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Trump is right about beautiful buildings


Trump is right about beautiful buildings
Modern architects have forgotten that public spaces should uplift and inspire the human spirit
22 December 2020 • 6:00pm
Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Palladio, Christopher Wren, John Soane, Robert Adam … Donald Trump? In the pantheon of architectural greats, the Donald is a surprise late 2020 entry. On Monday, President Trump, thinking of his legacy perhaps, issued an executive order with the title “On Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture”. 
One wonders, looking at Trump Tower, a vast Darth Vader helmet on Fifth Avenue, what the aesthetic the Commander in Chief has in mind? Glass? Steel? Light-stealing skyscrapers and bully-boy lobbies? Not this time. It isn’t to the greed-is-good and bigly-is-better look of Eighties Manhattan that Trump has turned, but to the marbled harmony of ancient Greece and republican Rome. ....

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