A Declaration of Independence From Robert Stern Architecture

Hidden City co-editor Nathaniel Popkin, who recently published an Inquirer piece about Robert A.M. Stern’s unappealing design for the Museum of the American Revolution (rendering above), has gone a step further in his opposition: He’s written a Declaration of Architectural Independence that serves as the basis for a petition on Change.org.

Those who sign the petition, which is directed to the City of Philadelphia Art Commission, “demand that the Commission use its full Power and Prestige to rectify this abominable design and replace it with one that will, in body and in spirit, embrace the City and the Revolution it purports to celebrate.”

The Declaration in full, below.

Via Hidden City.

• We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident [Hidden City]

• A Declaration of Architectural Independence: No Reactionary Design for a Revolution Museum! [change.org]