Justin Shubow is president of the National Civic Art Society, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that promotes the classical and humanistic tradition in public art and architecture. He is former chairman of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that is the aesthetic guardian of Washington, to which he was appointed by President Trump. Shubow has testified in Congress on topics such as the future of the National Mall and the design of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. He has published architectural criticism at Forbes online, First Things, Public Discourse, The Washington Post, and The Weekly Standard.
He has delivered talks on architecture and other subjects at the U.S. Department of State, American Enterprise Institute, Baylor University, Colorado College, Hamilton College, and the Universities of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Shubow received a B.A. from Columbia University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and completed four years of study in the University of Michigan’s Ph.D. program in philosophy; he has taught philosophy courses as an instructor at the University of Michigan and Yale College. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation and the Board of Academic Advisors of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. Carl Korsnes interviewed him recently about architecture for Sivilisasjonen.
Lecture : Ordinary people's aesthetic preferences in architecture
What are ordinary people’s aesthetic preferences in architecture, especially public architecture? This is a longstanding question that only a few have endeavored to empirically answer. In 2020, the National Civic Art Society undertook a survey of 2,000 American adults conducted by The Harris Poll of "Americans’ Preferred Architecture for Federal Buildings."
The poll found that 72% of Americans prefer classical and traditional design, and there were widespread majorities across all demographic groups, including political party affiliation, socioeconomic status, gender, and race. This talk will discuss empirical studies of public preferences in architecture, with special focus on the NCAS survey.
What explains the studies’ results? The talk will include a discussion of the response to such studies, including the response from architects and critics who are members of the architectural establishment. Does the establishment question the results or push back on them? The talk will also address political implications of the studies.
Credits: Dag W. Grundseth. Pixmedia
Subtitles : Frederik Nygård Stokvik. Ny Urbanisme Norge
6 окт 2024
