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Architecture: Monumental choices
MICHAL BONCZA reviews an exhibition exploring the function of memorials and how we respond to them
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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David Adjaye: Making Memory
Design Museum
London W8
THE IDEOLOGICAL intent in “making memory” via memorials and monuments which relate particular architectural narratives demands nuanced consideration, quite aside from the mere aesthetics involved in housing such endeavours.
Where, for example, is the moral equivalence between the patriotic war memorials of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington?
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