Architecture of Memory – Recollecting Spaces

«(…) You see images, you reproduce images, you keep images in your memory. The picture is everything but a direct product of the imagination."
(Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space)

Can you remember the rooms of your childhood? Your childhood room, your favourite hiding place or maybe the smell in your grandparents' kitchen?
Imagine telling these memories not only with words, but also with a drawing. With a representation that does not necessarily depict the space, but corresponds to a mental and personal note of it.
What elements would you draw?
What details are important to capture your memory?

Architecture of Memory brings together around 60 architects and artists from all over Switzerland to address these questions.

After the successful presentation at the Architekturforum Zürich, the exhibition will now be shown in the Stadtgalerie Chur and expanded to include further contributions. With sketches, stories and installations, the mechanisms by which our mind transforms spatial memories into concrete thoughts are examined. The different approaches to the form of representation or materiality of the works show how time influences and distorts perceptions of space. This process is part of a translation that takes place from memory while sketching and forms the starting point for the exhibition Architecture of Memory.

With memories of:

Adrien Comte, Adrien Meuwly, Alan Hasoo, Andrea Deplazes, Andreas Bründler, Barbara Hennig Marques, Bob Gysin, Camille Trechot, Carlos Viladoms, Carmen Lorente Sangros, Charlotte Truwant, Christian Inderbitzin, Corinna Menn, Daniel Zamarbide, Daniele Marques, Daniela Keiser, David Palussiere, Dominique Salathé, Dries Rodet, Emanuel Christ, Francesco Buzzi, Gregory Tara Hari, Guillaume Henry, Guillaume Yersin, Heinrich Toews, Ioannis Piertzovanis, Irene Naef, Ivo Barão, Jürg Conzett, Koichiro Tsuchyia, Leonid Slonimskiy, Lilitt Bollinger, Livia Gnos, Liz Kueneke, Logan Amont, Marcia Akermann, Maria Zgraggen, Mariana Santana, Marie-Aude Papin, Mirko Akermann, Monika Feucht, Peter Roesch, Quintus Miller, Ralph Blättler, Raphael Kadid, Roger Boltshauser, Rolf Winnewisser, Ron Edelaar, Shadi Rahbaran, Simon Frommenwiler, Simon Hartmann, Sonja Grigo, Stefan Koepfli, Stefan Wülser, Thibaud Sulliger, Thomas Lussi, Tilo Herlach, Tivadar Puskas, Valentin Deschenaux, Vincenzo Cangemi.