Remembrance
Architectural and design responses to loss, memory, and collective grief through physical spaces and experiences.
Between Memory and Oblivion: A Refugee Cemetery Carved into the Landscape of Lesvos
Mourning Courses proposes a cemetery for refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos, where water, light, and carved ground guide visitors through grief.
Regathering Memory: A Post-Conflict Memorial That Rebuilds Aleppo Through Walking and Water
Fragments of destroyed buildings become seating, sunken footprints become pools, and a granite ramp turns grief into collective ascent.
Resonating Memories: A Funerary Tower Where Chimes Hold Ashes and Sound Replaces Stone
A vertical memorial fuses crematorium, market, and wind-activated copper chimes into an architecture of collective mourning and urban life.
Memory Requiem: Dissolving the Boundary Between Cemetery and City Park in Shanghai
A shortlisted cemetery design splits a dense Shanghai site into zones for life and death, linked by a contemplative park and bio-lab ecology.
Future of Memory: A Circular Square Rebuilds Civic Life Around a War-Scarred Citadel
Bomb craters become sites of reflection as adaptive reuse architecture reinterprets lost bathhouses, mosques, and markets in post-conflict Aleppo.
The Non-Memorial: Aleppo Folds Its War Ruins Into Everyday Public Space Instead of a Monument
Mohamed El-Kurdi treats Aleppo's war ruins as a sublayer to daily civic life, pairing them with a hidden tunnel, storytelling towers and an open plaza.
Memory of Homes and Hopes: A Perforated Hill Carved With the Absent Rooms of Syrian Homes
A shortlisted memorial shapes a low, perforated hill whose liwan-like voids mark lost Syrian homes and draw the city toward a light-filled central void.
memories of space – spaces of memory
Remembrance place in a former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Gross-Rosen in Rogoźnica.
