A dialectic in a state of rest. The project for a new Pesaro cemetery by Luciano Semerani and Gigetta Tamaro.

Abstract

This essay proposes an interpretation of the project for a new Pesaro cemetery developed by Luciano Semerani and Gigetta Tamaro in 1979. The fundamental reason why it is considered important to reflect on this unrealized project lies in the exemplary way in which the two architects conceived and developed the project’s forms, pursuing an analogy between those of the “city of the living” and those of the “city of the dead”. This analogy defines the project’s metahistorical space, favouring, in other words, the conception of a symbolic space to which the political task of passing on the common learning on death is entrusted to the life of the city, while each individual is guaranteed a spiritual request which allows him or her to keep a dialogue with the deceased alive.

Keywords

• architettura dei cimiteri
• città per parti
• memoria urbana
• esperienza del simbolo
• culto dei morti