March 2025 editor's letter | Architecture recording

At the end of January I had the opportunity to tour Smithsonian Castle on a short trip to Washington, DC, and now closed for a greater renovation that is expected to take several years. It was completed in 1855 in a combination of late Romanesque and early Gothic resuscitation styles and is unique. With its many towers in Red Sandstone, the castle was deliberately designed by James Renwick Jr. to stand out from the neoclassical federal buildings around them – a detail that had more meaning in view of the time of my visit, just a few days after the newly opened president with the title “with the title” with the title “with the title” with the title “with the title” “With the title” with the title “with the title”, he was issued only a few days after the newly opened president, a command order entitled “Instruction command entitled” With the title “With the title” With the title “called” Described “, only a few days after the newly opened president with the title with the title” With the title “with” Instruction instructions “, she was only a few days with the Title with the title with the title with the title “Given the fact”. Promotion of the beautiful federal state architecture. “Public buildings of the federal government should be visually identifiable as a citizens' building and respect the regional, traditional and classic architectural heritage to raise and beautify public spaces and to mock the United States and our self -administration system,” says the USA.

In the same week, the Boston town hall was shown as a historical landmark. The controversial citizen piece designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles (1968) in the brutalist style, which was designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles (1968) in brutalist style, does not represent a building that is probably not the kind of building that would probably not happen on the pattern. Also in January, the city of Dallas began with the crowding -out process of her in the Pei designed City Hall (1978), a bold, inverted pyramid, which may be abolished in a similar way today.

The lightning war of Executive Orders, Federal Employee Buyout offers and tariffs (especially on steel) In the first weeks of the new administration, many of us asked about the future of countless government departments and programs, and especially for the job that will affect architecture.

There are also effects on the Allied Arts – the architecture is inseparable. For example, let's take the Smithsonian. While Renwick wanted to assert the independence of this emerging organization – now the world's largest museum, education and research complex – it is not completely without state supervision. Museums also receive no federal subsidies. Although it may not be so easy to create plans for a building that break the floor or have been in design and checking for years, how could the topic of the exhibitions that start these museums – for example – be changed? It may be optimistic, but in this annoying time of more questions than answers, it is helpful to remember that the arts exist despite the taste and agenda of a single unit.