Death Design Data Berlin Chipperfield Architects

Chipperfield Architects

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Death Design Data Berlin Chipperfield ArchitectsFor millennia death has been celebrated in multiple ways and forms, defining funeral practices as the most central of all rites. Mortality does not seem to affect us until we are suddenly touched by it directly. Memento mori, in Latin 'remember you must die', is not a gloomy reminder of our human destiny, but to invigorate life. This book is an offering, as well as a gentle reminder of the ephemerality of life, split between our physical, but also our