Paul Goldberger on classical architecture in the age of Trump – Archinect
The proposed arch was nominally designed by Nicolas Charbonneau of Harrison Design, but as with almost all of the projects the president has proposed, Trump himself is effectively client and architect, since the project exists to fulfill no need other than his increasingly imperial desires. — AIR MAIL
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, writing for AIR MAIL, on the triumph and uneasiness of classical-architecture advocates with Trump as Client in Chief.
"It all puts the National Civic Art Society in a somewhat awkward position," Goldberger writes, "It seemed at first like the society had found in Trump its ultimate patron, a president whose claim that he would give traditional architecture more prominence would turn this small, little-known nonprofit group into the administration’s de facto architectural adviser. But Trump’s idea of classicism is not dignity and order but over-the-top gaudiness and excess—not Jeffersonian decorum but super-size Las Vegas vulgarity. Trump does not join movements; he hijacks them and remakes them in his own image."
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