Monuments can fulfill many functions in cities: they can serve as receptacles for local memories and histories, as places to spend time, as meeting points and as landmarks. However, despite this potential flexibility, the concept of the monument and its relation to the city are in crisis in contemporary architecture, urban design and public discourse.
Monuments of Everyday Life calls for a rediscovery of the monument as an essential and creative part of the city. Based on a rereading of four monumental sites in São Paulo, this book locates specific spatial patterns around monuments that can offer alternatives to the instability, rampant commercialization and homogenization of urban space. These monuments can serve as reference points for collective life and material representations of collective values. Drawing conclusions from history, Monuments of Everyday Life addresses a question for urban futures―why do cities need monuments? 纪念碑可以在城市中发挥许多功能: 它们可以作为当地记忆和历史的容器,作为消磨时间的地方,作为会议点和地标。然而,尽管具有这种潜在的灵活性,纪念碑的概念及其与城市的关系在当代建筑、城市设计和公共秩序中都处于危机之中。日常生活中的纪念碑要求重新发现纪念碑作为城市的一个重要和创造性的组成部分。基于对圣保罗四个纪念性地点的重读,这本书在纪念碑周围定位特定的空间模式,可以提供不稳定的替代品,猖獗的商业化和城市空间的同质化。这些纪念碑可以作为集体生活和集体价值的物质表现的参考点。从历史中得出结论,日常生活的纪念碑解决了城市未来的一个问题——为什么城市需要纪念碑? 基本信息 出版社 : JOVIS (2019年9月17日) 语言 : 英语 平装 : 256页 ISBN-10 : 3868595554 ISBN-13 : 978-3868595550 商品重量 : 454 g 尺寸 : 13.72 x 2.03 x 19.3 cm
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