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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...