Monument builders
Subtitle: modern architecture and death
By: Edwin Heathcote.
Publisher: Academy Editions
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Sepulchral monuments.; Mausoleums.; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.; Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 222) and index.