"Psychologically and culturally, it reads to me as nostalgia weaponized into branding," noted one architect.

"Psychologically and culturally, it reads to me as nostalgia weaponized into branding," noted one architect.

"Psychologically and culturally, it reads to me as nostalgia weaponized into branding," noted one architect.

For American artists and architects, the structures embody the virtues and vulnerabilities of the republic. The president’s proposal breaks the pattern.

The president’s Ozymandias moment, briefly explained.