Construction through Time/History

The relationship Rossi brings up about "Construction of the city in time" caught my attention because even though we design with references to historical structures or using a historical structure as inspiration, I had not really thought of being able to link the past with the present in order to evoke a sense of nostalgia such as the cemetery does. The non-functional windows with no sills made it clear that the space was not meant to be used by the living and were there instead to add to the feel of abandonment as the article states. The idea of representing time through architecture in this manner seems interesting and I feel like Rossi was quite successful in this cemetery.

There are more recent buildings such as the Jewish Museum that relate to history and evoke a sense of remembrance but in a more dramatic manner. The cemetery is quite subtle in the way it portrays the passing of times and of he people that lived have lived during those times. The Jewish Museum in a way forces the past on you with the chaos and extreme spaces that greet you at every turn of the corner. In this case the building is independent of the city or its past. It is not constructed by history or time but by the existence of a short period in time, not by "its collective life, through memory" as Rossi states..