Landscape had a decisive function in the common perception of a burial ground in the collective memory. This perception, which is fairly intrinsic in southern European tradition, largely disappeared in the second half of the twentieth century, to resurface in certain enlightened though dissimilar examples. The essay, that investigates on the “modern” attitude to design cemeteries in Italy and Mediterranean countries, comes from a symposium organized at Berkeley University the assembled a number of scholars and professionals to discuss the role of memory found or built in the environment and the role of cultural landscapes in landscape architecture, and connections between the arts and environmental design.
The Mediterranean Cemetery: Landscape as Collective Memory
LATINI, LUIGI
2009-01-01
Abstract
Landscape had a decisive function in the common perception of a burial ground in the collective memory. This perception, which is fairly intrinsic in southern European tradition, largely disappeared in the second half of the twentieth century, to resurface in certain enlightened though dissimilar examples. The essay, that investigates on the “modern” attitude to design cemeteries in Italy and Mediterranean countries, comes from a symposium organized at Berkeley University the assembled a number of scholars and professionals to discuss the role of memory found or built in the environment and the role of cultural landscapes in landscape architecture, and connections between the arts and environmental design.
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