After more than four years of wrangling over Frank Gehry's proposal for the Eisenhower memorial, the Eisenhower family has removed its objections to a modified version of the initial design. Although information about specific design changes and compromises was scant, according to Reuters the controversial steel "tapestries" will remain in some form on the family-approved version, even though Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society, referred to them as invoking the problematic imagery of an "iron curtain."
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like it or not, i think the architecture community can come together around the commonly held belief that shubow should fornicate himself with a shovel
^ that, we can all agree with, perhaps if we're lucky, he's the one "snowballing" Drumpf during off-days on the campaign trail.
Initially I was excited to see a public debate over contemporary vs. traditional / historicist monument design play out, then the debate actually occurred and I realized I didn't want to see a public debate on this issue. Thank you Shubow among others.
At the risk of kicking up more traditionalist angst, I liked the Johnsen Schmaling WWI memorial:
Would have been a nice public place to spend a quiet minute. Course you could say the same thing about the existing Pershing Park too. Maybe instead of monuments to war slowly overtaking DC and other cities we could instead embrace and maintain the public space we already have. That's one thought anyway.
Super disappointing. I still think the Eisenhower Memorial should be 10,000 rusty old Soviet T-54 tanks parked in multiple concentric rings around the Washington Monument with their turrets aimed inward.
In the made-for-tv movie about the Eisenhower Memorial controversy, titled "Barefoot Boys", the role of Justin Shubow will be played by Tony Hale.
Frank Gehry will be played by Judd Hirsch.
And Dwight Eisenhower will be played by Wallace Shawn.
Can I be the show runner?
and Susan Eisenhower will be played by Jane Lynch
Justin Shubow will be played by Tony Hale
davvid haha, goddamn that is perfect. You can always tell a Milford man - Shubow should be neither seen, nor heard.
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