In 40 years, Brasilia, designed for 500,000 people, has acquired 1.8m.The city was planned as a fearless celebration of a new world: as Mr Costa, the chief Brazilian disciple of Le Corbusier, conceived it, a statement of how people should live, not how they do.
Conroy agrees with McFee that the phrase "dance is an ephemeral art" does apply to the difficulty of preserving dances, but she also thinks it should be conceived as a statement of a danceworld value; as a way of conveying "a communal attitude of tolerance for change with respect to choreography that has been previously performed" (2012, 160).
Originally conceived as a statement about humanity's ability to find new homes through relocation and immigration, the series took a more critical turn when the artist noticed an abundance of cheap chapels sprouting up across Japan.
Its provenance is fascinating; according to Verne Harris, Project Leader of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialogue, "Long Walk to Freedom" was conceived as the statement of a collective voice.
Once a seminal figure in the international avant-garde, Stockhausen all but reduced himself to a historical footnote in the decades before his death in 2007, through his increasingly esoteric output and with an ill-conceived statement ascribing aesthetic value to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.
We decided that it was heuristically more effective to ask questions rather than to consider statements, and to conceive these questions as a pragmatic aid to guide scholars and help them reflect on their own research.
The play was first conceived as a religious statement opposing Protestant orthodoxy rather than as a stage play, but the censorship that threatened to curtail Lessing's long drawn-out polemics against dogmatic Protestant theologians encouraged him to make it a powerful drama.
This statement was conceived by the delegates of the second international conference of Evidence-Based Health Care Teachers anDevelopersrs held in Sicily in September 2003 ("Signposting the future of EBHC", [ 12]).
This statement was conceived by the delegates of the 5th International Conference of Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) Teachers anDevelopersrs held in Sicily in October 2009 (http://www.ebhc.org) at its final plenary session.
Although the items collected in this volume are, technically, private letters, in reality some of them were clearly conceived as semi-public statements.
Law statements are straightforwardly conceived as inference rules, such that if "All As are Bs" is a law statement, then it permits the scientists to infer 'Ba' from 'Aa'.
