President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he revives his fight against modern and contemporary architecture and ...

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Such recommendations shall consider appropriate revisions to the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture and procedures for incorporating community input into Federal building design selections.

His memorandum planted the flag: “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” The memo directs the head of the General Services Administration (GSA), the agency that oversees federal buildings, ...

Among his day one actions, President Donald Trump addressed an issue he tried to tackle in his first term – federal architecture. Trump issued a memorandum directing the General Service ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and more than 400 of its architect members will converge on Capitol Hill tomorrow ...

The Federal architectural style was borne out of America's desire to establish a cultural identity distinct from England's.

GSA’s existing guiding principles for federal architecture were enacted in 1962 to discourage an official government building aesthetic. A Trump insider said the change in policy will extend to ...

He cites the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building as a particularly egregious example of bad federal architecture. I, on the other hand, think it presents an apt façade — “looming horror” is ...

It called for federal public buildings to respect “classical architectural heritage,” implicitly taking aim at a more recent stylistic addition to the landscape of the nation’s capital ...

Trump’s executive order would impose classical style on federal buildings. Should we be worried? "There is reason for alarm in the rhetoric that the king of tasteless glitz is attempting to ...

Federal buildings "should respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage," per the executive order. President Donald Trump's initial executive orders as he returned to the ...