#monumentality – @nickkahler on Tumblr

Often in structures of monumentality, of seeming permanence and stability, there is an underlying fragility and transience that threatens the life of the urban entity. The city represents a fragile compact between the forces of nature and those of human desire and inequality.

Matthew Picton, "On London 1940," 2012

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The scale of Land Art is simply colossal and measures its duration according to geological time. It competes with that ageless dimension one attributes to the archetypes of monumentality, from Stonehenge to the pyramids.

Massimiliano Gioni, "Ask the Dust" from Unmonumental, 2007

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Monumental [modernist] architecture will be something more than strictly functional. It will have regained its lyrical value.

Josep Lluis Sert, Fernand Leger, and Sigfried Giedion, Nine Points on Monumentality, 1943

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Today modern architects know that buildings cannot be conceived as isolated units, that they have to be incorporated into the vaster urban schemes. There are no frontiers between architecture and town planning, just as there are no frontiers between the city and the region. Correlation between them is necessary. Monuments should constitute the most powerful accents in these vast schemes. ... A monument being the integration of the work of the planner, architect, painter, sculptor, and landscapist demands close collaboration between all of them.

Josep Lluis Sert, Fernand Leger, and Sigfried Giedion, Nine Points on Monumentality, 1943

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nickkahler

Monuments are the expression of manʹs highest cultural needs. They have to satisfy the eternal demand of the people for translation of their collective force into symbols. The most vital monuments are those which express the feeling and thinking of this collective force‐the people.

Josep Lluis Sert, Fernand Leger, and Sigfried Giedion, Nine Points on Monumentality, 1943

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Monuments are human landmarks which men have created as symbols for their ideals, for their aims, and for their actions. They are intended to outlive the period which originated them, and constitute a heritage for future generations. As such, they form a link between the past and the future.

Josep Lluis Sert, Fernand Leger, and Sigfried Giedion, Nine Points on Monumentality, 1943

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