Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets has better uniforms *and* academic freedom [2/2]. vtcc.vt.edu

A specter is haunting Australasia. It seems lost.

OK, now I want to read a *book* on the subject.

I'd love to read an essay explaining the 50-year deterioration of 1970s buildings. FBI, National Gallery East Wing, Hirshhorn, Air and Space. Was it architecture, construction, budgets? Did the older stuff (Federal Triangle, NGA West Wing) also deteriorate and was just maintained better?

Lots of weird stuff in that op-ed. My top objection would be lumping FBI with Breuer's HUD building, which gives me joy every time I see it. (No comment on what it's like to work there; I've never been inside.)

I don't think that was a factor. President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue (1962) was. As architect Carter Manny complained at a CFA meeting, “There are so many bases that have to be touched on this thing, this has been frustrating."

Zachary M. Schrag, “‘Rather Strong Advisory’: William Walton’s Commission and the Challenge of the FBI Building,” in Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, edited by Thomas Luebke. University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. www.umasspress.com/978016089702...
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For those interested, I happen to have published an essay on just this question. Short answer: Commission of Fine Arts does architecture, National Capital Planning Commission does planning, and when the two agencies don't talk, bad things happen.
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