Growing Up Modern – Oral History as Architectural Preservation

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Notes

1 Naomi Stead and Janina Gosseye, “The Toolkit for Today,” seminar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, July 4, 2017, 27:57, accessed May 11, 2018, https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/50476/oral-history-part-i-methods-and-mistakes.

2 The Weissenhofmuseum's Anja Kaemer organized the meeting.

3 J. J. P. Oud, Ed Taverne, Cor Wagenaar, and Martien de Vletter, J. J. P. Oud: Poetic Functionalist, 1890–1963: The Complete Works (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2001); and Richard Pommer and Christian F. Otto, Weissenhof 1927 and the Modern Movement in Architecture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).

4 Tonya Davidson, “The Role of Domestic Architecture in the Structuring of Memory,” Space and Culture 12, no. 3 (August 2009): 332–42.

5 Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Memory in the Age of Mass Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

6 Rachel Sebba, “The Landscapes of Childhood: The Reflection of Childhood's Environment in Adult Memories and in Children's Attitudes,” Environment and Behavior 23, no. 4 (July 1991): 419.

7 Mrs. Zumpfe, who grew up in the Schminke House, spoke of still frequently dreaming about the house seven decades after leaving it.

8 Lynn Abrams, Oral History Theory (London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016): 9.

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Julia Jamrozik

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Julia Jamrozik is an assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Architecture. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she studied both architecture and art history and holds a MArch from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her design practice in collaboration with Coryn Kempster focuses on spaces, objects, and situations that interrupt the ordinary in critically engaging and playful ways (www.ck-jj.com).