Following thought on the role of architecture designed as an art whose function is to meet the needs of the living in the performance of their daily activities, this text concerns the way in which this art – frequently associated with sculpture for this purpose – also takes on perpetuating the memory of the deceased. Since architectural work is by nature indissociable from the site on which it has been erected, particular attention will be paid to the types of sites selected for erecting monuments. To be considered successively are the place of death, the burial site and the places holding symbolic value with respect to the lives of the departed. This reflection will stress the quite varied ways whereby architecture manages to highlight the various dimensions of our relationship to death and to those who have come before us.