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.

The order directs federal building in Washington to follow “classical” styles, such as that of the Treasury Building. - (Pete Kiehart/For The Washington Post) President Donald Trump signed an ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Trump's new executive order mandates classical architecture for federal buildings, ending decades of diverse design ...

Presidents do not always have a profound effect on architectural design, but Donald Trump came to office in 2017 as a second-generation real estate developer with a substantial portfolio of buildings ...

Although many of his designs remain unbuilt — with a few exceptions, including King Charles’s Poundbury — he was a driving force in the New Urbanism movement. By Clay Risen Léon Krier, whose city ...