The grounds and buildings of highly loaded historic
sites are continually changing due to environmental
and human interaction, ecological erosion, disposition,
erasure and the various levels of human intervention.
These factors dissolve both physical structures and
the meaning embedded in them, to varying degrees.
In loaded historic sites, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau,
revitalizing the ruins to their original state trivializes the
Holocaust. On the other hand, creating an architecture
that does not directly engage with existing conditions
shows the inability to translate history into an architectural
narrative and achieve an awareness of the events that
took place there. The challenge then, is to ? nd a place
for architecture to operate within, and to activate the
ruins of these fragile sites.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:NSHD.ca#10222/15333 |
| Date | 11 July 2012 |
| Creators | Gawlik, Magdalene |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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