The news that an executive order, entitled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” has been drafted mandating that “the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style” for ...

For more than 25 years, New York–based architect Robert A.M. Stern has designed buildings that seamlessly fit into—and enrich—the Manhattan skyline. There’s the famous limestone 15 Central Park West, ...

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...

The proposed order, called “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” favors classical design for buildings in Washington. It has drawn opposition from architects. By Katie Rogers and Robin Pogrebin ...

This article has been updated to include a statement from the AIA that was released after publication. Amid this week’s presidential inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declaring “classical and traditional” architecture the preferred government styles, reviving and expanding his old fight against modernist ...

Is modern architecture a “hideous cultural atrocity”? Is insisting on classical buildings the hallmark of a dictatorship? Readers engage in an aesthetic and philosophical debate. To the Editor: Re ...

HOUSTON — Should all federal buildings look like the U.S. Supreme Court? A group that opposes modern architecture has drafted an executive order, titled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” ...

A few weeks ago, in the seminar I teach on architecture and film, we screened The Fountainhead, the 1949 classic drawn from the book of the same title by Ayn Rand. Its protagonist, played with ramrod ...