Reconstructing on Sites of Erasures

“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was’. It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.” Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of

Cities of Remembering and Forgetting

Cities build as they demolish. We remember as we forget. Architecture creates memories. Human memories are spatial. Human experience always occur in a place and our memory of any experience is always place specific. Memory of the city is shaped

Heritage As Ground-Zero

Preservation is not about restoring old buildings in a way that looks exactly as it is before. It is a notion that requires a larger imagination, clarity and ambition to define what it is that’s being preserved, rather than freezing