Shortly after signing onto this list I came across,
in a friend's studio, a copy of Architecture, Jan '96.
Starting with the new Boston federal courthouse on the
cover, it was all about "the government's largest public
building boom since the New Deal," page after page,
photo after photo, article upon article.
This program is, indeed, mostly a matter of courthouses,
huge and ubiquitous, as if, in the new American Rechtsstaat
that the endless output of stultifying legislation surely
anticipates, literally every citizen can be certain of
an air-conditioned day in court, a day at very least.
Initially I was keen to crank out an exhaustive distillation
of the issue's facts and figures, but other things happened,
time and attention passed, and now I just want to return it.
The info is worth your perusal, if only to fill up a few more
Ks in the Know Your Enemy dept. Bound volumes of Architecture
are available in a library near you, probably just down the
street from a new federal courthouse.
valis
"I know I am among civilized men
because they are fighting so savagely."
-- Voltaire
