According to a new survey, Americans want their courthouses to have columns, pediments, and brick, and not “glass, concrete, and sharp geometric shapes.” The survey was commissioned by the National Civic Art Society (NCAS), a nonprofit organization that is devoted to promoting classical architecture for Federal buildings and to banishing modern and contemporary design for lacking “traditional humanistic standards of beauty.”
The survey, conducted by Harris Polls, canvassed 2,000 adults (across race, region, education level, income, and party lines, from Baby Boomers to Gen Zers). Each respondent was shown seven pairs of images of unidentified federal buildings: each pairing comprised one building in a classical style and one modern, and the respondent was then asked, “Which of these two buildings would you prefer for a U.S. courthouse or federal office building?” The responses, based on that methodology, led NCAS to declare that “an overwhelming majority of Americans—more than seven in 10 (72 percent)—prefer traditional architecture for U.S. courthouses and federal office buildings.”
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