Monuments molt: they change skin, change image, and change meaning. As living heritage, they renew their renders and their walls, transform their outer appearance, and modify their symbolic content; and as vulnerable heritage, they experience decaden
Louis Kahn can be considered one of the few architects of the 20th century to have been able to address with dignity the problem of the monument, and perhaps the most enlightening example of this is the Capitol in Dhaka. William Curtis analyzes it in
A menudo, cuando hablamos de arquitectura vieja, pretendemos encontrar en la arquitectura una muy precisa circunstancia de los seres vivos —la vejez— otorgando al tiempo la categoría clasificatoria y catalogando así la arquitectura según los tiempos
