The best surviving example is Goofy Golf, which has a blend of ancient monuments, space-age icons and a couple of monsters.
Over the years, I frequently found this in conversations with people around monument spaces and even, surprisingly, in discussions with cohorts of young black students in the Cultural and Heritage Tourism program at my university.
That is in the third studio, home to a collection of the models for all past projects, whether or not they were realised: buildings, monuments and spaces invented by the artist in the course of his career.
The locations include a green labyrinth created by the Battery Conservancy, an underground chamber at the Governors Island National Monument, and spaces in landmark skyscrapers that are normally inaccessible to the public.
Central Javanese stone architecture did not use structural pillars, nor did its major stone monuments conceptualize hollow space in the way Khmer architecture did.
Almost daily, Moscow academics and journalists lecture on topics ranging from the history of civil disobedience to the uses of monuments in urban space; I recently delivered a lecture on the meaning of journalistic objectivity.
Yet its museums, monuments and public spaces are continually filled.
These translations include massive sculptures and monuments for public spaces, as well as smaller pieces for museums and private homes by artists like Audrey Flack, the late Frederick Hart and Robert Berks.
"I don't want to be like Henry Moore," he said, "just making big monuments for public spaces, like the one beside the Met on the piazza over there.
At the same time, several state and local governments have decided to remove Confederate flags and monuments from public spaces in the South.
A prime example is the erection of new monuments in public spaces, like the diminutive obelisk in Tahrir Square unveiled in November to honor activists killed during the 2011 uprising, which has since been defaced many times.
