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 the ...

President Donald Trump has commissioned architect James McCrery — a prominent figure in the revival of classical architecture and a designer of some of the most beautiful “new traditional” Catholic ...

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing classical architecture as the “preferred and default” style for federal buildings, the latest way Trump has sought to put his stamp ...

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, ...

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 ...

The U.S. General Services Administration Building at 1800 F Street NW in Washington, D.C. The Beaux-Arts structure was originally built in 1917 to house the Department of the Interior. August 29, 2025 ...

Amid all the chaos emanating from the new administration, architects nationwide are bracing for another battle: Trump’s threatened classical-only mandate for federal buildings. This looming decree ...

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 ...

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, ...

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