This book looks at structures and buildings built in response to death. Death can create different, wonderful, dazzling and unique architectural challenges; these challenges tend to more than just representing a physical process but embody symbols beliefs, and culture. Monument Builders depicts this phenomenon that a lot people tend to avoid, because it’s based on the topic of death, the concept necropolis is not something discussed a lot in the architectural world. The book however represents different views of death and how death is expresses throughout the 20th Century, ranging from neo-classical ideas to holocaust memorials and more projects.
I reccomend this read, because the photos are attention grabbing, and it shows a journey based on the architecture of death, with wide range of architects, showing how different cultures and time periods have different but subtle approach to such a difficult task.