THE HOUSE OF PATRIOTIC DEVOTION

 

 

Dear Architect,

Perhaps we shouldn’t launch such a competition. The answer might be very simple: The Ultimate House of Patriotic Devotion is a Casino.

The kind the new President of the United States proved himself quite capable of building and managing.

Indeed, wouldn’t it sound appropriate?

THE CASINO, as the ultimate House of Patriotic Devotion.

But we do ask you to envision THE ULTIMATE HOUSE OF PATRIOTIC DEVOTION, to be planted right in front of the White House, so the new president would have the delight to see it daily, to contemplate daily the aura of unending bliss that his presidency, no doubt, is and will be bringing to all of us.

Yes, please design THE SUMMUM OF WHAT "PATRIOTIC DEVOTION" could mean, architecturally.

Do not be afraid to exalt the idealism and purity of what these words mean: "patriotic devotion.”

We almost feel we heard these words before, about 80 years ago or so, somewhere in Europe.

Then, there was a deceiver who conquered the imagination of an exhausted country and its people.

Now, another deceiver is doing the very same thing.

WE ASK YOU TO ENVISION THE ULTIMATE HOUSE OF PATRIOTIC DEVOTION, again, to be situated right in front of the White House.

Please make it pure, dear architect, as pure as the thoughts and the feelings of the great Casinos builder, the man of great vision, the kind so very rarely comes upon this earth of ours.

Of course, please make sure the wording you will use will just be ENGLISH, nothing but ENGLISH, since anything else would be illegal, very soon, even outside of the United States.

The vision of the great man encompasses more than his country.

This is a global vision, one that only a true casinos builder could have.

Perhaps we should plant a casino in front of the White House… where the great man could continue to have unprecedented visions of human bliss.

But we invite ANY proposal that would make the great man even happier than he is. Even greater than he is. Even more of a seer than he is.

LET’S ALL REJOICE IN THE GREAT AGE AHEAD OF US, when patriotic devotion would animate ALL CASINOS OF THIS WORLD, FOR THE SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT OF ALL PEOPLE PLAYING ROULETTE, POKER, and so on.

No doubt, it takes a man of true vision to build casinos and certainly a man of the greatest patriotism.

DESIGN THE HOUSE OF ULTIMATE PATRIOTIC DEVOTION.

Site: IN FRONT OF THE BLESSED WHITE HOUSE, in WASHINGTON.

Please send us ANY work, ANY size and ANY format that responds to the theme. The deadline to submit your work is May 1st, 2017. Please register by April 15th, to receive a registration number with which to anonymously identify your work. We will exhibit all the works received and we will also display them on our website. We feel it is imperative to have our voice heard, since political life has a strong impact on all of us.

Thank you,

ICARCH Gallery

 

The jury for this competition is:

 

Manijeh Verghese - The Architectural Association - London

Nerma Cridge - The Architectural Association - London

Stefan Cristian Popa - The Architectural Association - London

 

 

To download the CAD site plan please click on the image below.

 





In order to better understand the style of Patriotic Devotion, now that the inaugural day of the new presidency was called The National Day of Patriotic Devotion, we urge you to carefully study this style through the pictures below, which accurately show the depth of this most altruistic feeling in the world, that is, the least egocentric.

Let us make no mistake: patriotism means to place PATRIA and its citizen in front of anyone and anything else. And the pictures below show nothing else: this modest penthouse in New York belongs to the very SELFLESS ONE, the one who has given himself fully to and for the others, in TOTAL DEVOTION and with no self interest at all.

Also, please do not ignore the highly spiritual side of all of this. The style of this quite humble penthouse is unmistakably reticent, betraying the strong spiritual undercurrent, without which, obviously, a sincere patriotism and devotion are impossible to fathom.

Thank you,

ICARCH




The Trump penthouse in the Trump Tower - New York City

 

 

 

 

 



On the other hand, it is hard to understand the following paradox: it seems there are double standards here, if we consider that the Muslim ban did not reach the very chef d'ouevre of the one who initiated this ban: The Trump Taj Mahal Casino, obviously inspired by the great Muslim monument in India. How come the Anti-Muslim stance didn't reach this "eighth wonder of the world," as its creator called it?... Isn't it bizarre?...

If we are not mistaken, here does seem to be a deviation from the patriotic devotion mentioned above... we are puzzled. But you, dear competitor, hopefully will elucidate this mystery... how come the promoter of Patriotic Devotion and the initiator of a strong Muslim Ban, didn't ban the very name and the very "architecture" of his beloved masterpiece?... Perhaps subliminally at least, there might be hidden here an admiration for the very object of the ban.

 



 

 



 



 





Why didn't he vet them through extreme means...? Is a Taj Mahal Casino truly patriotic?... And is it Anti-Muslim?

Why didn't he vet them through extreme means...? Is a Taj Mahal Casino truly patriotic?... And is it Anti-Muslim?

Why didn't he vet them through extreme means...? Is a Taj Mahal Casino truly patriotic?... And is it Anti-Muslim?