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Locating The Memory Of Political Genocide In The Tradition Of Peace: Two Documentation Centers Of Nazism In Germany, Rumiko Handa
Locating The Memory Of Political Genocide In The Tradition Of Peace: Two Documentation Centers Of Nazism In Germany, Rumiko Handa
Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity
How can architectural design assist in making the past present in meaningful ways when applied to buildings that commemorate troubling pasts? This dilemma becomes even more challenging when a preexisting building is located in a district that had provided citizens with a peaceful setting for leisurely activities before it was taken over for politically hostile purposes. Once that evil force has been eliminated, both city authorities and citizens may desire to return the district to its distant past, bringing peace back to the area. Yet they may also desire that the building carry their difficult memories of the more immediate …
Beyond Setting The Scene: Architecture Of The White City, Ashley Glesinger
Beyond Setting The Scene: Architecture Of The White City, Ashley Glesinger
UCARE Research Products
This undergraduate research project under the direction of Dr. Rumiko Handa and Dr. James Potter of the University of Nebraska- Lincoln is focused on the Erik Larson book, The Devil in the White City. The book focuses on fictionalized historical events surrounding the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. The project is a part of “Architecture in the Humanities,” an online relational database that connects architecture with literature, theater, film, and art. Literature has the ability to make historical architecture accessible to the contemporary readers. Often the architecture sets the scene for events, but its relevance goes unnoticed. This database …