Notes from the underworld : an architectural exploration Since early times humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war to find protection from severe climates to improve urban life and more recently to solve environmental problems. A rare look at old and new subterranean structures from an architects perspective this seminal book examines the underworld through the lenses of wartime life and death religious and secular rituals and adaptive reuse. The atlas of 80+ international projects range widely in time period and type from a house in a defunct nuclear silo to an Arctic seed bank a Beirut nightclub art venues an Italian winery and a monastery carved into a mountain. All are surprising examples of how invisible man made spaces follow the same cultural and economic cues as their visible counterparts and are places where we store hide repress and live.