Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C. by Michael Curtis

Author:Michael Curtis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2018-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

The Atlantic baldacchino; Friedrich St. Florian, architect; Ray Kaskey, sculptor, 2004. Marco Rubino.

CRITICISM

Many were the critics of the memorial: the preservationists, who liked things just as they were; the civil libertarians, who opposed inscriptions implying Judeo-Christian values; and the academic modernists, who in bow ties, round glasses, and sharp pencils caricatured the classicalish design as “Mussolini fascism,” “freezing and embalming” and “copying period styles,” as though modernism, ecoism, deconstructivism, constructivism, expressionism, internationalism, brutalism, technoism, post-modernism, et cetera are not old-fashioned period styles. The more accurate criticism concerns the inarticulate use of classical, architectural language in the columns, distributed weight in the balance of parts and proportion in detail, all of which are mastered by apprentices in classics, all of which are fumbled by accomplished progressives. Yet here, in the World War II Memorial, the style, though imperfect, is sympathetic to its surrounding, considerate of its landscape, stately, properly respectful of its occasion and suitable to the honor of those Americans who sacrificed themselves, their lives, for the freedom of the world.

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