ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Sacrifice, a rare alternative to the Elysium and Loop types, through Coop Himmelb(l)au’s body of work since the early 2000s. With its references to Soviet avant-garde tropes, symbols of a once-revolutionary modernism, this iconic work summons the lost critical object of the discipline and its false conception of modernism as an opiate (a corrective or saviour), which replaced its original revolutionary purpose. Unlike the first two types, which repress the original sin of the failures of modern architecture, the Sacrifice uses technology to address history, to reflect on death and modernity in the digital surface.
