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.

(CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that mandates all federal buildings “embrace classical architecture.” “In the District of Columbia, classical architecture shall be ...

Trump's new executive order mandates classical architecture for federal buildings, ending decades of diverse design ...

New bill aims to reverse decades of ugly federal building construction by mandating preference for classical architecture ...

Trump’s Executive Order imposes authoritarian aesthetics for buildings, codifies kitsch and signals a broader assault on ...

There is something profoundly un-American about the Trump administration’s mandating of architectural style, a move typical ...

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 ...

With a new executive order, the President has turned his attention to remaking our federal buildings—and it’s not a good look ...