The dead, not unlike the sick, are historically quarantined from the space of the living. Spatial separation is a constituent of civilization and this is epitomized by an architectural and urban separation, indeed division, between the space of the dead and the space of the living. Cemeteries are historically located on the periphery, quartered off by a clearly demarcated boundary, or in a separate site altogether as it is called, the City of the Dead. Architecture manifests a clarity of distinction between the living and the dead as spatially distinct building block of civilization. Yet we know this cannot be the whole story. This paper will draw on the death drive from psychoanalytic theory to discuss an architecture of quarantine.

从历史上看，死者与生病的病人是一样的，是与生活空间隔离的。空间分离是文明的组成部分，死者空间与生活空间之间的建筑和城市分离（实际上是划分）体现了这一点。历史上，公墓位于外围，由清楚划定的边界四分之一，或者完全称为死者之城。建筑体现了生与死之间的区别，这是文明在空间上截然不同的组成部分。然而，我们知道这不可能是完整的故事。本文将利用精神分析理论的死亡驱动力来讨论隔离结构。