I've heard that "brutalism" is making a comeback.
Posted on 05/30/2021 7:11:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Classical architecture is not a partisan issue.
President Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party, was an enthusiastic champion of the Greek Revivalism thankfully still visible in both the capital and his Monticello home. When he designed the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, he took great care in the landscaping and architecture, knowing their likely effects on generations of young minds.
Fifty years later, President Abraham Lincoln insisted that construction of the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol continue despite the bloody and costly war taking place sometimes just 50 miles from the seat of government. Public beauty in civic buildings, he believed, was crucial to the future of the Union.
Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt drew inspiration from the great Republican of the Civil War, championing the classical and moving ahead with Washington construction as he sought to prepare the country for the world war he saw descending on our fragile peace.
Democrat Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan played an interesting role in Washington’s architectural history, both helping to craft the 1962 General Guidelines that undid more than 50 years of ordered-classical government buildings, then later criticizing the modernism that took its place.
“Twentieth Century America,” he lamented in 1970, “has seen a steady, persistent decline in the visual and emotional power of its public buildings, and this has been accompanied by a not less persistent decline in the authority of its public order.”
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22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
So why not go the extra mile and screw up entire buildings, right, Xiden?
PING!
I've heard that "brutalism" is making a comeback.
It is written: “Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt drew inspiration from the great Republican of the Civil War, championing the classical and moving ahead with Washington construction...” Not so fast. Under his tenure there was the institution of the “Egyptian Revival” a movement noted for its ugly buildings and only surpassed by the cracker boxes begun under Lyndon Johnson. (An example, the hideous FBI building begun in 1967.)
Well, that one out-uglied the Weaver Building (HUD) in DC!
Lets make Russia Great Again!!! Lets copy the great Soviet Architecture, and at the same time bow down to Putin and give him all of our nukes.
We will be looking towards 1970’s East Berlin for inspiration.
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Democrat scum hate Greek democracy and all western culture. All symbols of it must be eradicated.
Heaven forbid that brutalist architecture returns to public buildings. Brutalism combines the worst features of Egyptian, Etruscan, earlyAmerican railroad station and Stalinist architectural designs.
Well, if you’re going to have Socialism, the Socialist Realism goes with it.
With the same “quality” construction.
I remember how weird it was when I had to visit the new, local courthouse in the mid-1990s - it looked like a condominium at the beach, not a building that would inspire any reverence or respect for Law at all...
That party did not exist then.
Joe Biden was, is, and ever will be a clown. He will beclown himself, his office, and anything he touches. Before long this country could end up looking like Soviet-era Russia.
THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963:
#22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
How soon before they start calling Classical Architecture “degenerate art”?
What Joe really dislikes are Trump-appointed board members standing in the way of his patronage plans.
Joe’s Delaware houses:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/real-estate/a-look-at-four-of-joe-bidens-houses-before-the-white-house
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