Can architecture console mourners as they experience the pain that accompanies grief?

Although grief seems an unlikely companion for architecture, in embracing this complex emotion architects are building spaces for mourning and memorialization that carry an awareness of death and bereavement. Ceremonies for the loss of a loved one
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