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One of the lesser-noted things Trump did as President that always struck me as strange was, in December 2020, declare Classical Greco-Roman architecture to be the official architectural style of the US government and condemn modernist or brutalist buildings in DC
This was a thing in Nazi architecture. The idea was that the buildings would continue to convey the aesthetic value of Reich for thousands of years. Speer: Hitler liked to say that the purpose of his building was to transmit his time and its spirit to posterity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_va...
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I teach that executive order in art history survey classes alongside neoclassicism.