ABSTRACT
In architecture, monumentality is most often confused with substance. Any object, sufficiently enlarged in size, becomes architecture. Claes Oldenburg, sensing that our symbols today lie in the realm of the man-made, has shown that any common object may be elevated to monument simply by puffing up its scale. Unfortunately, our leading architects, whose ego and belief in bigness may outweigh their common sense, have largely succumbed to this false dream.
