In a memorandum issued on January 20, 2025 titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture”, the POTUS specified “that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as ...

When the 47th president does something right, he repents by doing something that contradicts it. Consider his excellent executive order about the importance of aesthetic good taste in governance ...

Issued during the blizzard of orders in his first full day in office, “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,” was thoughtful and sensible. Making amends for this, the president has ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The most interesting architecture story of recent months is neither Adrien Brody’s Oscar for playing an ...

In decreeing and signing the memorandum “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,” it would seem that Trump agrees. He appears to have overlooked the fact that there may not be enough ...

When considering Trump’s new aesthetic policy on federal buildings (the famously vague Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture executive order) there’s a line from The Princess Bride ...

Among the flurry of executive orders issued in the first days of President Donald Trump’s administration was one entitled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” That order directs ...

On Jan. 20 President Trump signed an executive order: Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. The president’s order upends the long used Guiding Principles of Federal Architecture.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...