Anyone who has been observing the Tea Party can see that Trump is happy to tap into a long-percolating narrative of degeneration and the ruination of great American traditions through the corruption of the political establishment.
These discoveries are then re-presented to describe and reinterpret the building's properties and design ambitions through fictional processes of ruination and reconstruction.
Through this coloration, the widespread ruination of America's Edenic environment, celebrated in the mid-19th century, is commented on, too.
According to Caitlin DeSilvey, a cultural geography professor at the University of Exeter, some historic landmarks should be permitted to decay gracefully through a policy of managed "continuous ruination".
Siegel began his film with period photographs, displaying the fatigue and the ruination of the war; Coppola starts with sun rays slanting through moss-hung trees, and the child, with her basket of mushrooms, could be Little Red Riding Hood.
As Jim Fallows quips, "Through the entirety of my conscious life, America has been on the brink of ruination, or so we have heard, from the launch of Sputnik through whatever is the latest indication of national falling apart or falling behind.
Here he mans up to become the comic aggressor, the unstoppable, primitive force of chaos that rages through Mr. Hirson's 1991 play in verse about the ruination of theater, set in the age of Molière.
The exhibition spans two segments, Reconstruction and Ruination and Constructing the Domestic, which investigate the temporal and material aspects of architecture through making use of the existing or else by making anew.
You face utter ruination.
Ruination here takes so many other forms.
