Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morison's statue upholds the popular Cambridge and Boston monument style. Like many other sites around the area, it depicts a man and his message. In Morison's case, the message speaks to his philosophy on life...
According to Anthony Tonelli '51 of Boston's Beacon Street, the Boylston Street monument helps immortalize Morison, who died...
Morison's statue upholds the popular Cambridge and Boston monument style. Like many other sites around the city, it depicts a man and his message. In Morison's case, the message speaks to his philosophy on life...
According to Anthony Tonelli '51 of Boston's Beacon Street, the Boylston Street monument helps immortalize Morison, who died...
Foster can handle both with equal aplomb. In 1993 he completed a cultural center for the French city of Nimes, in Provence. It is right next to the city's most famous Roman monument, the so-called Maison Carree--a Corinthian temple dedicated to Augustus' sons in the year A.D. 4. It was Thomas Jefferson's favorite classical building--in fact, Jefferson based his whole conception of Neo-Classical architecture on it--and one obviously had to approach such a historical object with caution. Would the solution be a pastiche historical arts center? Foster was sure not. "I went there...