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Monumentality
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Monumentality
The following paper discusses architecture and questions whether it can create a specific experience for those who view it.
2,080 words (approx. 8.3 pages) |
24 sources |
2001
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Paper Summary:
This paper examines architecture with all its elements and styles. It examines how some structures are strictly utilitarian whilst other structures are designed to commemorate historic or mythological persons or events, and/or inspire feelings of awe, pride, sadness, or even anger. The writer focuses monumental structures and responses they evoke.From the paper:
?These structures are monumental. According to "A Dictionary of Architecture", a monumental is ?a building intended as a monument or looking like one; or a building that is formal, impressive, very large, and permanent, probably intended to overawe.? This monumentality, seen so clearly in the architecture of ancient Rome, is also a vital element of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.?
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Monumentality (2012, February 10). Retrieved February 11, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Monumentality/4035
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"Monumentality" 10 February 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Monumentality/4035>
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