Trump Administration Drafts an Executive Order Mandating Neoclassical Architecture

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Titled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” the draft criticizes brutalism, deconstructivism, and anything characterized as “modern.”

In 1962, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan outlined the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, which prioritized contextual, human-centered buildings and argued that "an official style must be avoided." These directives have informed policy at the U.S. General Services Administration for over 50 years—however that could soon change.

According to a widely circulated report, an executive order drafted by President Trump’s White House—titled Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again—would reverse that standard. The reported document states that "the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style" for any new or upgraded federal buildings nationwide.

https://www.dwell.com/article/making-federal-buildings-beautiful-again-president-trump-executive-order-fffb1df2

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1. From the guy who thinks gold toilets are classy...

Cripes.

[RockRaven]

2. This is detrimental to the effort to make new buildings energy efficient.

That is probably as big of a motivating factor for Dolt45 as aesthetics. He tries to destroy everything on purpose.

[icymist]

3. Bet he'd like something like this:

[Xipe Totec]

4. Trump's persona screams Brutalist architecture nt

[spanone]

5. With his name carved into the stone

of course

[Newest Reality]

6. Gee, that sounds familiar!

Hmmm. Where have I heard that before? Could it be...?

Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by the Third Reich from 1933 until its fall in 1945. It is characterized by three forms: a stripped neoclassicism (typified by the designs of Albert Speer); a vernacular style that drew inspiration from traditional rural architecture, especially alpine; and a utilitarian style followed for major infrastructure projects and industrial or military complexes. Nazi ideology took a pluralist attitude to architecture; however, Adolf Hitler himself believed that form follows function and wrote against "stupid imitations of the past".[1]

While similar to Classicism, the official Nazi style is distinguished by the impression it leaves on viewers. Architectural style was used by the Nazis to deliver and enforce their ideology. Formal elements like flat roofs, horizontal extension, uniformity, and the lack of decor created "an impression of simplicity, uniformity, monumentality, solidity and eternity," which is how the Nazi Party wanted to appear.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_architectured

Time to build the Trump Empire! Heil! Always emulate the best...tyrants!

[tinrobot]

9. Yep, straight from the playbook of Albert Speer.

[Newest Reality]

11. And...

We are not surprised are we?

Patterns.

[Captain Zero]

12. flat roofs always leak.

guaranteed.

[not_the_one]

14. and Tin Roofs Rust!

[Newest Reality]

7. I would like to submit...

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I would like to submit an architectural design for the Trump Monument to commemorate what he has done for our country:

[struggle4progress]

8. "Why can't our national buildings look more like the Tannenberg Memorial?"

[fierywoman]

10. And then there are those incredibly ugly buildings in Rome from the Fascist era.

[lunatica]

13. All federal buildings will henceforth be Trump towers.

with Trump’s name prominently displayed.

They plan to display the name Trump on the border wall but it keeps blowing over in the wind.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Stalinist gothic?

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