Over the last few months, free online college courses or casual tutorials offering tips on building design, landscaping and interior decoration have popped up all over social media sites. The choices ...

My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.

Architecture inevitably entails large expenditures of money, and where there is money, there is politics. What might seem like strictly stylistic affinities are rarely only that. For patrons and ...

Confinement makes us more aware of architecture, if only of that little sliver of space in which we find ourselves penned. But so long as we have the internet we can be, like Hamlet, “kings of ...

In 1962, the man who was to become famous as Senator Daniel P. Moynihan wrote his “Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture.” These mandated that “major emphasis should be placed on the choice of ...

The order directs federal building in Washington to follow “classical” styles, such as that of the Treasury Building. - (Pete Kiehart/For The Washington Post) President Donald Trump signed an ...

A potential executive order aims to make federal buildings beautiful again, and President Trump’s critics are losing their minds. Last week, art enthusiasts and journalists began prognosticating about ...

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden revoked the “Promoting Beautiful Civic Architecture” executive order, closing one of the most absurd chapters of the Trump presidency. The order, which Trump signed ...

Ten months ago, a draft executive order leaked from the Trump administration, aiming to “make federal buildings beautiful again” by mandating they be in classical styles. Now, outgoing president ...

Borrowing from a highly decorative earlier era, baluster forms make a surprisingly modern appearance in the home. The graceful, simple shape is both stylized and sophisticated at once – translating to ...