Architecture Twitter does not always get its chance to shine; the last time architecture had a viral moment was probably in 2017, when Max Krieger unleashed a delightfully unhinged tweet thread on the delightfully unhinged architecture of the Cheesecake Factory. But Architecture Twitter is once again a-boil this week with the news of Trump’s executive order specifying new federal buildings may only be constructed in one of six styles (Neoclassicism, Beaux-Arts, Federalism, Georgian, Greek Revival, or Art Deco), specifically calling out the style of Brutalism—popular in the 60s-70s and easily recognizable to anyone who has walked around the University of Washington or downtown Seattle—as unacceptable.
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