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 ...

Architecture speaks volumes about how any culture sees the world and the values that guide it. When Americans think of the buildings that best reflect our values, we think of landmarks like the ...

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 ...

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, ...

After the Revolutionary War, the new nation of the United States of America set about establishing itself. While statesmen concentrated on writing our Constitution and codifying the laws that would ...

What comes to mind when we hear the words classical architecture? The answer to that question is often embarrassingly narrow. The Parthenon and Pantheon are still there, of course, even if the ...

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 ...