Civic architecture – our public libraries, train stations, swimming pools, schools, and other community facilities – is more than just functional infrastructure. These buildings are the lifeblood of ...

President Donald Trump has made it clear that the aesthetics of government buildings will be a priority in his second presidency. His memorandum planted the flag: “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic ...

President Donald Trump's executive order on federal architecture embodies the wisdom of Winston Churchill: “We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.” ...

In his raft of day 1 executive order signings, President Trump revived an old hobbyhorse from his previous term: “traditional” architecture. In a brief memo, he declared that the General Services ...

In a welcome act of bureaucratic courage, last month members of the city’s landmark commission began the lengthy process of ...

Federal properties "should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ...

Since humans first abandoned their nomadic ways and started building permanent settlements, architecture has been a powerful tool for communicating authority and ideologies. Rulers across ...

traditional and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.

In his EO related to architecture, Trump requested recommendations that would “advance the policy that Federal public buildings […] be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect ...

National Gallery of Art in Washington which was designed by John Russell Pope in the neoclassical style. Roman Babakin via Adobe Stock The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has criticised ...

That order declared that all federal buildings should “respect architectural heritage ... chairman of the National Civic Art Society, a group that advocates art in the classical tradition ...

While the Biden-quashed 2020 mandate effectively blanket-maligned most forms of modern architecture, D.C.’s wealth of Brutalist civic buildings came under particularly intense scrutiny by ...