Rebuilding a culture of beauty
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 |
Robert Knight - Guest Columnist Knight
In order to achieve equality, everything had to be leveled and replaced with the gray, lifeless forms of a totalitarian society.
President Trump thinks we should stop paying for ugly government buildings.
On December 21, he announced the formation of a “President’s Council on Improving Federal Civic Architecture.” He wants more of the kind of buildings that tourists flock to see and fewer that resemble Soviet-style “brutalist” designs.
In 2007, my wife and I were in Warsaw, Poland for a World Congress of Families conference. During our cab ride from the airport, we saw miles and miles of ugly modernist architecture foisted on the Polish people by their communist masters.
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President Trump thinks we should stop paying for ugly government buildings.
On Dec. 21, he announced the formation of a President’s Council on Improving Federal Civic Architecture. He wants more of the kind of buildings that tourists flock to see and fewer that resemble Soviet-style “brutalist” designs.
In 2007, my wife and I were in Warsaw, Poland, for a World Congress of Families conference. During our cab ride from the airport, we saw miles and miles of ugly modernist architecture foisted on the Polish people by their communist masters.