Though I don’t know that the later was an inspired criticism of the former, it is nonetheless interesting, especially in much more fickle times when opinion and sentiment are hoisted kept circulating with a steady volley, that these constructs are less than a generation apart. Neither illustrates an extinguisher or a fire-brand, neces-sarily, but does reflect the revolutionary movement of the times, to which not all nations succumbed to in the same way. I wonder what figurative architecture, sturdy and steadied like an arch or a flying-buttress and sense of surface tension allowed some to resist transformation, before or behind the curb depending on where one stands, while many other regimes were turned or reformed. It’s as if, like a keystone or some other hack of gravity like centrifugal force, there is a strange kind of inertia from civic pyramids where internal and external pressures are in equilibrium, up to a point, and resist change. 
