Preparált terek. Az ideiglenesség mint az emlékezetalakítás eszköze a budapesti Hősök terén és a linzi Hauptplatzon • Prepared Spaces. Ephemerality as a Tool of Remembrance in Heroes’ Square in Budapest and Hauptplatz in Linz

Abstract

Cohesion within architecture is usually expressed in terms of durability, permanence, and constancy. In addition, its role in culture and its impact on individual and collective memory are primarily attributed to these concepts. It is no accident that Pierre Nora defined archives and rituals as being just as much a part of our memory-places as buildings that, in the long term, fasten and determine the acts of memory linked to them. But what conclusions may we make from those two symbolic interventions appearing in built space from Budapest and Linz that exist just for days or months, which, in spite of their ephemeral nature or just because of it, become influential and determinant projects that affect the individual and collective memory?