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themes to be debated
countries.
aspirations
challenge
to ItS potency
of the more
received
an implicit
The accepted
modern
of
At the same
it cannot be a monument,"
it is not modern,
as Lewis Mumford
and If It IS
Modern Architecture
Hitchcock's
Romanticism and Remteqreuon (1929) had helped to Inculcate this Idea Yet the
between "new traditionalists"
dichotomy
oversimplification
realized
collective
was an
and symbolic
needed
movement
had
to be infused With a
League of
103-6
returned
reintroduction
scandal
examples
to hierarchical
of decorative
provoked
of International
massing,
elements
modernism
symmetrical
progressive
ideology.
In a catalogue
introduction
Mock lauded
a prize-winning
expression
for an exhibition
and
held at the
Built in U.S. A.
1932 1944,
O C., as a monument
of the effort by
monumental
and a cautious
architects
planning,
for some of
epitomizing
democracy."
Sigfried Giedion, Jos Luis Sert, and Fernand Lger entered the
debate
historian, an architect-planner,
and
all living In New York dUring the war years and in close contact
by an architectural
was
for publication
In a volume planned
A more extended
by the American
discussion
Abstract
Artists
by the American
Abstract
Artists,
to the monumentality
The approach
Monumentality"
cultural needs"
architecture
mundane
large-scale
"the expression
evolution
of community
free of association
and publiC
of architects,
and
ensembles,
monumental
of man's highest
of modernism
to concentrate
spectacles.
planners,
the postwar
planning
problems
question.
taken In both the "Nine POints" and "The Need for a New
naturalistic
materials
of
was proposed.
Brancusi.
Naum Gabo,
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