RELATED MATERIAL
The American Funeral Home
An investigation of the contemporary American funeral home.
Funeral Homes Photo Documentation
IAA Photographic Documentation of the American Funeral Home
Natural Light
An advanced environmental system for the home.
Simetery
Cemetery design and simulation software.
source: http://advancedarchitecture.org
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ADA Architecture, New York City, 2001
Building Sound, Los Angeles, 2004
Taste Ground, Columbus Ohio, 2003
Open House - The American Funeral Home, Boston, 2002
Artificial Intelligibility, San Diego, 2003
Open House - The American Funeral Home. Philadelphia, 2003



Open House - The American Funeral Home, Boston, 2002

The Institute for Advanced Architecture first showed its ongoing research into the American Funeral Home at the Oni Gallery in Boston. Opening on January 26, 2001 and running for a month, the "exhibit explore[d] the paradoxes in the timeless dynamism of post-modernity epitomized, through the catalysis of death, in the American funeral home."

Featured: selected photographic documentation; several Natural Lights; the Simetery CAD program; the build-it-yourself "IKEA" coffin and transluscent "I-Urn"; and educational posters.

visit: Oni Gallery