Sentence examples for rigid monuments from inspiring English sources

As part of Archigram, Cook started out by championing fluid, adaptable, colourful, free-form architecture that would use the latest technologies to free people's lives and would be the opposite of the rigid monuments of previous generations.

Both owe a debt to the great architect and architectural thinker Cedric Price, who fought against the idea that buildings should be rigid, po-faced monuments, but in divergent ways.

The end results were as rigid and unliberating as the monuments against which they were supposed to react.

Neither a chaotic free-for-all nor a patrician closed shop, a venture such as the dictionary challenges both the flash-in-the-pan narcissism of Celebrity Big Brother and the rigid hierarchies of rank, role and gender reflected in Victorian monuments.

There, in a heightened pursuit of raw expression, he began to focus upon the ancient monuments of medieval religion, crosses, and calvaries, incorporating their simple, rigid forms into his compositions, as seen in The Yellow Christ (1889).

battle monuments.

Some of his images, with their filigree shadows, rigid geometries and emphasis on Renaissance-style perspective, recall Joseph Stella's famous painting of the Brooklyn Bridge, turning the spans into sanctified monuments of American know-how.

Royal monuments stopped appearing.

Monuments were toppled.

They're monuments.

Both monuments stand today.