Although many of his designs remain unbuilt — with a few exceptions, including King Charles’s Poundbury — he was a driving ...

W hy, in 2015, would anyone want to build a classical building? The answer: to reconnect present-day architecture and city building with American political ideals, history, and culture. This impulse, ...

Amid all the chaos emanating from the new administration, architects nationwide are bracing for another battle: Trump’s threatened classical-only mandate for federal buildings. This looming ...

Following his inauguration yesterday, President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy from his first term that favors "classical" styles for government buildings over modernist ones. The newly ...

Politics Trump revives push to make federal architecture ‘classical’ again. The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes ...

Government Buildings Don’t Have to Be Ugly The Founders favored the classical style. The Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act would make it the standard.

A January 20th order directs Stephen Ehikian, a tech industry player serving as new acting head of the General Services Administration (GSA), to submit, within 60 days, “recommendations to advance the ...

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., will introduce legislation Wednesday to codify an executive order by former President Trump that made classical architecture the model for new government ...

Trump’s classical federal building mandate would make architecture backward again by Michael Roehr, opinion contributor - 04/02/25 1:00 PM ET ...

Like its 2020 predecessor, the new order has little to do with classical architecture in any meaningful way—which itself has been decontextualized from its ideologies, aesthetics, spatial ...

Classical architecture harks back to Greco-Roman building traditions—and has a stubborn association with political power. Skip to Main Content Explore Our Brands ...

An architectural detail of the The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, photographed in Washington, D.C., in 2014. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption ...