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A Monument for an Earthquake‐Rotated Monument

Seismological Research Letters, 2015
During the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, numerous objects in the mesoseismal zone were rotated (Cucci and Tertulliani, 2011). One prominent earthquake‐rotated object (ERO) is a war memorial in the small town of Paganica, a community that suffered European Macroseismic Scale intensity XIII damage.
Klaus‐G. Hinzen, Sharon K. Reamer
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Monument and MYTH*

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1979
ABSTRACT The Basilica of Sacre-Coeur, which strategically and symbolically dominates the northern skyline of Paris, has a strange and tortured history. Conceived of in the course of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, its construction was seen by many as an act of penitence for the moral decadence of the Second Empire of Napoleon III as well as for the
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Monuments et films-monuments

Sociologie de l'Art, 2005
Résumé De manière générique, nous avons appelé « entrepreneurs de mémoire » les individus qui se fixent pour objectif de modifier la « mémoire collective » d’une entité sociale telle qu’une nation. À partir du cas de la mémorialisation de la guerre du Vietnam au États-Unis, nous avons tenté de montrer que cette entreprise de construction ou de ...
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Monumental nets

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery, 2009
This piece was fabricated using the same techniques employed for Her Secret Is Patience (page 6). Buro Happold created custom software to rationalize the given shape, conduct form-finding and analysis, and output instruction drawings for the fabrication of the net. The final, doubly curved form is resolved by graduating cell sizes, and by using baiting,
Janet Echelman, Ian Keough
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Fear and loathing in monuments: Rethinking the politics and practices of monumentality and monumentalization

Memory Studies, 2021
Monuments—and the function and import of monumentality and practices of monumentalization—are currently under incredible scrutiny. Should historical statues of racist figures and pasts be left as they are or removed and destroyed? Should they be rehomed in statue parks intended as final resting places for disgraced statues?
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Building as Monument

AB. Arhitektov bilten, 2019
While the production of monuments under the socialism in Yugoslavia is receiving international exposure during recent years, architectural typologies that hybridized commemoration and specific forms of social life are being overlooked. Using case-studies of cultural centres in Kolašin and Nikšić in Montenegro, this paper with examine the transfer of ...
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On the monumentality of ditches

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2021
Timothy D Everhart
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A Monument to Resistance

2018
L’architettura, arte eminentemente tautologica, sembra da anni incapace di prestarsi a strumento di dialogo con tutti quei cittadini che oramai la interpretano come ostacolo alla loro capacità di espressione. E’ percepita nella sua rigidezza come immutabile e oppressiva e gli architetti additati come cattivi maestri, distruttori di luoghi e paesaggi ...
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