Abstract: William Chapman is the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM). Educated at Columbia University (M.S. in historic preservation) and at Oxford University (D.Phil. in anthropology), Chapman is a frequent contributor to UNESCO projects, serving as a reviewer for World Heritage nominations. A four-time Fulbright scholar (Italy, Cambodia, and twice in Thailand), his latest publication is Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia: A Traveler's Guide through History, Ruins, and Landscapes (Bangkok: River Books; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018). Chapman previously served as the director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Historic Preservation at UHM.Sabina Tanović is an ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-06T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Genbaku Dome, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, focus of the Hiroshima Peace memorial. (Oilstreet, 2013. Wikimedia Commons)To commemorate: 1) to call to remembrance; 2) to mark by some ceremony of observation; 3) to serve as a memorial. Merriam-Webster Dictionary1Sites of war and conflict, symbolizing collective loss and representing significant events in the history of a community, nation, or the world are sometimes elevated to the status of "heritage." The same is true of monuments or other kinds of memorials erected to remember those conflicts. Battlefields, bombing targets, military encampments, locations of naval engagements, and places associated with terrorist attacks speak of human tragedy and acts of ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-06T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Visitors at Westerbork memorial site observe the private residence of Schutzstaffel commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker preserved in a glass structure. Westerbork, the Netherlands. (Sabina Tanović, 2015)The remembrance and the feelings of passing through the Tunnel faded over time, but I do remember the fear that I felt.1If the shots of Sarajevo were directed solely at an archduke and his wife, the shots of Sarajevo of 1994 were aimed at an entire people, the Muslim Bosnians2Architecture has historically been used and explored as an aide-mémoire in various ways. Its role, however, in commemorating violent death is invariably complicated. In cases of human-on-human violence, commemoration is entangled with feelings of ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-06T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. (October 2018, Yujin Yaguchi)In the closing days of 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a visit to Honolulu, Hawai'i, to meet with US President Barack Obama, who was vacationing in his childhood state. This would be the prime minister's ninth and final meeting with President Obama, whose term was ending in less than a month. The highlight of this occasion was the visit the two men made to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. Abe became the first Japanese prime minister to make an official visit to what Emily Rosenberg has labeled the popular "icon" of American culture that commemorates the deaths and sacrifice of servicemembers and civilians killed by the ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-06T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Cover of Bombed Churches as War Memorials. (Architectural Press, 1945). (Peter J. Larkham)War memorials are produced through acts of new creation and by the destructive effects of war. This article examines how some churches, in their bombed and ruinous condition, came to be reused across England in the post–World War II period. The ways these buildings were treated throughout the war and the postwar reconstruction period represent a range of options for repurposing valued structures with varying degrees of damage and provide a useful snapshot of architectural and urban conservation theory and practices.2In England, bombed churches form large-scale, prominent, and long-lasting urban landscape features. While some ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-06T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Main Street, Oradour-sur-Glane. (Dennis Nilsson, 2004. Wikimedia Commons)In her study, "The Thread That Binds Together: Lidice, Oradour, Putten, and the Memory of World War II," Madelon de Keizer offers a comparative analysis of the violence that three villages (one Czech, one French, and one Dutch) suffered at the hands of German forces and the communities' efforts to make sense of what happened.1 She structures her analysis on the tensions and transitions between local, national, and transnational forms of recollection as memories of the war began to fade and hatred for Germany began to lessen. Although she primarily focuses on the Dutch village of Putten, she argues that in each case, master narratives grounded ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-06T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Refugee family portrait in front of their tent, real photo postcard, ca. 1923, Greece. (Author's collection)The Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922, as it is known in Greek history, led to the displacement of 1.2 million Greeks from Turkey to Greece. "Ever since the expulsion from Eden, man has been trekking, and folk wanderings are the roots of his history," reads a 1925 article in National Geographic on the human tragedy of Greece's and Turkey's expulsion of two million people. An accompanying photograph foregrounds a refugee camp of tents surrounding the classical Temple of Hephaestus in the Athenian Agora.1 A similar photograph documenting the Armenian genocide shows "the old arches and cellars" of Mimar Sinan's ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-06T00:00:00-05:00
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