Submitted by Jonathan Budd
Nine Points on Monumentality {1943}
Architecture News - Jun 17, 2008 - 14:29 10421 views
The last hundred years have witnessed the devaluation of monumentality. This does not mean that there is any lack of formal monuments or architectural examples pretending to serve this purpose: but the so called monuments of recent date have, with rare exceptions, become empty shells. They in no way represent the spirit or the collective feeling of modern times.
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