Trump’s Renewed Mandate for ‘Classical’ Federal Architecture Raises Concerns “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture” drew widespread criticism from many U.S. architects when it ...

Trump’s architecture mandate won’t make America’s federal buildings great again President Donald Trump wants to give preference to traditional and classical designs, a plan that could saddle ...

Trump's architecture mandate won't make America's federal buildings great again President Donald Trump wants to give preference to traditional and classical designs, a plan that could saddle us ...

Trump’s classical federal building mandate would make architecture backward again by Michael Roehr, opinion contributor - 04/02/25 1:00 PM ET ...

The term "classical" refers to Neoclassicism, the Georgian style, the Greek Revival, Gothicism, and other architectural modes that came prior to the modernist era.

President Trump dislikes brutalist architecture, the European-inspired trend that deposited concrete-clad federal buildings across the capital in the 1960s and ’70s. In his first week in office ...