Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Doesn't know how things work
The new urbanist types are happy with Trump's "order" that pretends to suggest non-modernist architecture for federal buildings.
Dalrymple gets carried away:
The order will give renewed courage to patrons of architecture, who for a long time have been cowed by the architects’ mastery of high-sounding verbiage and gobbledygook to promote their inhuman work, so much of which these days looks like a snapshot taken of a huge shack in mid-collapse during an earthquake. Patrons, like the courtiers of the Emperor with no clothes, have hitherto been afraid to confront architects for fear of appearing ignorant and unsophisticated, but will no longer have to accept the dictation of architects. Examples will show that things can be done differently, that patrons do not have to accept what Thom Mayne, the architect responsible for some of the worst of recent buildings, called “demanding art-for-art’s-sake architecture that only other architects can appreciate.”Shack in mid-collapse is a BEAUTIFUL AND PRECISE description of modern design. Unfortunately Dalrymple doesn't understand the sole purpose of Trump. The people who write "orders" to be signed by Trump do understand their purpose. Everything Trump "does" is explicitly and cleverly designed to cause no actions by bureaucrats. The bureaucrats knew from the start that they could simply continue doing what they were doing under Obama. The only consequence of a Trump "order" is to shift the blame for bad results to "altright white neoNazis" who can then be rounded up and EXTERMINATED. Now that classical architecture is officially associated with the Trump brand, any patron who asks an architect for a non-modern building can be instantly shipped to the ovens. THIS IS NOT AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE. THERE ARE NO UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
Labels: malign misattribution
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