Joelho #13 Memory, Memorabilia and the Making

In the modern era’s new awareness of time, Jürgen Habermas tells us that historical memory has given way to an ahistorical use of the past, reflected in the abstract language of avant-garde aesthetics. The past thus became a raw material, providing references to be explored in an ahistorical manner, opening new conceptual paths through subversive creative processes.

With the exhaustion of modernity’s momentum and the postmodern collage of historical iconography, how has the operative role of memory, memorabilia, and the past in general changed in architectural creation?