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Remember postmodern architecture? Those patchwork buildings with bits of classical decoration and bright colors that were all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s? Think of the AT&T Building with its ...
While there have always been classical revivals in architecture, the most recent iteration of this was the postmodern movement, beginning in the late 1970s and ending, for the most part, around ...
President Trump, a former builder, signed an executive order Monday intended to promote neo-classical architecture as the official style for federal buildings in Washington, DC., and at new ...
The nation’s capital is the only American metropolis where debates still break out periodically between architectural traditionalists and architectural modernists. Why does this debate — once ...
Essential Arts: The White House’s controversial plan to mandate Classical architecture The U. S. Supreme Court building was designed in the Neoclassical style by Cass Gilbert.
The Founders favored the classical style. The Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act would make it the standard.
Following his inauguration yesterday, President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy from his first term that favors "classical" styles for government buildings over modernist ones. The newly ...
The Summer Studio in Classical Architecture course at ICAA teaches students the knowledge of classical design through lectures, seminars and site visits.
Architects denounce Trump's call for ‘traditional and classical’ architecture The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has criticised an executive order signed by the new president, claiming ...
That said, neoclassical architecture is more than a nostalgic nod to antiquity—it’s a powerful visual representation of the Enlightenment ideals of order, beauty, and civic pride.