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An interview with the photographer Jason Francisco.

As heroic statues fall out of vogue, communities have turned to experimental structures – from flourishing gardens to abstract sculptures – as monuments to loss on a vast scale

Metropolis Memorials Are for the Living Eddie Blake and Gian Luca Amadei question how architecture can help us contemplate loss and memory in the age of COVID-19. Courtesy John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Memorials aren’t for the dead; they are for those still living. As episodes of remembrance, they also inform new memory, reversing the way we think about time: instead of the past forming the present, the act of memorialization shapes history and thus how we access the past. But how do we create memorials when those who are left behind agree on so little? For centuries, arch...