In “The Language of Architectural Classicism,” Edward McParland insists otherwise. An architectural historian and former pro-chancellor at Trinity College Dublin, Mr. McParland considers his view of ...

Classical architecture harks back to Greco-Roman building traditions—and has a stubborn association with political power. Skip to Main Content Explore Our Brands ...

Amid all the chaos emanating from the new administration, architects nationwide are bracing for another battle: Trump’s threatened classical-only mandate for federal buildings. This looming ...

W hy, in 2015, would anyone want to build a classical building? The answer: to reconnect present-day architecture and city building with American political ideals, history, and culture. This impulse, ...

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

Politics Trump revives push to make federal architecture ‘classical’ again. The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes ...

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 ...

A January 20th order directs Stephen Ehikian, a tech industry player serving as new acting head of the General Services Administration (GSA), to submit, within 60 days, “recommendations to advance the ...

Although many of his designs remain unbuilt — with a few exceptions, including King Charles’s Poundbury — he was a driving ...

Like its 2020 predecessor, the new order has little to do with classical architecture in any meaningful way—which itself has been decontextualized from its ideologies, aesthetics, spatial ...

An architectural detail of the The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, photographed in Washington, D.C., in 2014. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption ...