Main entry:

Heathcote, Edwin.

Title & Author:

Monument builders : modern architecture and death / Edwin Heathcote.

Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Academy Editions, 1999.

Description:

224 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 222) and index.
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 -- Joz̆e Plec̆nik -- 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.

Summary:

This is a study of buildings created to honour the dead. It explores the links between socio-religious and existential perceptions of death and how this has been interpreted in architecture over the 20th century.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0471983683
9780471983682

Subject:

Sepulchral monuments.
Mausoleums.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Memorials.
Funeral Rites
Monuments funéraires.
Mausolées.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies.
Monuments commémoratifs.
mausoleums.
funerals.
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Bildband
Friedhof
Grabmal
Kirchenbau
Kunst
Religion

Holdings:

Location: Library main 206216
Call No.: NA44.H439.A35 1999
Status: Available