A Call for a Proliferation of Polychromy

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This essay by Courtney Richeson asks the question of how a proliferation of polychromatic imagery of classical architecture and subsequent styles that seek to replicate it can begin the process of untethering and confronting architecture’s perpetuation of a false origin story derived from Greco-Roman tectonics, a similar narrative that has been adopted by the alt-right to promote white-supremacy.