A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This article examines the understanding of territory, place, and identity as dynamic and sometimes disruptive processes and critiques the cultural politics that attempt to shape and hinder these processes in favor of clear and often nostalgic definitions. Controlling the appearance of the physical environment to ensure its correlation to history and the dominant cultural identity is one such powerful cultural political practice. Elaborating upon data collected from questionnaires, interviews, and a cognitive mapping exercise in an original case study of Muenster and its City Library conducted in 2001, this work demonstrates that place and identity are neither locked into nor the result of simply the appearances of already existing built forms, but are deeper, dynamic, and generative forces that have produced historical appearances and can produce others, dependent on time, context, and the people who engage a place.
This article examines the understanding of territory, place, and identity as dynamic and sometimes disruptive processes and critiques the cultural politics that attempt to shape and hinder these processes in favor of clear and often nostalgic definitions. Controlling the appearance of the physical environment to ensure its correlation to history and the dominant cultural identity is one such powerful cultural political practice. Elaborating upon data collected from questionnaires, interviews, and a cognitive mapping exercise in an original case study of Muenster and its City Library conducted in 2001, this work demonstrates that place and identity are neither locked into nor the result of simply the appearances of already existing built forms, but are deeper, dynamic, and generative forces that have produced historical appearances and can produce others, dependent on time, context, and the people who engage a place.
The Muenster City Library
Song, Linn (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 60 ; 12-20
2007-02-01
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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