An Academic Approach for the Rail Corridor: Ideas for a National Mall in Singapore

2015 ◽  
Vol 01 (11) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Feng Yuanqiu ◽  
Jörg Rekittke
Keyword(s):  
National Mall

Keeping the Vision Alive: The Role of Networks in National Memorial Building A Case Study of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial and the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Amy Probsdorfer Kelley ◽  
John C. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Perceived Popularity ◽  
National Mall ◽  
Compare And Contrast

The process to win approval to build a national memorial on the National Mall inWashington, DC is both long and complex. Many memorials are proposed, but few are chosen to inhabit the increasingly scarce space available on the Mall. Through the use of network analysis we compare and contrast two memorial proposals, with an eye toward understanding why one proposal was successful while the other seems to have failed. We conclude that the success of a specific memorial has less to do with the perceived popularity of the person or event to be memorialized, and more to do with how the sponsors use the network of people and resources available to advocate for a given proposal.

scholarly journals Decolonising the museum: the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC

Antiquity ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (304) ◽  
pp. 424-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Smith
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Mall ◽  
New Facility

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), the Smithsonian Institution’s new facility on the National Mall in Washington DC, challenges the very notion of what constitutes a museum. Probably the most theoretically informed museum in North America, this is no shrine to the past: it is a museum that claims both past and present to shape a decolonised future for Indigenous populations.

Go Away Little Girl: Gender, Race, and Controversy in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Prospects ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 595-617
Author(s):  
Kim S. Theriault
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Obtuse Angle ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
White House ◽  
Vietnam Veterans Memorial ◽  
National Mall ◽  
The Right

It's remarkably simple, really.Constructed in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, generally referred to as the “Wall,” consists of two black granite wings, each almost 250 feet long, which meet at an obtuse angle that is submerged into the landscape of the National Mall, a green space between the Lincoln and Washington Memorials and some distance behind White House, in Washington, D.C. The form of the Wall, designed by Maya Ying Lin, is minimalist in nature, not only because it includes the right angles, hard edges, shiny surface, and repeated increments of Minimalism, but because even though it is a war memorial, unlike most, its only ornament and representation is the seemingly endless list of 58,226 names of American service men and women killed in Vietnam.

Creating a Model for the National Mall: The Design of the National Museum of Natural History

2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia R. Field ◽  
Jeffrey T. Tilman
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
National Museum ◽  
National Mall ◽  
Final Composition ◽  
Mcmillan Plan

The story of the design of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History belies its quietly restrained appearance. The building's architects, Hornblower & Marshall, were not responsible for the prominent Mall façade of the museum and its low Roman dome; rather, these were a secret effort of Charles Follen McKim, who, in turn, asked Daniel II. Burnham to add his ideas to the final composition. This history is entwined with McKim and Burnham's work on the Senate Park Commission (McMillan) plan of 1902. For them, the museum represented the model for all the buildings to be erected on the new National Mall. Although functional needs were an important part of the dialogue, Hornblower & Marshall and McKim and Burnham were most concerned with identifying the appropriate character for the new structure, the former admiring modern French style, the latter advocating a Roman Revival aesthetic. The finished building, the work of all these hands, demonstrates that many practicing architects at the turn of the century valued compromise and collaboration as least as much as they did creativity and independence.

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