Spatial Recall: The Place of Memory in Landscape and Architecture is a two-day symposium sponsored by the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. The symposium will take place Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10, 2007.

Admission is free and open to the public.
Registration is REQUIRED.

Whether intended or not, our built environment serves as a grand mnemonic device that records and transmits vital aspects of culture and history. Architects and landscape architects have addressed this externalized memory in differing ways at different times, varying from the emulation characteristic of classicism to its complete rejection by modernist practice. Over the last decades the gradient between these two poles has fluctuated once again, bringing us New Urbanism, postmodern historicism, site remediation, active preservation, ecological recreation, as well as an abstract architecture conceived free of the limitations of site.

Spatial Recall assembles a number of accomplished scholars and design professionals to discuss the role of memory found or built in the environment and/or in their work. The program will cover the idea of cemeteries and memorials, issues of preservation and neglect, the reuse of past styles, the destruction of the architecture and landscapes of prior political regimes, the role of cultural landscapes in landscape architecture, and connections between the arts and environmental design. These are presented from an international and multidisciplinary perspective.

For more information and to register, visit the symposium website.