Since humans first abandoned their nomadic ways and started building permanent settlements, architecture has been a powerful tool for communicating authority and ideologies. Rulers across ...

One day after issuing an executive order titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,” President Donald Trump appeared at a White House news conference Tuesday and praised the ...

The verbal quirk of President Donald Trump that has always most fascinated me is his predilection for the word “beautiful.” ...

President Donald Trump has made it clear that the aesthetics of government buildings will be a priority in his second presidency. His memorandum planted the flag: “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic ...

Orders the Administrator of the General Services Administration in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to submit recommendations to advance the policy that federal ...

Now the General Services Administration (GSA) has sixty days to deliver recommendations to President Donald Trump for “promoting beautiful federal civic architecture.” The executive order (EO ...

Within hours of ascending to the presidency, Donald Trump issued a memorandum designed to promote the beautification of federal buildings. The order continues a quest Trump began during his first ...

Under the “Promoting Federal Civic Architecture” order ... guidelines for federal buildings with an eye toward making them beautiful and appropriate again. The order calls for changes to ...

In December 2020, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” It aimed to encourage the use of traditional architecture in federal ...

Among them, modern architecture is also under fire. The order, Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture, promotes ...

Critics will reply as they did before: Who’s to say it’s not beautiful now? The 2020 executive order required federal buildings ... had severed American civic architecture from its cultural ...