Justin Shubow and Carlo Ratti will debate the recent mandate to design civic buildings in a classical style. (Courtesy National Civic Art Society) “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again: A ...

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 ...

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 Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY William H. Dodge When ...

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(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 ...

When considering Trump’s new aesthetic policy on federal buildings (the famously vague Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic ...

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 ...

McCrery Architects designed the Supreme Court gift shop—and a lot of churches. Now the iconic East Wing is being demoed for its massive ballroom design. Was Trump’s draft order on classical buildings ...