Ruins: abandoned places, haunted memories

keffie feldman weiss

SPOLIA: - out of context- spoils of war- briccolage- reuse/recycling

multiple motivations for the practice, but can be recognized as identifiable practice despite varying motivations

Mauerspechte: ‘wallpeckers’ Meaning and memory, material, authenticity

Arch of Constantine: the fragmentation of architecture or an architecture of fragmentation?

Architectural historians focus on the originary moment of architectural space, but an architecture of memory considers the afterlife (or continuing) life of buildings…

The Parthenon, Athens

…From the whole to the fragment…

…Fragments need imagination to work

Nostalgia – for the complete monument or for the moment of destruction?

Archaeologist’s paradise or “city of the dead, city of the dead…”?

POMPEII

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver’s attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say that ruins are a way of seeing

- Robert Harbison 1992: 99

Archaeology as a way of seeing…

Archaeology as a way of seeing…

Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii

Re-imagining the past

Sophia Schliemann

Hetertopias are marginal spaces that are linked to our everyday spaces but act outside of them as counter-sites, privileged, sacred, forbidden places, that either work to create illusions that expose real space or compensate for those things our real places are not.

Since the original use of ruined buildings has passed, there are limitless possibilities for encounters with the weird, with inscrutable legends inscribed on notice boards and signs, and with peculiar things and curious spaces which allow wide scope for imaginative interpretation, unencumbered by the assumptions which weigh heavily on highly encoded, regulated space.

-Tim Edensor 2005:4

-ruined space is ripe with transgressive and transcendent possibilities-

- Tim Edensor

Rocky Point Amusement Park

Rocky Beach