The past as foundation for a new memory

The past as foundation for a new memory: Architecture as a form-giver of memories

van Eerten, Sacha (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Komossa, Susanne (mentor)
Deboutte, Niklaas (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2019-07-02

Raising the awareness of history and embedding the past in the present and thus the future is one of the urgent challenges of our time. Architecture can constitute a powerful bridge with the past. A building for the public is proposed, to strengthen the memory of the past while connecting with the present in Prague. Recent political turmoil once again demonstrates the great significance of history and emphasises the necessity of constructing an edifice on a location which has the burden of the past. History is a continuous process and the past can be immensely absent in the presence. But constructions are concrete and present. The remnants are a physical and undeniable concrete manifestation of history. But even then a narrative is required, just as attention and interest are necessary.

Public Building
memorial
Public sphere
Communist past

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Student theses

master thesis

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