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Last week, the Trump administration opened another front in the ongoing ... new federal buildings will follow a mandated preference for the classical style. Let Doric columns and entablatures ...
Simplistic historicism reduces architecture to superficial mimicry without understanding original context. Mandating specific styles misunderstands how classical buildings were revolutionary for ...
There is beauty and nuance in classical architecture ... taking pictures on the steps of the Capitol building, they also enjoy taking selfies in front of the National Museum of African American ...
The proposed executive order, circulating in draft form, mandates that new federal buildings, especially those in and around the District of Columbia, be built in “classical architectural style.” ...
Trump issued a memorandum directing the General Service Administration to advance policies that ensure federal public buildings "respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage ...
Respecting regional architecture when designing federal buildings is fine. Indeed the GSA does this already. But Trump’s call to give preference to traditional and classical designs could wind ...
Jim Banks of Indiana have introduced. The legislation would make classical architecture the default style for major federal buildings in Washington and classical or traditional regional ...
President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings ... wants federal architecture to “respect regional, traditional, and classical ...
will introduce legislation Wednesday to codify an executive order by former President Trump that made classical architecture the model for new government buildings but which was axed by President ...
But I disagree with his support for the Rubio-Banks legislation that would impose the classical style on most federal buildings. Had this act been in place for the last 100 years, we would have ...