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...took the U.S. 72 years to acknowledge its debt. In 1952 Congress passed a law that provided a "suitable" monument for Brumidi's grave, and an endowment for its upkeep. That was the least it could do for the immigrant artist who signed his name simply: "C. Brumidi, artist, citizen...
...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...
...Step Pyramid itself is a monument to Imhotep. It was built as the tomb of Pharaoh Zoser, who reigned about 2980 B.C., but Imhotep was its architect. And because it is the oldest stone pyramid, the Egyptians have credited Imhotep with inventing the art of building with cut stone. He was also Zoser's prime minister, a magician, sage, proverb maker, and patron of the scribes who ran the Egyptian bureaucracy. Century by century through Egypt's long history his reputation grew. During the Ptolemaic dynasty (323-30 B.C.), when Greeks ruled Egypt, he was identified with Asclepius...
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...