From the Whitehouse:
Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
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[]”
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In the 1950s, the Federal Government largely replaced traditional designs for new construction with modernist ones. This practice became official policy after the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space proposed what became known as the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture (Guiding Principles) in 1962. The Guiding Principles implicitly discouraged classical and other traditional designs known for their beauty, declaring instead that the Government should use “contemporary” designs.
The Federal architecture that ensued, overseen by the General Services Administration (GSA), was often unpopular with Americans. The new buildings ranged from the undistinguished to designs even GSA now admits many in the public found unappealing. In Washington, D.C., new Federal buildings visibly clashed with the existing classical architecture. Some of these structures, such as the Hubert H. Humphrey Department of Health and Human Services Building and the Robert C. Weaver Department of Housing and Urban Development Building, were controversial, attracting widespread criticism for their Brutalist designs.
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It is time to update the policies guiding Federal architecture to address these problems and ensure that architects designing Federal buildings serve their clients, the American people. New Federal building designs should, like America’s beloved landmark buildings, uplift and beautify public spaces, inspire the human spirit, ennoble the United States, command respect from the general public, and, as appropriate, respect the architectural heritage of a region. They should also be visibly identifiable as civic buildings and should be selected with input from the local community.
Classical and other traditional architecture, as practiced both historically and by today’s architects, have proven their ability to meet these design criteria and to more than satisfy today’s functional, technical, and sustainable needs. Their use should be encouraged instead of discouraged.
Those were just sections. Read the whole thing, it’s beautiful. A true condemnation of ugly Federal buildings.
I’ve posted these videos before but I’ll do it again because of their relevance.
All of this is absolutely true.
Think of this video that’s gone viral.
WTF am I watching https://t.co/hEk7ko3sdT
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) December 20, 2020
Ugliness has become the medium for people who cannot create beauty. They know deep inside they cannot contribute beauty to the world so they aggressively attack beauty and promote ugliness.
This girl doesnt want to put in the effort be traditionally beautiful so she goes out of her way to make herself ugly and yells at you and insults you if you reject her ugliness. She is a modern art masterpiece. She is the personification of Brutalism.
This is why the Left attacks Beethoven and classical music as racist.
This is so beautiful it brings a tear to your eye.
But this ugly abomination (sorry):
Is a important “feminist anthem.”
We need more public beauty. We need to exalt beauty again.
This is where I will side with Antifa.
I’d encourage them to burn down all the concrete slab Brutalist buildings so they can be replaced with classical architecture.
That shouldn’t be too hard.
Brutalism was made popular by a rich, white, man and Nazi sympathizer.
Maybe of we can get them to set fire to a few modern art galleries as well, we’ll really be onto doing some good.
While we’re at it, when we rebuild these federal buildings, let’s move them out of DC. Move Agriculture to Kansas City, Labor to Detroit, HUD to Atlanta, Interior to Utah, etc. Get them out of the close-to-power incestuous relationships of Washington. Let Washington keep the primary big 4 – Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice. Everything else should move out, particularly to places relevant to their mission. That includes the alphabet soup of agencies, as well.
One way to drain the swamp is to move out of it.
While we’re at it, we could just abolish much of that federal bureaucracy, but we all know that’s not going to happen.
BATFE to Mentone, TX…
If there’s ever a Dept of Mental Health, please locate it in CA. ASAP, please. Really, we need that.
“Ugliness has become the medium for people who cannot create beauty. They know deep inside they cannot contribute beauty to the world so they aggressively attack beauty and promote ugliness.”
That is exactly what children do. If they cannot master something, they destroy it. Watch a child try to do something way above their age level. How long before they call it stupid, then throw it across the room. No different here. Toddler mindset. I cannot be supermodel beautiful, so I will destroy my looks and claim it is beauty. Then I will use every weapon available to me in the “politically correct” arsenal to destroy you if you do not agree.