The news that an executive order, entitled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” has been drafted mandating that “the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style” for ...

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...

The proposed order, called “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” favors classical design for buildings in Washington. It has drawn opposition from architects. By Katie Rogers and Robin Pogrebin ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

On October 19, AEI hosted a panel of experts to discuss the proposed executive order mandating classical architecture for federal buildings. AEI’s Gary J. Schmitt noted that Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s ...

Back in February, a drafted executive order stirred up controversy for its plan around “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.” The move would have broken from tradition to codify an official ...

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, ...

Even by the standards of today’s right-wing politics, it was a doozy. Specifically, the American First Caucus’s section on “Infrastructure” led with this passage (clearly written by someone who really ...

Is modern architecture a “hideous cultural atrocity”? Is insisting on classical buildings the hallmark of a dictatorship? Readers engage in an aesthetic and philosophical debate. To the Editor: Re ...