Among the flurry of executive orders that have accompanied the beginning of the second Trump administration, it might be easy to think that the directive entitled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Architectural rendering of the Grand Penn Community Alliance's proposal for the classical façade at Penn Station's 7th Avenue entrance (all images courtesy Grand Penn Community Alliance) The Grand ...