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US architecture - in fact the more corporate end of modernist architecture in general - has very literal and obvious links to fascism. https://architecturehere
by TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
US architecture - in fact the more corporate end of modernist architecture in general - has very literal and obvious links to fascism.
https://architecturehereandthere.com/2016/04/21/fascism-modernism-philip-johnson-mies-corbusier/ https://architecturehereandthere.com/2016/04/21/fascism-mode...
The monumentalism of city centres in the US - especially DC - is not an accident.
This is obvious when you consider what non-fascist architecture would look like: human scale, communitarian, diverse, accessible, quirky and humorous, colourful, ecologically integrated.
Generally the opposite of massive concrete statement buildings and monuments which intimidate, bully, and exclude.