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Federal design mandates should end, says AIA
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Biden s unprecedented purge of federal advisory boards accelerates as he moves to ensure new federal buildings will be ugly modernist monstrosities
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Why the Democrats Need an Architectural Vision to Counter the Right’s
Republicans are already advancing a distinct if ugly and tasteless aesthetic. Biden should follow in FDR’s footsteps and create a Public Works Administration for the twenty-first century.
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In 1936, these New Deal architects and draftsmen designed homes for workers who were forced to relocate during the Great Depression.
For years, Donald Trump groused about the ugly architecture in Washington. And then, in December, in the waning days of his presidency, he handed down the “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture” executive order, decreeing that all new federal construction adhere to a traditional, classicist aesthetic. If Trump had had his way, the FBI would have moved from its appropriately treacherous and looming brutalist building into a neo-Palladian nightmare with monumental columns and a gold interior spray-painted to look like Versailles.
Even by the standards of today’s right-wing politics, it was a doozy.
A leaked draft of the America First Caucus’s policy platform hit the internet on April 19. The group, an offshoot within the Republican Party reportedly involving QAnon-friendly representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, among others, called for defending the United States’s “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” It also advocated for “America First Education,” for an investigation into “mass voter fraud perpetrated during the 2020 election,” for protecting Bitcoin as an investment and it even had a few things to say about aesthetics.
Specifically, the American First Caucus’s section on “Infrastructure” led with this passage (clearly written by someone who really likes the word “befits”):