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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I thought we were all supposed to live in 800 square-foot tiny home efficiencies.
If the country ever returns to sanity, fire their sorry asses and tear down their buildings.
I dunno, 800 sounds a little generous!
On Monday, President Joe Biden broke with a century of precedent by demanding the resignations of four members of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, including Chas Fagan, Steven Spandle, Perry Guillot, and Commission Chairman Justin Shubow. His reason? He doesn’t like the classic aesthetic.
“The counsel’s office,” Bloomberg reports, “advised that President Joe Biden has the authority to remove the commissioners, whose staunch support for classical architecture does not align with his values.”
Bureaucrats want monuments to themselves to remind we little people who is really in charge.
Nice however with the congress we have now the Adam’s family house or Munster’s house is more fitting.
LOL!
Abandoned in the woods of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., there are pieces of U.S. Capitol history that have been there since the 1950s.History of the U S Capitol lives in the middle of the woods | May 16, 2018 | The National Desk
Standing alone in the middle of a field at the US National Arboretum are 22 Corinthian columns that we once part of the east portico of the US Capitol building. They don't serve any purpose now, except to preserve that part of American history.The Capital Columns | April 25, 2016 | RealUnitedStatesVlog
Rock Creek Park Old Capitol Ruins | July 30, 2018 | Jeremy Lavine
It’s fitting
“Socialist Realism” is the emerging architecture style. Heavy, ponderous, and uninteresting.
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