Writing of Manhattan at the end of the 20th century, the architect Rem Koolhaas described a new kind of monument, one “available for meaning as a billboard is for advertisement:”
It is a solipsism celebrating only the fact of its disproportionate existence, the shamelessness of its own process of creation. This monument of the twentieth century is the ‘Automonument,’ and its purest manifestation…
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