Architecture Form(s) Identity. Spaces for the Absence of Memory

Architecture form(s) identity. Spaces for the absence of memory is a collection of essays on the theme of memory, its possible loss, weakness, ability to build individual and collective identities, and on the way architecture inserts itself in this process, determining different spaces of reflection. These texts all arise from a common research ground, which saw the editors personally involved in an inter-doctoral Workshop (The Memory as Construction of the Subject. Designing for the Absence of Memory, 2018-19), with a collaboration between Politecnico di Milano (AUID) and the Universidad de Sevilla (HAC) Ph.D. schools, in which the theme of memory and the construction of a space that dialogues with it was at the center of the design reflection. A memory that is exercised and stressed in an extreme context, namely that of its weakness or even absence due to the disease that deconstructs and dissolves it, visiting, drawing and conceiving some critical texts capable of tracing the value of those spaces dedicated to the treatment of people with Alzheimer’s syndrome.