Monument Builders: Modern Architecture and Death

Monument Builders: Modern Architecture and Death

Yazar : Edwin Heathcote
Yayınevi : Academy Editions
ISBN : 9780471983682
Baskı yılı : 1999
Sayfa sayısı : 224
Ağırlık : 0.50 kg
Edisyon : 1
Stok durumu : Tükendi   
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.
Preface 6
Modernism, Architecture and Death 8
I Houses of the Dead - Cities of the Dead 8
II Et in Arcadia Ego 13
III The Necropolis: A Resurrected Archetype 15
IV Buried Cities - Dead Cities 17
V The Architecture of Shadows 21
VI The Parisian Elysium 25
VII John Soane: Display, dwelling and death 26
VIII Death and the Birth of Modernism: The Fin de Siecle and the Sepulchre 31
IX Consumed by Flames 35
X The Prism, the Pyramid, the Glass Mountain: Expressionism, Cubism and the Architecture of Death 38
XI War Memorials: The Expression of Wasted Life 42
XII Between the Wars: The Monumental Era 47
XIII Italy: Modernism, Classicism, Monumentalism, Rationalism 52
XIV Modernism and the Functional Language of Death 59
XV The Paradox of the Modernist Monument: A New Approach 62
XVI Holocaust Memorials 64
XVII The Holocaust and the Creation of Memory 68
XVIII Epilogue 71
Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz 74
Joze Plecnik 80
Takefumi Aida 84
David Chipperfield Architects 90
Wim Cuyvers 94
Karin Daan 96
Laureano Forero 98
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