Like Hitler, Trump attacks modern architecture

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President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that requires federal buildings in Washington to maintain a classical style of Greco-Roman architecture associated with the marble columns and austere hallways of the Supreme Court and U.S. Capitol.

The new guidelines, which the White House has framed as “making federal architecture beautiful again,” also discourage federal construction projects nationwide from choosing modernist styles like Brutalism.

 
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President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that requires federal buildings in Washington to maintain a classical style of Greco-Roman architecture associated with the marble columns and austere hallways of the Supreme Court and U.S. Capitol.

The new guidelines, which the White House has framed as “making federal architecture beautiful again,” also discourage federal construction projects nationwide from choosing modernist styles like Brutalism.

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Our Fuhrer is totally out of his mind.
 
Hitler, an architectural mind himself, knew that only the powerful can use architecture as an instrument of power. Once he confessed before his own war: “If Germany hadn’t lost the War, I would have become a great architect—something like Michelangelo, instead of a politician.”

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