Inspired by the early Florentine Renaissance churches of Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) and by the classicist architecture of Californian Arthur Brown (1874–1975), the $23 million Our Lady of the ...

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

Government Buildings Don’t Have to Be Ugly The Founders favored the classical style. The Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act would make it the standard.

Classical architecture does not have a monopoly on those values, of course. But sometimes modern designs fall short of properly conveying them in the nation’s public buildings.

I agree with Myron Magnet (“Government Buildings Don’t Have to be Ugly,” op-ed, June 27) that the early years of the U.S. produced some of our finest federal buildings, most in the Greco ...

Gabby Henderson and Eric Figueroa of Waldorf, Md., wait together in rapidly dropping temperatures for their commuter bus at L’Enfant Plaza, Washington, D.C., Monday, January 6, 2014.

By Justin Davidson, New York Magazine’s architecture and classical-music critic since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002. Feb. 10, 2020 save d ...

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 revives push for classical federal architecture Among his day one actions, President Trump is reviving his first-term efforts to promote classical architecture for federal buildings.