Cities of the Dead: 10 Projects Exploring Burial Architecture
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Montpellier Metropolitan Cemetery / Agence Traverses - Paysage, Urbanisme, Architecture. Image © Marie-Caroline Lucat
Death is a certainty, but its architecture has never been stable. Every period and culture has invented a different way of placing the dead in the world (close or far, visible or screened, monumental or almost anonymous), and those choices have always carried social and political weight. Cemeteries are where that weight becomes legible in space, turning belief and regulation int
Death is a certainty, but its architecture has never been stable. Every period and culture has invented a different way of placing the dead in the world (close or far, visible or screened, monumental or almost anonymous), and those choices have always carried social and political weight. Cemeteries are where that weight becomes legible in space, turning belief and regulation int
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