On August 28, President Trump signed a new executive order intended to help him reshape Washington, D.C., in his image. The order, titled “Restoring America’s Architectural Grandeur,” requires federal ...

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 ...

This article has been updated to include a statement from the AIA that was released after publication. Amid this week’s presidential inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump, ...

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 ...

Sure, it’s a dog whistle for “retvrn” types and the results are tacky—but that’s not the worst part. In his raft of day 1 executive order signings, President Trump revived an old hobbyhorse from his ...

Architecture inevitably entails large expenditures of money, and where there is money, there is politics. What might seem like strictly stylistic affinities are rarely only that. For patrons and ...