Fiske Kimball’s essay on the design of war memorials, commissioned by the Architectural League, as published in The New York Times Magazine, November 12, 1944

“As the war draws to a close, a host of war memorial proposals…begins to rise. Many of us here…know, as was indeed a foregone conclusion, from previous wars, that most of them will be, from the point of view of design, simply not worthy of being built. With that prospect before us, many responsible individuals and societies are bestirring themselves. They wish to see to it that war memorials…be as designs as excellent as the mind can conceive or the hand fashion….The Architectural League, being primarily concerned not with any one…field but with the spirit and practice of collaboration between them, deems itself not too forward to to invite spokesmen from [all] fields to meet under our roof for a frank and serious exchange of views.” Opening remarks by Hugh Ferriss of symposium on war memorials, November 16, 1944