memory vs. history?

facebook: circles of collectivity

Cabinet of curiosities Musei Wormiani Historia

memory theaters!..theater of the world

Where is our memory?

F. Kahn, Das Leben des Menschen (1929)

Martin Heidegger in the woods (ways of walking)

Memory of water

Bamiyan Buddhas

Ayodhya, IndiaDestruction of the 16th century Babur mosqueDecember 6, 1992

MOVE: Police bombing of a West Philadelphia neighborhood, May 13, 1985

Ground Zero: a powerful place...

Apartment before demolition, Rome, Italy

Mussolini and Augustus

Trauma, memory, architecture

Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, Washington DC

Roadside shrines, Greece

Intersections of ancient and modernAnkara: the contemporary ancient past

An Early Bronze age ritual standard, Alacahoyuk, Turkey

Three Babylons

Babylon, Ishtar Gate6th c. BC

Babylon, archaeological site, military base21th c. AD

Babylon, Tower of Babel16th c. AD Pieter Brueghel, the Elder (1525-1569)

Babylon: modern imaginations

Alejandro González Iñárritu (dir). 2006 Situationist Utopian city “New Babylon” by Dutchartist Constant Nieuwenhuys