The news that an executive order, entitled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” has been drafted mandating that “the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style” for ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY William H. Dodge When ...

For more than 25 years, New York–based architect Robert A.M. Stern has designed buildings that seamlessly fit into—and enrich—the Manhattan skyline. There’s the famous limestone 15 Central Park West, ...

Is modern architecture a “hideous cultural atrocity”? Is insisting on classical buildings the hallmark of a dictatorship? Readers engage in an aesthetic and philosophical debate. To the Editor: Re ...

Why, in 2015, would anyone want to build a classical building? The answer: to reconnect present-day architecture and city building with American political ideals, history, and culture. This impulse, ...

In 1962, the man who was to become famous as Senator Daniel P. Moynihan wrote his “Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture.” These mandated that “major emphasis should be placed on the choice of ...

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 ...

A Trump administration executive order effectively mandates classical building on federal projects. Jeff Meddaugh / Jeff Meddaugh The would-be architect-in-chief is at it again. Late last month, ...