"His fetishisation of classicism, a historically recurring comfort blanket for despots of all stripes, is bleakly predictable."
― Catherine Slessor
#Architecture #ArchitecturalDesign #ArchitecturalCriticism #FetishizationOfClassicism #DictatorChic #Trump #WhiteHouse
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-architecture-critic-dictator-bling
What is originality in architecture? And what is faithful evolution?
In mid-August 2025, I found myself spending the summer in Miami. It was a well-thought-out choice. I stayed at the Fontainebleau, selecting a City View room on the 24th floor. I referred to it as my lighthouse a vantage point to observe the city’s architectural rhythm. #architecturalcriticism #ArchUp #Miami #normanfoster #uae #ZahaHadid
Who Is the City For?
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Blair Kamin, with photographs by Lee Bey. “No other American city [than Chicago] is quite so proficient at building landmarks and destroying them. There is, accordingly, no better place to […]
Bryan H. Rombough
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John Griogair Bell