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 ...

Since humans first abandoned their nomadic ways and started building permanent settlements, architecture has been a powerful tool for communicating authority and ideologies. Rulers across millennia ...

US president Donald Trump has signed the Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again executive order to make classical architecture the preferred style for new civic buildings in the USA. Signed ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring traditional and classical architecture the "preferred" and "default" style for all major new federal buildings in the United States, ...

Justin Shubow and Carlo Ratti will debate the recent mandate to design civic buildings in a classical style. (Courtesy National Civic Art Society) “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again: A ...

One of President Donald Trump’s final actions in his first administration was a last-ditch attempt to confront the impermanence of a four-year term by leaving his mark on something that could last ...