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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48652-1 — Designing Memory Sabina Tanović Index More Information Index ‘Memorial Glade’, 162 Auschwitz 11-M memorial, 151–7, 173, 239 international competition, 49 curved glass bricks, 155 Memorial Committee, 49 deterioration, 156–7 panorama of, 114 personal grief, 155 representation of, 89 political filter, 152 survivors, 51 sacred place, 156 Austria serene and intimate space, 152 Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna, 59 3RW architects, 165, 169 The Vienna Project, 122 9/11 memorial, 174 adjustments, 160 Baljon, Lodewijk, 216 meaningful adjacency, 161 Ballhausen, Nils, 106 public space, 161 banalization, 90 9th Fort Memorial and Museum, Kaunas, 47 Basaldella, Dino, 43 BBPR, 40 abstract art, 114 Belgium active participation, 70 Belgium’s Jews, 180 Adorno, Theodor, 77 Bloody Fields of Flanders, 215 on Beckett’s Endgame, 116 Brussels. See terrorist attack on non-idenitity, 99 Dossin Barracks. See Kazerne Dossin Alexander, Jeffrey, 102–3 Flanders Fields, 204 Ambasz, Emilio, 70 Flanders Foreign Affairs Department, 217 ambiguous place attachment, 109 Flemish memory activists, 204, 231 Angeli-Radovani, Kosta, 49 Flemish Peace Institute, 214 appropriation In Flanders Fields Museum (1998), 231 of memorial spaces, 78, 91, 174, 238 Jewish Museum of Deportation and Arad, Michael, 159, 174 Resistance, 181 Architectural Review The Flanders Fields Post, 231 ‘In Search of New Monumentality’,37 war heritage, 229 architecture and context, 107 Wounded But Still Standing, 173 global culture of memory, 114 Belopolsky, Yakow, 35 monumentality vs. modesty, 118 Benjamin, Walter, 142 place memory, 107 Bevan, Robert, 88 sense of place, 107, 111 Bill, Max, 38 terrorscape, 110 Blomfield, Reginald, 25 architecture parlante, 31, 54 Bogdanović, Bogdan, 45, 86, 88, 135 dark, 117 Boico, Romano, 42 Ariès, Philippe, 133 Boltanski, Christian, 59 on invisible death, 93 Bosnia and Herzegovina artificial infinite, 24, 129 genocide, 68 Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 141 Memorial in Exile, 103 Assmann, Jan, 80 Prijedor, Omarska, 103 Attie, Shimon, 120 Srebrenica Memorial Room, 125 265 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48652-1 — Designing Memory Sabina Tanović Index More Information 266 Index Boullée, Etienne-Louis, 116, 129 Choay, Françoise, 5, 120 on new genre in architecture, 131 Clausen, George Bourgeois, Louise Youth Mourning,21 No Escape and No Exit, 135 Cold War, 35, 38, 227 Brâncuși, Constantin, 55, 224 figural vs. abstract, 35 Breivik, Anders, 163 collective Burden, Chris identity, 88 The Other Vietnam Memorial (1991), 57 memory, 80, 92, 103 Burke, Edmund memory studies, 8 on sublime, 129 mourning, 78, 96 Butler, Judith, 103 remembrance, 11, 79 Butler, Reg, 38 Collin-Thiébaut, Gérard, 70 Colvin, Howard, 128 Camp Westerbork, The Netherlands, 84, 143 connective turn, 66 Camus, Albert, 135 Constant, Benjamin, 92 Casey, Edward contemporary commodity, 73 on place memory, 107 Cordonnier, Louis-Marie, 205 Cassou, Jean, 40 COR-TEN, 142, 226 Castiglioni, Giannino, 30 counter-memory Cemeteries counter-hotel, 106 American Battle Monuments Commission, counter-monuments, 8, 58, 236 25 generation, 57 American cemeteries, 26 Creighton, Thomas H., 173 battlefield memorials, 23 Cret, Paul Philippe, 25 British First World War, 23 Croatia commemoration of. See Remembrance Park Field of Crosses (2010), 71 Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC, Jasenovac memorial site, 86 131 Memorial Complex at Kampor, educational spaces, 123 140 equality of death, 24 cultural memory, 79 German First World War cemeteries, 26 actual cultural memories, 80 German spirit and art. See eternal nature potential cultural memories, 80 Igualada cemetery, Barcelona, 134 Military Sacrarium of Redipuglia, 30 Dahlberg, Jonas, 163 Modena ossuary, 136 Danteum, 31 names of the dead, 94 Danto, Arthur, 7 Notre Dame de Lorette. See Ring of Memory De Graaf, Jan, 216 memorial deconstructivism, 60 Partisan Cemetery in Mostar, 135 Deconstructivist Architecture, 61 post-war landscape. See Remembrance Park deep structure, 130 San Cataldo cemetery, 136 Demnig, Gunter, 59 spaces of transition, 133 descent into the earth, 131 Thiepval. See France didactic, 120, 126 tourism, 229 aspect, 224, 235 transforming trauma, 111 component, 177 Tyne Cot, 127, 212 content, 74, 114, 218, 238 Uitzicht crematorium in Kortrijk, Belgium, experiences, 116 137 framework, 143 Woodland Cemetery, 140 holding environment, 127 Woodland Chapel, 141 interrelational environment, 123 Cenotaph to Sir Isaac Newton (1784), 129 key factors, 126 Chicago, Judy potential, 122 Dinner Party (1979), 56 traditional, 235 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48652-1 — Designing Memory Sabina Tanović Index More Information Index 267 Diener, Roger, 196 Memorial to the Armenian Genocide, Lyon, Diener & Diener Architects. See Drancy 71 Memorial Museum Memorial to the Battle of Arras, 68 Divine Comedy. See Danteum Memorial to the Deportation, Paris, 39, 56, Dix, Otto, 21 112–13, 177, 202 Der Krieg, 110 Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr, Doss, Erika, 7, 74, 118 39 Drancy Memorial Museum, 192–8 National Memorial to the Algerian War, 70 background architecture, 202 Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 69, 205 connection with the site, 196 Shoah Memorial in Paris, 192 engaging scenography, 194 Thiepval Memorial, 24, 56, 235 monumentality, 194 Trails of Memory, 68, 205 reflective glass, 197 Trench of Bayonets, Verdun, 78 research institution, 196 Freed, James Ingo, 117 transparent work of memory, 193 Freud, Sigmund Džamonja, Dušan, 49 Mourning and Melancholia (1917), 96 on screen memories, 82 Eisenman, Peter, 61, 63 Friedrich, Caspar David, 21 environmental art movement, 55 deathscapes, 133 eternal fire, 48 Gali, Beth, 110 life, 92 genius loci, 24, 55 nature, 26 Germany Reich, 28 Aschkroft fountain, Kassel, 58 eternal nature, 26 Bergen–Belsen, 198 ethical purpose, 58 Berlin Wall memorial, 73 Etlin, Richard, 130, 135 Blut und Boden, 64 Book-Mark, Bonn, 121 Faloci, Pierre-Louis, 206 Jewish Museum of Berlin, 61 FAM Arquictetura y Urbanismo. See 11-M Kriegerdenkmal, Munich, 27 memorial Liebknecht-Luxemburg Memorial, Berlin, 27 Faulkner, William, 52 Memorial for the Book Burning, Berlin, 59 Finsterwalder, Ulrich, 27 Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, flight MH17 memorial, 170 Berlin, 62 Foucault, Michael Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of on cemeteries, 175 National Socialism, 65, 200 on counter-memory, 83 Missing House,59 France Mittelbau-Dora, 198 Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, 205 Monument Against Fascism, Hamburg- Arc de Triomphe, 24 Harburg, 58 Cité de la Muette, 190 Monument to Homosexual Holocaust Departmental Archives of Seine-Saint- Victims, Berlin, 65 Denis, 192 Monument to the March Dead, Weimar, 27 Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Neue Bremm memorial, Saarbrücken, 105, 192 127 Generation Bataclan, 169 Neue Wache, 28, 157 ‘Hell in the North’, 205 Ort der Information, 65 Interment and Deportation memorial in Pro Memoria Garden, 70 Royallieu, 127, 143 Square of the Invisible Monument, Le Réseau art committee, 39 Saarbrücken, 71 Lens’ 14–18, 206 The Square of the European Promise, Lens-Liévin Metropolitan District, 205 Bochum, 71, 164 Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery, 86 Gerz, Jochen, 58, 71, 164 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48652-1 — Designing Memory Sabina Tanović Index More Information 268 Index Geurst, Jeroen, 216 individual memory, 100 Giacometti, Alberto individuality, 95, 151 Hands Holding The Void,32 Israel Giedion, Sigfried, 36 Dakar Memorial, 53 globalization, 68 Negev Brigade Memorial, 53 exclusivity, 69 Yad Vashem Hall of Remembrance, Good Grief, 129 53 Greppi, Giovanni, 30 Yad Vashem memorial complex, 53 Gropius, Walter, 27 Yad Vashem Museum, 62 Italy, 40–4 Halbwachs, Maurice, 79 fascism, 30 Hansen, Oskar Fosse Ardeatine Mausoleum, 40, 44 closed form, 50 Galleria dei Fasci,30 open form, 50 Monument to Roberto Sarfatti in Col healing, 2, 159, 165, 172 d’Echele, 31 complicated grief, 100 Monument to the Resistance, Udine, 43 concept of, 96 Monument to the Victims of the Nazi environment, 162 Concentration Camps, Milan, 40 participation, 55 Monument to the Women of the Resistance, a period of mourning, 97 Venice, 41 spaces, 53, 66, 201 Mussolini’s rule, 90 structure, 173 Per la Patria Immortale, 30 wound, 157 Resistance Park in Ancona, 42 Heart, Frederic Risiera di San Sabba, 42, 213 The Three Soldiers,57 Rodolfo Graziani mausoleum, 84 Hegnhuset memorial, Utøya, 167 scala santa, 32 Hejduk, John, 132 Shoah memorial, 84 Hoar, George F., 131 Tenth Anniversary of the Fascist Hoheisel, Horst, 58, 114 Revolution, 30 Hollein, Hans The Shrine of the Martyrs, 30 Monument to the victims of the Holocaust, 43 Janson, Horst, 6 Holocaust, 11–14, 33, 54, 60–6 Janus-faced, 2, 105, 233 Belgian case, 181 terrible vs. beautiful, 116 education, 122 Jarr, Alfredo inclusion, 104 Geometrίa de la conciencia, 127 memorial art, 114 Real Pictures, 125 musealization of, 202 proliferation, 235 Kadishman, Menashe schematic representation, 201 Shalechet (Fallen Leaves),62 Yolocaust, 199 Kahn, Louis I., 52 Holocaust Museum in Ottawa, 114 Making of a Room, 136 Homans, Peter on power of light, 53 on the mourning process, 97 Kalashyan, Sashur, 48 hope-giving vs. absence of meaning, 139 Kansteiner, Wulf Hornstein, Shelley, 75 on cultural trauma, 103 human rights Kapoor, Anish in Holocaust education, 122 Orbit Tower. 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