Memory as a designing and compositional instrument in architecture

This paper is part of the research on architecture and its instruments of urban design. Part of this research is to understand the methodology of how architects design space using memory as the main instrument of designing. The paper's objective is to explore an existing relation between the memory of places and projects that are built or implemented in that site/area. The starting hypothesis is that through the use of memory as a designing instrument, we are able to carry in the project the traces of the past and to design or create spaces with a stronger connection to the anthropological sense of place. The methodology that will be followed to verify this hypothesis will be based on the analysis of some projects and works that we consider as the main instrument of memory in those sites where they are built. We are going to analyse three projects, in order to explore the relationship between memory of places and the projects themselves. All three projects are from Peter Eisenman, one of the most important exponents of this approach in architecture. The importance of this paper consists in searching for theoretical and practical instruments that are able to improve designing and compositional practices that aim to improve the identity of a place or a settlement.