Untitled Document 3.22.01 Loss, Memory, and Continuity Elemental forms are reused and repeated. This is a continuous link of architecture throughout time. Form is disjointed from the function of the building. Therefore the typology of the building disregards the meaning. Modernists wished to get away from a historical tradition.
Architecture stands frozen in a surreal timelessness .
Fixed objects act as receptacles for varying program, responding to technology and culture of the time. Necropolis Cemetery of San Cataldo Modena Hierarchy A grave is a house for the corpse. The cemetery is a city for the graves. Formal elements repeat. The Manhattan skyline requires an architectural envelope for its components.