Drawing inspiration from the classical architecture of ancient Greece and ... visual representation of the Enlightenment ideals of order, beauty, and civic pride. It's no wonder the style became ...

Trump’s order, which mandates that ... Mandating specific styles misunderstands how classical buildings were revolutionary for their time. Architectural diversity better reflects democratic ...

When considering Trump’s new aesthetic policy on federal buildings (the famously vague Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture executive order) there’s a line from The Princess Bride ...

and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.” For decades, the US has been at the forefront ...

Like its 2020 predecessor, the new order has little to do with classical architecture in any meaningful way—which itself has been decontextualized from its ideologies, aesthetics, spatial ...

The language echoed an executive order during his first administration, in which he declared classical architecture — described broadly by Trump as styles derived from ancient Greece and Rome ...

More controversial was the original executive order’s insistence on architectural designs that “respect the regional heritage and align with America’s classical traditions.” But what ...

and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.” Respecting regional architecture when ...

Federal buildings "should respect regional, traditional and classical architectural heritage," per the executive order. Federal government real estate could be a target of Trump cost-cutting Trump ...

The order, issued yesterday among a slew of other headline-grabbing directives, mandates that more classical styles of architecture such as Neoclassicism be applied to public buildings ...