Memory palaces within the space of architectural production

Burch, James

Abstract

© Taylor & Francis 2016. A model of the space of architectural production is proposed where the building is imagined as a memory palace. In this model, building work is understood to be foreshadowed by an imaginary architecture that both predicts the future physical construction to come and is also made superfluous by this construction work as it comes to be. It is argued that these memory palaces of production remain lodged in the minds of the constructors and designers who planned and executed the detail of a construction. After construction, a building’s details act as a physical route through which individual actors might access their personal memory palaces in the space of production.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 8, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Feb 2, 2016
• Publication Date: Feb 2, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 21, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 1, 2017
• Journal: Architecture and Culture
• Print ISSN: 2050-7828
• Electronic ISSN: 2050-7836
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 327-335
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2015.1082062
• Keywords: memory palace, drawing, construction, BIM, mnemonic imagination
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/841057
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2015.1082062
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Architecture & Culture in September 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/20507828.2015.1082062
• Contract Date: Mar 21, 2016