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Tag Archives: Eisenhower memorial
Trads must step up game
While channel hopping a couple weeks ago, just before Christmas, I landed on C-Span and discovered to my horror I was watching a live broadcast of the groundbreaking for Frank Gehry’s memorial to Frank Gehry – oops, I mean Dwight … Continue reading
Memorial news & views
George Weigel, the religious philosopher, replays the sad saga of the proposed memorial for Dwight Eisenhower in his essay “Ike Memorial No-Brainer,” from the National Review. Weigel urges Congress to dump Frank Gehry’s “Memorial To Myself” design that has already … Continue reading
Vote’s “style wars” tea leaves
It’s hard to say, to say the least, what, if anything, Donald Trump’s victory may mean for architecture. It is easier to image that a Hillary Clinton victory would have meant more of the same for how we build. Trump … Continue reading
No surrender to Gehry Ike
News that the Eisenhower family has been flipped and now supports the design of a proposed memorial to their patriarch by celebrity architect Frank Gehry is depressing, and maybe even predictable, but it’s too early for opponents of the monstrosity … Continue reading
Shubow to speak in Boston
Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society and a leading proponent of classical architecture, is also a leading opponent of modern architecture. He and his organization, along with the Eisenhower family, have led the fight against Frank Gehry’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Bulfinch Awards, Bulfinch Awards Gala, Bulfinch Memorial Lecture, classical architecture, Eisenhower memorial, Frank Gehry, Justin Shubow, Modern Architecture, National Civic Art Society, Thomas Jefferson
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Design for a WWI memorial
Not long ago I wrote of an open competition for a national monument for World War I to be built at Pershing Square. The square has honored Gen. John “Black Jack” Perhsing, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, for decades. … Continue reading
Updating Gehry’s Ike again
Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, has a detailed report out on the situation facing the proposed memorial for Dwight Eisenhower designed by Frank Gehry. “House Appropriators Call for ‘Reset’ on Eisenhower Memorial Plans” paints a picture of a … Continue reading
What monuments tell us
Recently, as museums to remember the stain of slavery in America are under construction in Washington and planned in Charleston, there has arisen the vital question of whether memorials should speak in a traditional language everyone can understand or a … Continue reading
Column: The ground game against modernism
Little noticed amid last month’s shutdown in Washington was Congress’s shutdown of funding for the Eisenhower Memorial Commission’s proposed modernist monument for the 34th president, designed by Frank Gehry and expected to cost $142 million, mostly in federal tax dollars. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, art, Bruce Cole, Bulfinch Awards, Christine Franck, classical architecture, classicism, David Brussat, design, Eisenhower memorial, Frank Gehry, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Marileny Peralta, modernism
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