
monument |ˈmɒnjʊm(ə)nt|
noun
a statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a notable person or event. • a statue or other structure placed over a grave in memory of the dead. • a building, structure, or site that is of historical importance or interest: the amphitheatre is one of the many Greek monuments in Sicily. • an enduring and memorable example of something: recordings that are a monument to the art of playing the piano. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a burial place): via French from Latin monumentum, from monere ‘remind’.
folly |ˈfɒli|
1 [ mass noun ] lack of good sense; foolishness: an act of sheer folly. • [ count noun ] a foolish act, idea, or practice: the follies of youth. 2 a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park. 3 ( Follies )a theatrical revue with glamorous female performers: [ in names ] : the Ziegfeld Follies. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French folie ‘madness’, in modern French also ‘delight, favourite dwelling’ (compare with sense 2), from fol ‘fool, foolish’.
...Tschumi's follies intentionally ignored their contexts, laid in a regular grid over a fairy irregular shaped park and each cube following rules of transformation rather than of use. Jacques Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction, disregard for hierarchy and order, allows new meanings to be read from the structures rather than imposing historical pre-conceptions.

So do we let the memories of our history fade so that we can create Tschumi's dis-junctions, or do we aim to preserve the memories that create a readable, linear history?
More on this:
Spomeniks - http://www.meta-magazine.com/articles/spomenik-the-monuments-of-former-yugoslavia
Parc de la Villette - http://archidose.org/wp/1999/02/01/parc-de-la-villette/
Spomeniks - http://www.meta-magazine.com/articles/spomenik-the-monuments-of-former-yugoslavia
Parc de la Villette - http://archidose.org/wp/1999/02/01/parc-de-la-villette/
Spomenik book preview - http://issuu.com/romapublications/docs/spomenik_preview
Nice! reminds me og the communist HQ in Bulgaria; i'll post link to it.
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