Published Paper Details:

Memorials are mainly concerned with memories related to events in history. Research shows that emotions and memories are strongly related. The memorials communicate tragedy or uncertainty and evoke aspiration and a sense of gratitude. Sensory experience plays a major role in memory. The paper studies how architects around the world and through time in history, have been successful in designing different memorials to evoke memories of the events that they are dedicated to. It aims to identify architectural and landscape elements and features used in the memorial design to evoke human memories, emotions, and experiences. The research analyses some of the well-known memorials across the world designed after world war I, to date through literature review, and analytical studies and tries to figure out similarities in design elements and principles that are applied by designers of these memorials. The paper limits itself to the analysis of two common emotions attached to memorials- grief and pride. The research concludes by identifying elements and principles that are mainly adopted by designers in the design of memorials to evoke the above-mentioned emotions.