Vignettes of death: architecture and the death drive To Lissi Holm, January 1960-June 2005
Vignettes of death: architecture and the death drive To Lissi Holm, January 1960-June 2005
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死亡小插曲:建筑与死亡驱动 致 Lissi Holm,1960 年 1 月至 2005 年 6 月
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8705.2007.00786.x
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2007
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0.2
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HOLM L
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HOLM L
This paper explores the relation between architecture and death. It is a response to John Tercier’s The Contemporary Deathbed: The Ultimate Rush, which is about the reception in popular culture of death and medical practice. It will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the death drive. Rather than produce the master narrative of death and architecture, it consists of architectural vignettes of death, including the zombie, the Vitruvian man, the Steadicam man of TV-vérité, the Parthenon, the empty house.A word on methodology: this paper is not a survey, but a montage. The standard for montage is not truth, but cohesion or intelligibility. The vignettes were chosen because they could be joined up to make a picture of the death drive. Montage is thematic in my paper; indeed, Lacan argues that the drive is a montage. I am an architect: the logic behind the selection of vignettes has the whiff of the bricoleur about it–the make-do engineer, the opportunist, the cobbler who selects things because they fit. 1