The recent "TALL DC: New Monumentalism" exhibition took a critical approach to how outdated urban building standards -- specifically in D.C. -- can affect the built environment and the field of architecture, even as social demands and technology progress. Graduate students of Emerging Technologies and Media at The Catholic University of America proposed three skyscrapers among D.C.'s historical monuments to further encourage the questioning of this notion and the definition of "a monument". — bustler.net
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CUA appears to have made a visual case FOR Washington height regulations, at least based on these designs. Typical irresponsible shock-itecture, versus real architecture.
Shockitecture, that's what they teach the kids under ever changing banners. Spot on.
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