If there's one prominent architectural style that can be observed throughout history—and throughout the world—it's neoclassical architecture. With origins in the mid-18th century, this ...

Yet this Athenian democracy was, to put it diplomatically, imperfect. Only adult male citizens were allowed a voice in public ...

School: Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Course: Summer Studio in Classical Architecture Location: New York, USA Course dates: June 2024 to July 2024 Application deadline: 26 February ...

For the reasons mentioned previously, including “classical” architecture in this order is more than a little confusing and ...

Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war. The F.B.I. headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building ...

Federal architecture for 60 years embodied the administrative state’s rules and regulations. Imposed by unelected mandarins, federal designs celebrate technocracy and faceless power.

The title might suggest that this book follows the lines of John Summerson’s The Classical Language of Architecture (1964), but it certainly does not. Instead it discusses the ways in which this ...

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., will introduce legislation to codify an executive order from former President Trump that made classical architecture the model for government buildings.

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 ...

Washington, D.C., has a mix of both modernist and classical architecture. Trump’s previous directive included wording specific to the nation’s capital.