Author Archives: Karla Rothstein

Living death: confronting mortality and associated practices of care

By Karla Rothstein and Christina Staudt 24 March 2021 Death

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The Covid-19 pandemic is driving a more humane rethink on care at the end of life and after death

Typology: Tombs

16 September 2015 By Tom Wilkinson

A sealed volume, the tomb has no interior – or if it…

Housing the dead

31 October 2016 By Ken Worpole

Environmental, economic and cultural factors have all shaped funerary architecture throughout the…

Cherry Orchard Cemetery by Fieldoffice Architects: ‘a subtle conversation between man and nature’

1 November 2016 By Kate Goodwin

Fieldoffice Architects has created a space in which both the living and…

Dying with Dignitas

2 November 2016 By Jack Self

Confronted with the legality of suicide, the Swiss authorities have struggled to…

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Memory loss: post-terrorist sites in Norway

10 January 2020 By Charlotte Heath-Kelly

At sites of terrorist atrocities, buildings become much more than physical edifices, they encapsulate place-associations and entrench symbolic meaning

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Dust to dust: Bushey New Cemetery, Hertfordshire, UK, by Waugh Thistleton Architects

3 February 2020 By Catherine Slessor

The rammed-earth pavilions of Waugh Thistleton’s Bushey New Cemetery provide an elegant and sober…

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