{"id":3115,"date":"2023-06-16T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:16:33","slug":"classical-architecture-in-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/06\/16\/classical-architecture-in-the-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical Architecture in the Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My previous piece for\u00a0<em>The American Conservative<\/em>\u00a0concerned the mayhem postwar \u201curban renewal\u201d wrought\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/making-the-wharf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in Washington, D.C.\u2019s southwest quadrant<\/a>. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C. Weaver Department of Housing and Urban Development building designed by onetime Bauhaus luminary Marcel Breuer. Commissioned by Uncle Sam\u2019s real estate developer and landlord, the General Services Administration (GSA), and completed in 1968, it is a Brutalist pile entailing the diagrammatic fusion of curved masses that was a specialty of Breuer\u2019s. He had previously employed the technique at UNESCO\u2019s Paris headquarters and an IBM research facility in the south of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Catesby Leigh&nbsp;is a senior fellow of&nbsp;Common Sense Society.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/classical-architecture-in-the-capital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The American Conservative<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of bills in the Congress would return Uncle Sam\u2019s buildings to a classical design.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - 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