Reflections 004
Forever home
Apr 2025
(Fig. 01) Almudena Cemetery, Madrid. Image: Google Earth
(Fig. 02) Valdemingómez landfill, Madrid. Image: Google Earth.
Most graves are anonymous spaces. Rows of identical niches, standardised gravestones that repeat names and dates with no other ambition than to mark an absence. In ordinary cemeteries, death erases the uniqueness of the individual, reducing him to a minimal inscription in stone.
(Fig. 03) The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema screenshots, Slavoj Žižek. the conversation 1974 https://archive.org/details/the-perverts-guide-to-cinema
(Fig. 04) San Cataldo Cemetery, Aldo Rossi.
(Fig. 05) Loose products move through Amazon’s center in yellow crates.
When an architect designs his own tomb, the tombstone becomes a manifesto: a last project, a gesture where death is not only disappearance, but the definitive affirmation of an identity. This swan song is perhaps a stubborn imprint of the ego. Or a reminder that architects’ crimes last far beyond their lifetimes.
(Fig. 06)
Le Corbusier’s Grave. Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, 1958-1965.