Struggling with terror: the Pentagon memorial

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgement An earlier version of this essay was submitted as partial completion of requirements for a Penn Design theory class under John Dixon Hunt. Grateful thanks for his helpful suggestions.University of Pennsylvania Notes 1. David Sokol, ‘Pentagon Memorial Winner to be Named Soon’, Architectural Record, 191/2, February 2003, p. 54. 2. Tim McKeough, News briefs, Architectural Record, 196/10, October 2008, p. 48. 3. C. J. Hughes, ‘Victims of Terrorist Attacks Memorialized’, Architectural Record, 195/7, July 2007, p. 34. 4. Witold Rybczynski, ‘The Pentagon Memorial: It tells us more than we need to know—and, at the same time, not enough’, Slate, 24 September 2008, http://www.slate.com/id/2200596, accessed 23 February 2009. 5. William J. Thompson, ‘Land Matters’ editorial, Landscape Architecture, 97/10, October 2007, p. 23. 6. Hughes, p. 34. 7. William Hubbard, ‘A Meaning for Monuments’, Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla (eds), The Public Face of Architecture (New York: Free Press, 1987), pp. 124–141, here p. 131. 8. Kieran Long, ‘The Monument in the Age of Political Correctness’, Critic at Large, Landscape Architecture, 98/2, February 2008, pp. 138–140, here p. 140. 9. Long, p. 140. 10. Long, p. 138. 11. Jacky Bowring, ‘“To Make the Stone[s] Stony”: Defamiliarization and Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones’, Michel Conan (ed.), Contemporary Garden Aesthetics: Creations and Interpretations (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2007), pp. 181–197, here p. 186. 12. Hubbard, p. 136. 13. Ian Thompson, ‘What use is the genius loci?’ Sarah Menin (ed.), Constructing Place: Mind and Matter (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 66–76, here p. 75. 14. Bradford McKee, ‘Two New Memorials in the Capital: One Grand, the Other Minimalist’, Architecture, 92/4, April 2003, p. 17. 15. Benjamin Forgey, ‘The Pentagon Memorial Story’, Landscape Architecture, 99/1, January 2009, pp. 78–87, here p. 83. 16. Forgey, p. 83. 17. Kevin Lerner, ‘Memorial Architects Say Work is Moving Quickly’, Architectural Record, 194/9, September 2006, p. 32. 18. Forgey, p. 84. 19. Forgey p. 82. 20. Alan G. Brake, ‘Pentagon Memorial Moves Ahead’, Architecture, 91/10, October 2002, p. 16. 21. Ian Thompson, pp. 70–71. 22. Ian Thompson, p. 71. 23. Lerner, p. 32. 24. Forgey, p. 86. 25. Forgey, p. 85. 26. McKee, p. 17. 27. Peter Panepento and Rebecca Gardyn, ‘Paying Tribute’, Chronicle of Philanthropy, 18/22, 31 August 2006, p. 7. 28. Lerner, p. 32. 29. Panepento and Gardyn, p. 7. 30. Forgey, p. 86. 31. Forgey, p. 87. 32. McKeough, p. 48. 33. Forgey, p. 87. 34. Quoted in Forgey, p. 85. 35. Julia Czerniak, ‘Legibility and Resilience’, Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves (eds), Large Parks (New York: Princeton Architectural Press in association with Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2007), pp. 215–251. 36. Forgey, p. 85. 37. Forgey, p. 86. 38. Bowring, p. 183. 39. Long, p. 138. 40. Rybczynski, http://www.slate.com/id/2200596. 41. Forgey, p. 87. 42. Jeffrey T. Smith, Letter to the Editor, Landscape Architecture, 99/3, March 2009, pp. 15–16. 43. James Urban, Letter to the Editor, Landscape Architecture, 99/3, March 2009, p. 16. 44. Site visits by the author, February 2009. 45. Site visit by the author, April 2009. 46. Rybczynski, http://www.slate.com/id/2200596. 47. Forgey, p. 86. 48. Forgey, p. 87. 49. Rybczynski http://www.slate.com/id/2200596. 50. Hubbard, p. 128. 51. Rybczynski, http://www.slate.com/id/2200596. 52. Christopher Okigbo, Path of Thunder: Poems Prophesying War, in Labyrinths (London: Heinemann, 1971), pp. 61–72, here p. 70. 53. Forgey, p. 80.