Sam Jacob Studio has created a replica of Adolf Loos? unrealized 1921 mausoleum in Highgate Cemetary, London, which is home to the graves of Karl Marx and Malcolm McLaren, amongst other notable figures.

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Sam Jacob Studio has created a replica of Adolf Loos? unrealized 1921 mausoleum in Highgate Cemetary, London, which is home to the graves of Karl Marx and Malcolm McLaren, amongst other notable figures.

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Commissioned by the Architecture Foundation, the project?entitled A Very Small Part of Architecture??resurrects? the Austrian Modernist architect?s radically simple mausoleum design for art historian Max Dvorák.The project is recreated at a 1:1 scale using a lightweight timber frame and scaffold net, creating ?a ghostly reenactment of an unrealized architectural idea.?
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The title of the project is taken from Loos? 1910 essay Architecture, in which he asserts that ?only a very small part of architecture belongs to the realm of art: the tomb and the monument.?

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Built within Highgate Cemetery, amongst the many monuments and memorials to the dead, A Very Small Part Of Architecture makes a different kind of memorial. Not one dedicated to a person, an event or a moment in time, not designed to remember the past but instead to imagine other possibilities, altered presents and alternative fu...