Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dream, I'm walking up to Boylston St. to the Square. Students rush past me carrying hammers, wire and nails. I get to the Square and see that they are constructing a gigantic monument on top of the MBTA station. All at once, the swarm of student workmen scrambles down. Suddenly the monument begins to revolve, and I perceive that it is a huge, flashing, revolving, three-story, red neon "A", A CRIMSON extra is thrust into my hands. I read half-way down; "The students said that they had constructed the A to show their love of and appreciation...
There were a hundred proposals for memorials to John Kennedy within a week of his assassination, but it soon became clear that the Kennedy Library on the banks of the Charles was to be the nation's principal monument to its 35th President. Kennedy himself had visited Harvard to select a site. The family, along with an advisory committee of artists and architects headed by William Walton, began the process of choosing an architect in the early months of last year...
...Handstands. It is ironic that the commission for a monument should go to an architect who believes that his colleagues are too often overwhelmed with their own edifice complex. Pei holds that doing a handstand in marble on a street-corner site while ignoring the neighbors is an irresponsible posture for an architect. "What's there must influence what comes later," he says. "But architecture must not do violence to space or to its neighbors." Architects must, he believes, "realize that open space is just as important as the shaft, the pile, the solid masses...
...statues go, Lusaka's bronze monument to Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes is pretty run-of-the-horse. It weighs seven tons, stands only slightly larger than life size and, with somewhat oxidized symbolism, depicts Rhodes as a naked Apollo, riding fearlessly onward astride a magnificent prancing stallion. Donated to the city four years ago by the Rhodes-founded British South Africa Co., the statue soon became the object of all self-respecting Zambians' hatred...
...thing, the horse's rump was turned disdainfully on the Ministry of Finance building. More important, as far as Zambians were concerned, it was a monument not so much to Rhodes as to the despised Sir Godfrey Huggins, who, as Prime Minister of the now-disbanded Central African Federation, had offered an ill-considered definition of the ideal relationship between Africa's blacks and whites. The two races, Sir Godfrey had said in 1954, should work together like a horse and rider- the whites of course being in the saddle and the blacks under...