Robert Hughes re fascist architecture commemorating 9/11

[pynchonoid]

" [...] Speer's most successful piece of architectural
theatre was the brilliant feat of announcing the
Führer at Nürnberg by training hundreds of searchlight
beams up into the sky, like Doric columns of light. It
was a magnificent conception which, 60 years later,
would be plagiarised by the Americans to mark the
disappearance of the World Trade Centre on September
11, 2001. No credit was given to Speer, who was dead
by then. [...] "

from:
Of gods and monsters 
In 1978 Robert Hughes interviewed Albert Speer, the
architect of Hitler's grim vision. But he mislaid the
tape recording of their meeting and it was lost -
until one day he decided to clear out his attic 
Saturday February 1, 2003
The Guardian 
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,885724,00.html>


"Brock [...] leaning darkly in above her like nay of
the sleek raptors that decorate fascist architecture."
(Vineland, p. 287)


-Doug





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