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 ...

Ten months ago, a draft executive order leaked from the Trump administration, aiming to “make federal buildings beautiful again” by mandating they be in classical styles. Now, outgoing president ...

My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.

A Trump administration executive order effectively mandates classical building on federal projects. Jeff Meddaugh / Jeff Meddaugh The would-be architect-in-chief is at it again. Late last month, ...

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., will introduce legislation Wednesday to codify an executive order by former President Trump that made classical architecture the model for new government buildings ...

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 ...