The Manhattan Skyline

“Each evening the skyscrapers of New York assume the anthropomorphic shapes of multiple gigantic Millet’s Angel uses….motionless, and ready to perform the sexual act and to devour one another……it is the sanguinary desire that illuminates them and makes all the central heating and the central poetry circulate within their ferruginous bone structure….” Salvador Dali in Delirious New York, 1978

The city which is the creation of the environment by human where there is no separation between civilized life and society, is understood here as architecture, the construction of the city over time. Architecture came into being along with the first traces of the city which is deeply rooted in the formation of the civilization and is permanent, universal , and necessary artifact which are formed by the aesthetic intention and the creation of better surrounding that differ from every other art and science.

The monument which is a primary element of urban artifact that has strong art intention in it, plays a major part in the city since it has high influence to its development. The development of the New York City is one of the best example where the skyscrapers become the monuments of the city owing to its beauty that also generate the city’s form as a whole by its type and typology and become the theater for human events not only where feelings, memory of the past and potential memory of the future are accommodated, but also where the events are constituted along with its urban dynamics of culture, politic, and economy that sometimes, in its development, need to sacrifice something such the phenomena of expropriation in order to pursuing the quality of the city as a gigantic man made to the perfection as it can be.