Meeting potential supervisor #2 and some other notes

-How do you decide what is worthwhile saving, and what is better to be left or destroyed?
-Look at Detroit

Meeting Chris Barton, of the NZ Herald
-Look at Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch (possible site!)

Options:
1. Apply knowledge/ experience in Germany to a site/ series of sites chosen in Christchurch
2. OR choose a site in Germany...

-visit red zone in Chch

-BIG and heavy topic... must refine quickly

-Are approaches to ruined sites in Germany applicable to ruined buildings in Christchurch? Can I make that jump? Are they different? If so, how?

-post-war reconstruction
-architecture/war, construction/reconstruction

-Chch: dealing with loss of human life, but unlike Germany, not the recovery of the inhumane result of war

-historicism vs. historical materialism
-historicism = time in sequence, looking backwards from present
-historical materialism = time is intertwined, past, present and future informing one another

Advised I read:
Caroline Wiedmer, The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France, Cornell University Press, 1999,  - http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Zujg0dZIzeEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+claims+of+memory&hl=en&ei=cVS-TLjNNsqycIainLkN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Peter Carrier, Holocaust monuments and national memory cultures in France and Germany since 1989, Berghahn Books, 2005 - http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=bRshMk5sBxUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=peter+carrier&hl=en&ei=AzlBTcQzjKS-A_nyhfgB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany Today. James E. Young, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 18, No. 2. (Winter, 1992), pp. 267-296 - http://www.janetzweig.com/RISDPDFPUBLICART/Young_CounterMonument.pdf

 And here's  a good outline of the story behind Eisenman's memorial - http://users.dickinson.edu/~osborne/myers/404.htm

-I should use Endnote? List books with comments and references.. type notes.. Word? Indesign?

Meeting with potential supervisor #1

(Graeme Burgess, of Burgess and Treep Architects)

-Don't have to have a site immediately
-Christchurch?
-mental ruins
-veils over buildings. What you think you're seeing you're not...
-thesis can be conceptual

look at
-Any writings by Rachel Whiteread
-Edward Dewall's the Hare with Amber Eyes
-Art Historian Robert Hughes
-The secret Lives of Buildings
-look at demolision in East Germany e.g. the people's palace in Berlin
-The Inability to mourn by Margaret Mitcherlich