Abstract
Architectural discourse is actively engaged with issues of memorializing and commemorating the dead. Since the nature of the memorial as a built edifice evolves with the perspectives and ideologies of the societies that erect them, architects continue to question the language, form, and content of the memorial. How can history and loss be physically represented? How are larger issues of cultural memory related to a specific memorial? What, if anything, is sacred? And how, when a memorial commemorates many deaths, can individuals be honored? The Northeastern University Veterans Memorial is a vehicle that uses its conceptual and formal agenda as well as visitor interaction to productively explore these questions. In particular, the Memorial poetically responds to the last question through the appropriation of the dog tag and its transformation into symbolic icons for honoring individual fallen soldiers.
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