Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place

Jonathan Bach of The New School reviews Shelley Hornstein’s Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place:

Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place is an extended meditation on how architecture sutures, unravels, and transforms the human experience of place and identity. It is an interwoven tapestry of different cases—memorials, art, images—that bear relation to each other through their connection of sight to site. At times lyrical, at times almost baroquely ornate, the book lilts like a vessel on the waves, its narrative borne by a current of modernity’s cultural anxiety, an anxiety that architecture and its representations seek alternately to smooth and to vent…continue reading