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Sinopsis
A thoughtful exploration of modern architectural monuments and memorials Structures built in response to death pose unique architectural challenges-challenges that transcend the physical to encompass symbolism, beliefs, and culture. Monument Builders highlights this rarely discussed yet fascinating building type, exploring the links between different perceptions of death and their expression in architecture over the course of the twentieth century. Sensitive but never somber, it features the work of an impressive international roster of architects as it moves from neo-classicist and modernist treatments of death to holocaust memorials and other difficult projects.
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EDWIN HEATHCOTE is an architect and writer based in London. He is on the editorial staff of Church Building magazine and is the author of Imre Makovecz: The Wings of the Soul, co-author of Church Builders (both published by Academy Editions) and the author of Budapest: A Guide to Twentieth Century Architecture (Ellipsis).
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When we come across a mound in the woods, six feet long and three feet wide raised to a pyramidal form by a spade we become serious and something in us says: someone was buried here. That is architecture. Adolf Loos, Architecture, 1910 Monuments, memorials and the architecture of death recall the most profound archetypes of building from our collective unconscious: from the brutal power of the burial mound to the terrible loneliness of the single memorial in a crowd of gravestones or in the repetitive grid of a columbarium, these are structures which have the power to touch us and provoke the existential angst which is the engine of the human mind. But death is a taboo subject in a society where people are pathologically fearful of reminders of their own mortality, who see death not as a defining moment in the human condition but as something to be sanitised and pushed to the edges of consciousness and subsequently, the fringes of the town and city. Despite the great quantity of scholarship and literature which has been devoted to the great memorials from Antiquity to the Renaissance, from the pyramids to the Roman mausolea and Gothic memorials, scant a ttention has been paid to modern works an illustration of the current fear of embracing the subject of death. Yet the architects of some of the greatest and most iconic works of recent years (including Aldo Rossi, Carlo Scarpa, Enric Miralles and others) have concerned themselves with this eternal theme. This book attempts to examine the role of architecture in addressing death by featuring a wide range of recent funerary buildings and monuments and defining their place in creating a modern architecture of death. Other titles in the series include: Museum Builders Theatre Builders Library Builders Church Builders Future titles include: Airport Builders Office Builders University Builders Bank Builders
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Monument Builders Modern Architecture and Death When we come across a mound in the woods, six feet long and three feet wide raised to a pyramidal form by a spade we become serious and something in us says: someone was buried here. That is architecture. Adolf Loos, Architecture, 1910 Monuments, memorials and the architecture of death recall the most profound archetypes of building from our collective unconscious: from the brutal power of the burial mound to the terrible loneliness of the single memorial in a crowd of gravestones or in the repetitive grid of a columbarium, these are structures which have the power to touch us and provoke the existential angst which is the engine of the human mind. But death is a taboo subject in a society where people are pathologically fearful of reminders of their own mortality, who see death not as a defining moment in the human condition but as something to be sanitised and pushed to the edges of consciousness and subsequently, the fringes of the town and city. Despite the great quantity of scholarship and literature which has been devoted to the great memorials from Antiquity to the Renaissance, from the pyramids to the Roman mausolea and Gothic memorials, scant attention has been paid to modern works - an illustration of the current fear of embracing the subject of death. Yet the architects of some of the greatest and most iconic works of recent years (including Aldo Rossi, Carlo Scarpa, Enric Miralles and others) have concerned themselves with this eternal theme. This book attempts to examine the role of architecture in addressing death by featuring a wide range of recent funerary buildings and monuments and defining their place in creating a modern architecture of death. Other titles in the series include: Museum Builders Theatre Builders Library Builders Church Builders Future titles include: Airport Builders Office Builders University Builders Bank Builders
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Monument Builders : Modern Architecture and Death, Academy Edition.
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Monument builders : modern architecture and death / Edwin Heathcote
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 224 pp., color illustrations, 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 222) and index. Contents; MODERNISM, ARCHITECTURE AND DEATH -- I. Houses of the dead : cities of the dead -- II. Et in Arcadia ego -- III. The necropolis : a resurrected archetype -- IV. Buried cities : dead cities -- V. The architecture of shadows -- VI. The Parisian Elysium -- VII. John Soane : display, dwelling and death -- VIII. Death and the birth of modernism : the Fin de Siècle and the sepluchre -- IX. Consumed by flames -- X. The prism, the pyramid, the glass mountain : Expressionism, Cubism and the architecture of death -- XI. War memorials : the expression of wasted life -- XII. Between the wars : the monumental era -- XIII. Italy : modernism, classicism, monumentalism, rationalism -- XIV. Modernism and the functional language of death -- XV. The paradox of the modernist movement : a new approach -- XVI. Holocaust memorials -- XVII. The Holocaust and the creation of memory -- XVIII. Epilogue -- Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz -- Joz e Plec nik -- Takefumi Aida -- David Chipperfield Architects -- Wim Cuyvers -- Karin Daan -- Laureano Forero -- Herman Hertzberger -- Ove Hidemark -- Ishimoto -- Arata Isozaki -- Christian Kerez -- András Krizsán -- Dennis Lau and Ng Chen Man -- Maya Lin -- Kunio Maekawa -- Fumihiko Maki -- Imre Makovecz -- Ingrid Mayr and Jorg Mayr -- Enric Miralles -- Hans Nout -- Arnaldo Pomodoro -- Aldo Rossi -- Moshe Safdie -- Stanley Saitowitz -- Carlo Scarpa -- Heinz Tesar -- Rachel Whiteread -- Peter Eisenman. Subjects; Geschichte 1900-1995. Sepulchral monuments. Mausoleums. Funeral rites and ceremonies. 1 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 386494
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