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Goodbye architecture : de architectuur van crematoria in Europa
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ISBN: 9789462084247 9789462084230 9462084246 9789462084377 9789462084346 9462084238 Year: 2018 Publisher: Rotterdam nai010 Uitgevers

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As people make considered choices about their own lives and deaths, cremation has become an increasingly popular option in Europe, representing a recent but accelerating change in funerary practices. What do these spaces actually look like? What role does architecture play in these rituals? Considering precisely these questions, the authors of Goodbye Architecture embarked on a unique tour of European architecture. For the first time, the spaces and practices of cremation-the sites of some of our deepest desires and fears about life and death-receive serious architectural consideration. A wide range of facilities are documented in this volume with extensive illustrations and analyses, providing a glimpse of an essential architecture often hidden in plain sight.


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a2o-architecten : Statie Stuifduin
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ISBN: 9789462084957 9462084955 Year: 2018 Publisher: Rotterdam nai010 publishers

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Dans cet ouvrage, les architectes du bureau belge a2o mettent en lumière leur approche de l'architecture axée sur la recherche et la mise en relation à travers une lecture évocatrice de leur dernier projet, le complexe de crématorium baptisé "Statie Stuifduin", situé à Lommel, en Belgique. La maîtrise de l'ouvrage s'illustre dans la combinaison d'une architecture sobre et d'un paysage recréé au sein d'une successivité d'espaces. L'harmonie ainsi composée invite à une déambulation processionnaire, propice à la réflexion et à la relecture des codes intemporels et des attitudes mouvantes vis-à-vis de la mort, des rites d'adieu et de la traversée de l'existence. En l'absence de symboles religieux explicites, la puissance universelle de la nature remplace le sacré et l'esprit se plonge dans la thématique romantique de la quête de sens au sein d'une nature redécouverte. Ce faisant, Stadie Stuifduin transcende les particularités d'un édifice avec un fil conducteur : qu'est-ce que l'architecture funéraire contemporaine ? In this book, Belgian architecture office a2o presents an investigative and connecting approach to architecture through an evocative reading of their latest project, crematorium Statie Stuifduin in Lommel, Belgium. This thoughtful yet radical design blends architecture and landscape in a succession of spaces that reveals a deep understanding of both the fundamental aspects of and changing attitudes towards death, burial and the journey of life. Rather than through explicit religious symbols, the sacral is represented by the universal power of nature and by Romantic notions of finding meaning in rediscovered nature. In doing so, Statie Stuifduin goes beyond the specifics of the building to explore new visions of what contemporary funeral architecture can be.

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