Kahn, ÒMonumentality,Ó in Paul Zucker, New Architecture and
City Planning (1944)
ÒNo
architect can rebuild a cathedral of another epoch, embodying the desires,
the aspirations, the love and hate of the people whose heritage it
became. Therefore the images we
have before us of monumental structures of the past cannot live again with the same
intensity and meaning.
Their faithful duplication is unreconcilable, but we dare not discard the
lessons these buildings teach, for they have the common characteristics
of greatness upon which the buildings of our future must, in
one sense or another, rely.Ó