Memento Mori. Urban Space and Funerary Commemoration in the Cemeteries by Willem Dudok, Jože Plečnik, and Francisco Salamone in Hilversum, Ljubljana, and Azul

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.8157

Keywords:

Cemetery, Garden-City, Funerary-Architecture, Dudok, Plečnik, Salamone

Abstract

In the 18th century, the new hygienist policies separated cemeteries from the church, expelling them out of the urban realm. At the beginning of the 20th century, the functional city as defined at the CIAM conferences pleaded for zoning, while ignoring commemoration. However, in the 1930s, a series of funerary proposals by architects working in medium-sized towns gave them the chance to elaborate a closer relationship between the city and its cemetery. This article aims at comparing the designs by Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia, by Willem Dudok in Hilversum, The Netherlands, and Francisco Salamone in Azul, Argentina, in order to analyze how their cemeteries were the starting point to foster a closer link with the urban realm and to confer those towns with a new identity. 

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Author Biography

Marta García Carbonero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España

PhD in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Master in Garden and Landscape History at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. Her PhD thesis on 20th Century European cemeteries was awarded the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Prize for outstanding dissertations. At this university she teaches theory and history of architecture and landscape. A Fulbright fellow, she has been visiting scholar at the Neederlands Architekturinstitut in Rotterdam, the Architekturmuseet in Stockholm, the Arhitehturni Muzej in Ljubljiana, the Institute of Historical Research in London and the University of Litoral, in Santa Fe, Argentina. Since 2021 she is secretary of EAHN-European Architectural History Network. Two six-year terms of her research have been officially acknowledged by CNEAI.

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Published

2023-12-19

How to Cite

García Carbonero, Marta. 2023. “Memento Mori. Urban Space and Funerary Commemoration in the Cemeteries by Willem Dudok, Jože Plečnik, and Francisco Salamone in Hilversum, Ljubljana, and Azul”. Atrio. Revista De Historia Del Arte, no. 29 (December). Sevilla, España:358-81. https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.8157.

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