It is a perhaps deluded expectation that art can reveal the Turning in which it was produced.
At the risk of confirmation bias here is one example that worked :
This is the United States Air Force Academy Chapel. For a place of worship, this is really quite radical architecture. For one at a service academy - what could be expected as a conservative bastion - even more so.
On second view, though, it is also aspirational, pointing to the heavens and looking to the future. Perhaps it is more a product of an age when anything is possible.
And from that came the conclusion that it is First Turning, but late enough for the radical design to be accepted. (Note for comparison that the barracks are very functional and limited in appeal ... although they also can be seen as a version of mid-century modern.)
The answer, as it turns out, is that the Air Force Academy Chapel was completed in 1962 - near the end of the American High (First Turning), just before the start of the Consciousness Revolution (Second Turning).
At the risk of confirmation bias here is one example that worked :
This is the United States Air Force Academy Chapel. For a place of worship, this is really quite radical architecture. For one at a service academy - what could be expected as a conservative bastion - even more so.
And from that came the conclusion that it is First Turning, but late enough for the radical design to be accepted. (Note for comparison that the barracks are very functional and limited in appeal ... although they also can be seen as a version of mid-century modern.)
The answer, as it turns out, is that the Air Force Academy Chapel was completed in 1962 - near the end of the American High (First Turning), just before the start of the Consciousness Revolution (Second Turning).
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