Clock Tower (1940-1942)

摘要

While the death knell, the tolling of the bells is part of the traditional burial ceremony to announce the passing of a person, Lewerentz placed the Clock Tower to the side of the berm, visible and audible to the mourners while approaching the Crematory Chapels from the main gate and next to the ridge line of the berm, on which a row of wheat is sown and harvested every year. Lewerentz began his search for the right form of the Clock Tower by referring to vernacular precedents in the same way that lhe row of wheat is an agricultural metaphor, standing for the never ending repetition of the cycle of life. Though, the bell tolls for a deceased, the survivors maintain the deceased person's life through their collective memory.