Monument Builders: Modern Architecture and Death (Academy Builders S.)

by Edwin Heathcote

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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.
  • ISBN10 0471983683
  • ISBN13 9780471983682
  • Publish Date 22 December 1998
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 February 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Imprint Wiley-Academy
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English