Monument Builders. Modern Architecture and Death

When we come across a mound in the woods, six feet long and three feet wide raised to a pyramidal form by a spade we become serious and something in us says: someone was buried here. That is architecture. Adolf Loos, Architecture, 1910 Monuments, memorials and the architecture of death recall the most profound archetypes of building from our collective unconscious: from the brutal power of the burial mound to the terrible loneliness of the single memorial in a crowd of gravestones or in the repetitive grid of a columbarium, these are structures which have the power to touch us and provoke the existential angst which is the engine of the human mind.