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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...