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Triumphalist architecture

Claim

For many dictators, such as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, architecture became the physical embodiment of their manic dreams, usually built on collective violence and ludicrous tyranny. Their monumental structures reveal the sham world of the dictators without exposing their horror. Hitler's plans for Berlin, deliberately compared to the works of the Pharohs, depended upon slave labour for their construction, and vast ordered ranks of humans to fill them. The scale of Stalin's grandiose, triumphalist constructions was completely dissociated from any collective meaning.

Broader

Triumphalism

Aggravates

Gender-insensitive buildings

Aggravated by

Compulsion of leaders to leave permanent monuments

Type

(J) Problems under consideration

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