NEW YORK, NY.- Whether it is the shared experience of the built environment, the psychological and metaphorical aspects of theory and design, or the physical construction itself, the very qualities of architecture have inspired visual artists for centuries. One thread that many artists have recently investigated is the creation of memory and its relationship to architecture. Cultural or individual memory, both real and imagined, has been explored in many of these works. With their commanding presence and sometimes troubled histories, buildings (and monuments) are mediators of the past and are, arguably, the strongest medium of our collective consciousness. Through built spaces, communities articulate ideologies, create social, race, ethnic and class relationships, construct histories and inform the unconscious. How does the past accumulate in built space and in what ways does this space shape our individual memory? What of the past is an actual memory and what is a fantasy or o