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President Donald Trump signed an executive order that designates classical architecture as the preferred style of building in Washington, D.C. He says the goal is to make federal buildings “beautiful” and inspire the American people.
Not surprisingly, architects who designed some of Washington’s monstrosities are in a snit.
Trump declares classical architecture as D.C. s official style, new executive order requires federal buildings to be beautiful , nope this is not a joke tweet. https://t.co/bFzIPZ2CDp
So many of the racists that I follow are really into neoclassical architecture.
Remember the tag “degenerate art”? A good book related to this is Albert Speer’s excellent autobiography. He acknowledges the general bad taste around him and the push for neoclassical “big” architecture. Sort of a mea culpa of somebody who could have been a fine individual.