Monuments are a testimony to how the achievements of a person or the significance of an event can have such a remarkable impact in the future that we dedicate resources to memorializing them. When considering creation of a monument, an organization must consider not only the monetary and time expenses, but more primarily the symbolic value and environment of such a significant object.
The environment surrounding a memorial is largely comprised of the physical location and human community that the memorial will be around. This can raise issues for an organization who want to memorialize a certain person or event, who must consider the implications that installing a memorial has on the surrounding environment. Such an issue brought to question …show more content…
An organization must construct a memorial in such a way that effectively conveys the significance of the event or person, a job done well in document G. In this document, Maya Lin, the designer of the exalted Vietnam Veterans Memorial, discusses the details in conceptualizing a memorial that would “allow everyone to respond and remember.” (G) Lin accomplished this by using a simple yet striking design of all the known names of American soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. The memorial seems cut out of the earth, and on a black wall is simply scribed the names of those to be remembered. This is not only a cost-effective idea, but one that memorializes the Vietnam War veterans by providing “an interface, between our world and the quieter… a unity between the nation’s past and present.” (G) Organizations would make no mistake to follow in Lin’s ideology of the potency of simple designs that can provide the observers an incredible emotional experience. Such an experience for observers is also reflected in the statue of Christopher Columbus in source B. The statue is of a man mid-stride, hands grasped behind back, head tilted up and cape flowing behind. The stature of Columbus is powerful, as if to say “Look at this potency, look at what I can lay the foundation for.” While these thoughts flow through observers’ minds, emotions of pride and respect begin to show. The same two emotions may have been accomplished in a different physical design in Lin’s memorial, but they share the fact that they were driven into the observer by use of invocative and creative design. Such is shown the importance of properly creating a memorial that will bring feelings to the observer. Organizations must heavily consider the importance of making the memorial a symbol to be remembered, and therefore properly
The environment surrounding a memorial is largely comprised of the physical location and human community that the memorial will be around. This can raise issues for an organization who want to memorialize a certain person or event, who must consider the implications that installing a memorial has on the surrounding environment. Such an issue brought to question …show more content…
An organization must construct a memorial in such a way that effectively conveys the significance of the event or person, a job done well in document G. In this document, Maya Lin, the designer of the exalted Vietnam Veterans Memorial, discusses the details in conceptualizing a memorial that would “allow everyone to respond and remember.” (G) Lin accomplished this by using a simple yet striking design of all the known names of American soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. The memorial seems cut out of the earth, and on a black wall is simply scribed the names of those to be remembered. This is not only a cost-effective idea, but one that memorializes the Vietnam War veterans by providing “an interface, between our world and the quieter… a unity between the nation’s past and present.” (G) Organizations would make no mistake to follow in Lin’s ideology of the potency of simple designs that can provide the observers an incredible emotional experience. Such an experience for observers is also reflected in the statue of Christopher Columbus in source B. The statue is of a man mid-stride, hands grasped behind back, head tilted up and cape flowing behind. The stature of Columbus is powerful, as if to say “Look at this potency, look at what I can lay the foundation for.” While these thoughts flow through observers’ minds, emotions of pride and respect begin to show. The same two emotions may have been accomplished in a different physical design in Lin’s memorial, but they share the fact that they were driven into the observer by use of invocative and creative design. Such is shown the importance of properly creating a memorial that will bring feelings to the observer. Organizations must heavily consider the importance of making the memorial a symbol to be remembered, and therefore properly