The Destruction of Memory : Architecture at War, Second Expanded Edition (Second expanded edition)

The destruction of Nimrud and Palmyra, crumbled shells of mosques in Iraq, the fall of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11: when architectural totems such as these are destroyed by con?icts and the ravages of war, more than mere buildings are at stake.

The Destruction of Memory, now with a new preface, argues that such destruction not only shatters a nation’s culture and morale but is a deliberate act of eradicating a culture’s memory and, ultimately, its existence.

A ?lm of the same name based on the book will be released in early 2016.