Many of us have a distinct sense of what we think constitutes a fitting statue in honor of a great figure. That image comes from the 18th century, and “when we visualize one of these heroes, we are almost always referencing Jean-Antoine Houdon’s brilliant sculptural portraits. Between 1775 and 1789 he sculpted the men of letters and of the nobility of Europe and America.”
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30 Spaces for the 21st Century
“Our old ideas about space have exploded. The past three decades have produced more change in more cultures than any other time in history. Radically accelerated growth, deregulation, and globalization have redrawn our familiar maps and reset the parameters: Borders are inscribed and permeated, control zones imposed and violated, jurisdictions declared and ignored, markets pumped up and punctured. And at the same time, entirely new spatial conditions, demanding new definitions, have emerged.” Rem Koolhaas has no shortage of ideas on the future of space, from legislative gluts to the art of miniaturization to virtual space.