Farhid Maya of Taller Síntesis presents "Architecture of Memory," the fourth virtual lecture in the "Architecture Lessons from a Distance" series.
“Listen to Borges say that he remembered one afternoon his father had told him something very sad about memory; he had said: “I thought I could remember my childhood when I first arrived in Buenos Aires, but now I know I cannot, because I believe that if I remember something—for example, if today I remember something from this morning—I get an image of what I saw this morning. But if tonight I remember something from this morning, what I then remember is not the first image, but the first image of memory. So every time I remember something, I am not really remembering it; rather, I am remembering the last time I remembered it; I am remembering a final memory. So, in reality, I have no memories or images at all of my childhood, of my youth” (Enrique Vila-Matas, Never Any End to Paris).
Drawing on a series of projects from our office of varying types and scales, we will discuss personal, collective, and borrowed memories, exploring the duality of memory and reinvention that underpins the creative process.
