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When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters – or does it? But how else can we measure monumentality? Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches in both theoretical contributions and various case studies. While focusing on architectural aspects, this volume also discusses the social meaning of monuments, the role of forced and free labour, as well as textual monumentality. The result is a modern interdisciplinary take on an important concept which is notoriously difficult to define. When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters – or does it? But how else can we measure monumentality? Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches in both theoretical contributions and various case studies. While focusing on architectural aspects, this volume also discusses the social meaning of monuments, the role of forced and free labour, as well as textual monumentality. The result is a modern interdisciplinary take on an important concept which is notoriously difficult to define.

Helaine Silverman shows in this article the complex implications for the archaeological perspective of the relationships between monumental buildings and political-social organization. This theme is developed in the case of the Nasca culture and especially, the monumental site of Cahuachi. ; Helaine Silverman muestra en este artículo las complejas implicancias que tiene para la perspectiva arqueológica las relaciones entre las construcciones monumentales y la organización político-social. Tal temática la desarrolla para el caso de la cultura Nasca y en especial, el sitio monumental de Cahuachi.

When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters - or does it? But how else can we measure monumentality? Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches in both theoretical contributions and various case studies. While focusing on architectural aspects, this volume also discusses the social meaning of monuments, the role of forced and free labour, as well as textual monumentality. The result is a modern interdisciplinary take on an important concept which is notoriously difficult to define.

Only a few Yugoslav architects attended Post-war CIAMs, whose reception in Yugoslavia was rather lukewarm. This may perhaps suffice to question the role of Yugoslavia in the European and international architectural debate. However, to understand the importance acquired by memorials and monumental architecture in Yugoslavia, contrary to the Modernist orthodoxy, a series of historical events should come into focus. In Yugoslavia, architects internalized monuments as a specific design field, and monumentality as a quality to achieve. Along this line of thoughts, this paper ends by exploring the 1957 architectural design competition for the Jajinci Memorial in Belgrade, arguing that the architectural representation of state socialism, all but univocal, was actually defying stereotypes, and that the generation emerging in the decade 1950-1960 marked a true political, social and cultural watershed.

Only a few Yugoslav architects attended Post-War CIAMs, whose reception in Yugoslavia was rather lukewarm. This may perhaps suffice to question the role of Yugoslavia in the European and international architectural debate. However, to understand the importance acquired by memorials and monumental architecture in Yugoslavia, contrary to the Modernist orthodoxy, a series of historical events should come into focus. In Yugoslavia, architects internalized monuments as a specific design field, and monumentality as a quality to achieve. Along this line of thoughts, this paper ends by exploring the 1957 architectural design competition for the Jajinci Memorial in Belgrade, arguing that the architectural representation of state socialism, all but univocal, was actually defying stereotypes, and that the generation emerging in the decade 1950-1960 marked a true political, social and cultural watershed. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

A lo largo de la historia, las sociedades siempre han pretendido inmortalizar a través de la vitrina de las ciudades lo que para ellas esta revestido de importancia y valor superior. Esa necesidad de crear lugares visibles y notables ha persistido por miles de años desde Mesopotamia hasta nuestros días, impulsando a las civilizaciones a crear estructuras que van desde lo religioso, pasando por grandes murallas que representaban poderío y seguridad, hasta estructuras de naturaleza comercial o artística. Esta expresión es lo que hoy conocemos como la monumentalidad, atributo urbano que está revestido de gran importancia en virtud de ser un elemento embellecedor y estructurador de la trama urbana, un planificador visual, una garantía social, cultural, educacional, ecológica e identitaria dentro de la ciudad. La monumentalidad además de ser un elemento multifuncional de gran significación para la ciudad, es un derecho colectivo emergente y novedoso, pero a su vez exigible dentro de ese gran espacio público donde confluyen un sin número de relaciones humanas, intimas, colectivas, institucionales, políticas, comerciales y culturales; donde se produce la evolución social y psicológica de los seres humanos que es la ciudad. ; Throughout history societies have always pretended to immortalize through the window of the cities which for them is coated of importance and superior value. This need to create visible and notable places has persisted for thousands of years, from Mesopotamia to the present day, boosting civilizations to create structures ranging from religion through large walls representing power and security, to structures of a commercial nature or artistic. This expression is what we know today as the monumentality, urban attribute that is covered with great importance by virtue of being a trim and structuring element of the urban fabric, a visual planner, social, cultural, educational; ecological and identity assurance within the city. The monumentality besides being a multifunctional element of great significance for the city is an emerging and innovative collective right, but at the same time demanding within that public space where an endless number of humans confluence, intimate, collective, institutional, political, commercial and cultural; where social and psychological development of human beings occurs, which is the city. ; 71-97 ; lopezqjuan@yahoo.com ; Semestral

peerreview_statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope. aims_and_scope_url: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ctte20 ; peerreview_statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope. aims_and_scope_url: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ctte20 ; peerreview_statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope. aims_and_scope_url: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ctte20 ; peerreview_statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope. aims_and_scope_url: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ctte20 ; This text compares and contrasts two monumental architectural ensembles: Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication in Kliptown, Johannesburg, opened in 2005 by President Thabo Mbeki; and The Palace of Culture and Science, a Stalinist skyscraper 'gifted' to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. This architectural juxtaposition serves as the point of departure for the text's two, interconnected key themes: an inquiry into the complex continuities and contradictions between the political and economic reconfigurations experienced by South Africa after 1994 and Poland after 1989; and an exploration into what the author defines as the 'political morphology' of monumental architecture. The bulk of the text is concerned with a critical investigation into how scholars conceive of the relationship between the morphological (spatial, geometric and aesthetic) characteristics of built form, and their political or economic correlates. Must there be – as the scholarly consensus suggests – an intrinsic connection between democracy and architectural humility, and between authoritarianism and monumentality?

This article explores the space of the National Museum Australia as a complex interplay between different spatial levels, and the way in which this interplay enables the NMA to foreground internal tensions architecturally. I am also interested in the way these internal tensions contribute towards creating representations of spaces as politically charged. I argue that the space of the NMA should be read as riven with tension between monumental space and what I refer to as protean monumental space. The tension between the monumental and the protean monumental is always already entailed within the spatial practice and spatial representation of producing the NMA's space. This tension is internal and central to the museum itself, yet it is a tension that leads to a production of a 'third space' that is already predicated by the other two, or is revealed by the experiencing body of the museum visitor.