Competition: win a copy of In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
As part of Dezeen's collaboration with Phaidon we are giving away five copies of In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials, by Spencer Bailey.
In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials is an exploration of the architecture and design of memorials built in the past 40 years.
Five readers will each win a hardback copy of the book, which has 240 pages and is illustrated with 200 photographs.
Top: Flight 93 National Memorial by Paul Murdoch Architects. Picture by Eric Staudenmeier. Above: In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
The book includes more than 60 memorials designed by architects including David Adjaye, Tadao Ando, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Snøhetta, and Peter Zumthor.
"Memorials hold a special position in the cultural memory of communities, cultures and nations," said Phaidon. "They recognise hardship and sacrifice, as well as commemorate some of the most destructive and painful events in history."
The book has 240 pages and is illustrated with 200 photographs
Adjaye's 2013 Gwangju Pavilion and 2016 Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture memorials are included in the book.
"This book comes at a time of rethinking spatial storytelling," said Adjaye.
"The narrative of memorials is a device to project the many things facing people across the planet: nationhood, citizen rights, human rights, climate action. Memorial form is an important act of un-forge...
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