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Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture; December 21, 2020
It's Albert Speer or nothing.
EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
Issued on: December 21, 2020
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. Societies have long recognized the importance of beautiful public architecture. Ancient Greek and Roman public buildings were designed to be sturdy and useful, and also to beautify public spaces and inspire civic pride. Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, public architecture continued to serve these purposes. The 1309 constitution of the City of Siena required that [w]hoever rules the City must have the beauty of the City as his foremost preoccupation . . . because it must provide pride, honor, wealth, and growth to the Sienese citizens, as well as pleasure and happiness to visitors from abroad. Three centuries later, the great British Architect Sir Christopher Wren declared that public buildings [are] the ornament of a country. [Architecture] establishes a Nation, draws people and commerce, makes the people love their native country . . . Architecture aims at eternity[]
Notable Founding Fathers agreed with these assessments and attached great importance to Federal civic architecture. They wanted Americas public buildings to inspire the American people and encourage civic virtue. President George Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson consciously modeled the most important buildings in Washington, D.C., on the classical architecture of ancient Athens and Rome. They sought to use classical architecture to visually connect our contemporary Republic with the antecedents of democracy in classical antiquity, reminding citizens not only of their rights but also their responsibilities in maintaining and perpetuating its institutions.
Washington and Jefferson personally oversaw the competitions to design the Capitol Building and the White House. Under the direction and following the vision of these two founders, Pierre Charles LEnfant designed the Nations capital as a classical city. The promise of his design for the city was fulfilled by the 1902 McMillan Plan, which created the National Mall and the Monumental Core as we know them.
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DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 18, 2020.
Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
Issued on: December 21, 2020
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. Societies have long recognized the importance of beautiful public architecture. Ancient Greek and Roman public buildings were designed to be sturdy and useful, and also to beautify public spaces and inspire civic pride. Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, public architecture continued to serve these purposes. The 1309 constitution of the City of Siena required that [w]hoever rules the City must have the beauty of the City as his foremost preoccupation . . . because it must provide pride, honor, wealth, and growth to the Sienese citizens, as well as pleasure and happiness to visitors from abroad. Three centuries later, the great British Architect Sir Christopher Wren declared that public buildings [are] the ornament of a country. [Architecture] establishes a Nation, draws people and commerce, makes the people love their native country . . . Architecture aims at eternity[]
Notable Founding Fathers agreed with these assessments and attached great importance to Federal civic architecture. They wanted Americas public buildings to inspire the American people and encourage civic virtue. President George Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson consciously modeled the most important buildings in Washington, D.C., on the classical architecture of ancient Athens and Rome. They sought to use classical architecture to visually connect our contemporary Republic with the antecedents of democracy in classical antiquity, reminding citizens not only of their rights but also their responsibilities in maintaining and perpetuating its institutions.
Washington and Jefferson personally oversaw the competitions to design the Capitol Building and the White House. Under the direction and following the vision of these two founders, Pierre Charles LEnfant designed the Nations capital as a classical city. The promise of his design for the city was fulfilled by the 1902 McMillan Plan, which created the National Mall and the Monumental Core as we know them.
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DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 18, 2020.
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Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture; December 21, 2020 (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2020
OP
Botany
(70,442 posts)1. Hitler was looking at models of his "New Berlin" w/Speer as the Soviet Army was closing ....
.... in on his bunker. Trump has under 1 month to go in office and he is signing papers about
"future architecture" on government buildings? The fucker is nutz!
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)2. Where is Albert Speer when you need him?
SCantiGOP
(13,862 posts)4. One of Speer's duties
was that every new Nazi building that was approved had to have an analysis and drawings of what it would look like as a ruin in 1,000 years.
One of Hitlers promises was that the Third Reich would last at least a thousand years.
He only missed it by 989 years.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)3. Yeah, Dictator Chic
LessAspin
(1,151 posts)5. Noel Casler FTW
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Trumps executive order banning modern designs for all federal buildings is not about his love of french neoclassicism is much as its a parting gift to his friends in the concrete industry if you know what mean. I call this architectural style: bada-bing arts.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Trumps buildings and his casinos attracted underworld figures like Fat Tony Salerno, the Fedora-wearing, cigar-chomping boss of the Genovese crime family. Salerno, whos portrayed in the film by Domenick Lombardozzi, supplied the fast-drying concrete that built Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Salerno also controlled the local concrete workers union, and when a strike shut down construction in Manhattan in 1982, the one of the few buildings that wasnt affected was Trump Tower.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-real-life-mob-families-of-the-irishman-donald-trump-knew-them-922836/
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212758327
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-real-life-mob-families-of-the-irishman-donald-trump-knew-them-922836/
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212758327
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pfitz59
(10,298 posts)6. Trump is noted for his sense of style