Claude Lorrain, "Capriccio with ruins of the Roman Forum" (c. 1634), oil on canvas (image public domain US via Wikimedia Commons) Among the flurry of executive orders that have accompanied the ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump never implemented a proposed measure that would have effectively banned new federal buildings from being constructed in the modern style, but one government agency has put its ...

Among his day one actions, President Trump is reviving his first-term efforts to promote classical architecture for federal buildings. Among his day one actions, President Donald Trump addressed an ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he revives his fight against modern and contemporary architecture and pushes ...

Sixty years before a draft executive order from the Trump administration rattled the architectural world, a young public servant named Daniel Patrick Moynihan decided to make federal buildings ...

No design style is more intertwined with early America than Federal architecture, and it makes sense when you consider that this architectural movement saw its boom just after the American Revolution.

Rumors are swirling that the Trump administration wants to madate that all future federal buildings be designed in neoclassical style. (Courtesy Architect of the Capitol/Flickr) “The AIA strongly ...

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President Trump might rewrite the GSA's Guiding Principals of Federal Architecture in favor of neoclassical design. (Shealah Craighead/White House Flickr) The news comes just one week after the GSA’s ...