Thursday, December 9, 2010
Monumentality
Louis Kahn makes the comment in his essay entitled "Monumentality" that it "cannot be intentionally created". After considering the reasoning he presented following that statement I cannot help but agree. Would you say that in the studio you see students who try to make their projects this grand ideal that if it were constucted then it would stand for all time, evoke extreme emotion, and become a precident to be followed for centuries to come? Or do you find your work and those around you to be something that tries to be a structure that is the embodiment of the passions, dreams, history, and culture of those who will use the structure?
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Monuments "cannot be intentionally created."
Taking this point from another tactic . . . who venerated the monument? This is a question of the valuation between the then observed and the observer . . . what about the Ground Zero memorial? The value of the Lincoln Memorial changed after MLK. What about the Taj Mahal and the story of its making (eternal love)? What makes a monument omnipresent in the minds of a populace? Is there anything an architect can do make this happen?
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