Innovations Dealing With Death

March 21, 2016 by: Ben Heimsath

The cemetery’s days may be numbered. In the future, though death continues to be inevitable, how our culture deals with it may not be. At my alma mater, Columbia University, an active group of architects, philosophers, ecologists, and planners are reconsidering the options we have in the rituals and final repose for humans after they die. DeathLab is a project headed by Karla Maria Rothstein, a ... Read More

Sacred Architecture / Sustainable Design