On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump summoned a mob of angry supporters from across the country to Washington DC, where they were to join the president at a “Save America” rally. The premise for the rally was Trump’s oft-repeated and patently false claim that the 2020 presidential election had been “stolen” from him. In a speech given at the Ellipse, Trump incited the crowd, warning “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”¹1. Sam Cabral, “Capitol Riots: Did Trump’s Words at Rally Incite Violence?” BBC News, February 14, 2021, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437. Provoked by his incendiary rhetoric, the enraged crowd marched to the US Capitol Building, demanding that Vice President Mike Pence and Congress reject Joe Biden’s victory. Their intention was to disrupt the Electoral College vote count by Congress that would ratify the election results, and they did so by breaching, vandalizing, and looting both the grounds and the US Capitol Building. Five people died as a result of the storming of the US Capitol and more than 140 people were injured, with the insurrectionists causing upwards of thirty million dollars in damages. In the days following the insurrection, the shock and awe at the televisual and social media spectacle of the riot registered globally. The building stories that follow will consider these events from the vantage point of the architecture that housed them, utilizing architectural representational conventions to consider the roles that the built environment played in the insurrection.

2021 年 1 月 6 日，唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 从全国各地召集了一群愤怒的支持者前往华盛顿特区，他们将在那里与总统一起参加“拯救美国”集会。集会的前提是特朗普经常重复并且明显错误地声称 2020 年总统大选是从他那里“偷走”的。在椭圆形的演讲中，特朗普煽动人群，警告说“如果你不拼命战斗，你将不再拥有一个国家。” ¹1. Sam Cabral，“国会暴动：特朗普在集会上的言论是否煽动了暴力？” BBC 新闻，2021 年 2 月 14 日，https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437。被他的煽动性言论激怒，愤怒的人群游行到美国国会大厦，要求副总统迈克彭斯和国会拒绝乔拜登的胜利。他们的意图是破坏国会批准选举结果的选举团计票，他们通过破坏、破坏和抢劫场地和美国国会大厦来做到这一点。袭击美国国会大厦造成 5 人死亡，140 多人受伤，叛乱分子造成的损失超过 3000 万美元。在暴动之后的几天里，全球都对电视和社交媒体上的暴动奇观感到震惊和敬畏。接下来的建筑故事将从容纳它们的建筑的有利位置考虑这些事件，