The temple crematorium in the Monumental Cemetery in Milan Considerations on the project of the Memorial stone to the fallen in the forest of Cercina Edoardo Detti and Carlo Scarpa

Abstract

In the 60s Edoardo Detti and Carlo Scarpa design a memorial headstone in memory of seven supporters killed by the Germans in 1944, which was to be built in Cercina near Florence. The only remains of this small monument are some sketches by Scarpa and a finalized drawing by Detti, little known but very interesting, which document the compositional research of the laic expression, pluralistic of death and pain, as a universal answer, inclusive and non-dogmatic, the need to represent the wounds of the war and their cargo of political, ethnic and religious lacerations. The search for universal symbolism, capable of comprehending the different souls of modern society, also belongs to individual architectural production of the two architects and is inscribed in the contemporary architectural and cultural context.