An article in The Architects Newspaper titled “How Trump’s arch gets classical wrong” gets it wrong. I’m not here to defend the design of the memorial arch proposed for a site near the Arlington National Cemetery, but to say that the arch represents “category error” because it doesn’t commemorate a military victory, like its inspiration, the Arc de Triomphe and the ancient Roman original, the Arch of Titus, is misleading. There have been several twentieth-century arches that do not commemorate victorious battles. The National Memorial Arch at Valley Forge, designed by Paul Philippe Cret and inaugurated in 1917 doesn’t,

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