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.

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s new book, “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...

Regardless of whether they favor New Classicist architecture themselves, architecture buffs interested in contemporary design will find the trends laid out in this volume quite thought provoking.

SOUTH BEND — Thomas Gordon Smith, professor emeritus and former chair in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, died Tuesday. He was 73. After earning bachelor’s and master’s ...

Well, intriguingly, an elegant exhibition currently at the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects downtown dispels both prejudices. “Learning from Tradition: Beaux-Arts Student ...

New bill aims to reverse decades of ugly federal building construction by mandating preference for classical architecture ...

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 Executive Order imposes authoritarian aesthetics for buildings, codifies kitsch and signals a broader assault on ...

301 Pine Street-one of the historic buildings that comprised our financial system on the West Coast-began its life in 1915 as a sub-treasury building for the United States Treasury. In 1930, when the ...

(CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that mandates all federal buildings “embrace classical architecture.” “In the District of Columbia, classical architecture shall be ...