The Way of All Flesh: Reflections on the entropy at work on the buildings of Roelof Uytenbogaardt
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2017
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem
to cause us to forget the future. Instead of being made of natural materials, such as marble,
granite: plastic, chrome, and electric light. They are not built for the ages, but rather against the
ages. They are involved in a systematic reduction of time down to fractions of seconds, rather
than in representing the long spaces of centuries. Both past and future are placed into an objective
present. This kind of time has little or no space; it is stationary and without movement, it
is going nowhere, it is anti-Newtonian, as well as being instant, and is against the wheels of the
time-clock.
- Robert Smithson, Entropy and the New Monuments (1966)
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Kevin, F. 2017. The Way of All Flesh: Reflections on the entropy at work on the buildings of Roelof Uytenbogaardt.Great Britain:Cambridge Architectural Press. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36890.