It's not every day that a book comes out on a brutalist necropolis; so when 'Chacarita Moderna' appeared in our inbox, we stood up and took notice. The publication, out this month by Building Books, is the brainchild of French architect, researcher, and curator Léa Namer, who came across thesite of the Sexto Panteón necropolis during a visit to Buenos Aires in Argentina ten years ago.
Namer recalls of her first visit there: 'In 2014, a French architect friend introduced me to the Sexto Panteón. I was returning to Buenos Aires after having done a university exchange there a few years earlier . I still vividly recall the first time I descended the stairs into that underworld. With images of Greek mythology in my mind, I felt like Orpheus entering the depths of Hell.''The experience had a profound impact on me.