The Modern and Contemporary Abode of Collective Memory:

Memorials in Europe, Latin America, and Mexico.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.8313

Keywords:

Memory, Memorials, Modern Architecture, Contemporary Architecture, Antimemorials, 20th Century

Abstract

In the XX century, in the project of Modernity, collective death is an open wound in the human psyche. Within the symbolic field, a possible scar are the memorials as spaces for reflection and catharsis, where tragedies are ritualized, and processes of loss and mourning are sublimated as instruments of social therapy that, occasionally, result in a type of oblivion more than in an active memory.

This text lays a route along two concepts, promenade architecturale and memory, circumscribed to the Greek myth of Mnemosyne, as viewpoints to observe critically a selection of memorials from the second half of the XX century as a genealogy reflected on contemporary memorials in Mexico. It also aims to discuss their appropriateness as political instruments of oblivion in a society struck by natural tragedies, state violence, and organized crime.

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Author Biographies

Fabricio Lázaro Villaverde , Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, México

Architect from the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO), Master in Architecture from the Autonomous University of Yucatán, PhD candidate from the Autonomous University of Morelos. Since 1997 he has been a teacher and research professor at FADU-UABJO. Assistant and speaker at national and international colloquiums, conferences and seminars, in various universities in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Ecuador. He has published in university magazines in Mexico, Ecuador and Argentina. Member of DOCOMOMO México, of the Observatory of Contemporary Latin American Architecture (ODLAC), of the Latin American Architecture Seminars (SAL), of the Scientific Committee of the Forum of History and Criticism of Modern Architecture, and of the International Research Network in Architecture and Sacred Art.

Edith Cota Castillejos, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, México

Architect from the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, Master in Architecture from the Yucatán Autonomous University, PhD candidate at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca. She has published book chapters with UADY, UMSNH, UAM in local and national books and magazines, UAGRO, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, University Center of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Guadalajara. Speaker at national conferences on architecture and urban planning, and international conferences in Spain, Argentina and Ecuador. Research professor at the Faculty of Architecture Ciudad Universitaria Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, where she teaches subjects on the History of Architecture of Mexico and Oaxaca with emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries. Member of the CA Urban architectural heritage in Oaxaca, 16th-21st centuries.

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Published

2023-12-19

How to Cite

Lázaro Villaverde , Fabricio, and Edith Cota Castillejos. 2023. “The Modern and Contemporary Abode of Collective Memory: : Memorials in Europe, Latin America, and Mexico”. Atrio. Revista De Historia Del Arte, no. 29 (December). Sevilla, España:448-70. https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.8313.

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Monographic Dossier