The order directs federal building in Washington to follow “classical” styles, such as that of the Treasury Building. - (Pete Kiehart/For The Washington Post) President Donald Trump signed an ...

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 millennia ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declaring “classical and traditional” architecture the preferred government styles, reviving and expanding his old fight against modernist ...

Trump’s desire for classical architecture has shaped the design of the new Washington Commanders stadium. With a ring of ...

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 buildings ...

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 decree ...

Studies the influence of classical architecture, as evidenced by symmetrical proportions, formal arrangements of parts, and formal settings, on American architectural styles; includes examples from ...

My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.

An executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday is set to usher in a new era of older aesthetics in federal buildings. The order lays out a plan for federal buildings — from courthouses to ...

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Dramatic columns are a key feature in the Colonial Revival style. JUST SOUTH OF THE URBAN CORE, DELANEY PARK IS ONE OF ...