In recent decades, there have been enormous changes in who and what we commemorate, and how. This increasing need for unique and sensitive memorials opens up new creative horizons for architects tasked with translating complex subjects and feelings into emotive spatial experiences that are as memorable as they are commemorative.

This book showcases 45 contemporary memorials dating from since the beginning of the 21st century. Hauntingly eloquent, or starkly confrontational, each example highlights the effectiveness of such structures in focusing society’s consciousness on important and diverse issues. From Argentina to New Zealand, Comoros to South Korea, the memorials represent a wide geographical spread, and each interacts in original and surprising ways with its context.

Interspersed with the memorials are interviews with leading international architects, including Carmody Groarke, MASS Design Group, Michael Arad, Moshe Safdie, Philippe Prost and others. Their words offer insights into how architects have given form to such abstract concepts as loss, love, permanence, peace, justice, hope and memory itself.

By: Michèle Woodger, Tszwai So
Foreword by: Isabelle Priest
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 18mm
ISBN: 9781848224568
ISBN 10: 1848224567
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 08 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michèle Woodger is an architecture and design journalist based in London. She writes for RIBA Journal and for C3 Magazine (where she is contributing editor) and has also written for Pulp, Eye Magazine, Forum Magazine and the Lettering and Commemorative Arts Trust. During her career at the RIBA she was awarded the Gordon Ricketts Memorial grant for her research into lettering in London’s memorial landscape. Tszwai So is an award-winning artist and architect from London. He is the founder of Spheron Architects, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster. His notable memorial projects include the Belarusian Memorial Chapel in London and the Pan-European Memorial for Victims of Totalitarianism in Brussels. So's artworks are in the collections of the V&A museum and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and his art film E-motion-Al City, premiered at the Venice Biennale 2021.