What comes to mind when we hear the words classical architecture? The answer to that question is often embarrassingly narrow. The Parthenon and Pantheon are still there, of course, even if the ...

Justin Shubow and Carlo Ratti will debate the recent mandate to design civic buildings in a classical style. (Courtesy National Civic Art Society) “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again: A ...

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.

Although many of his designs remain unbuilt — with a few exceptions, including King Charles’s Poundbury — he was a driving force in the New Urbanism movement. By Clay Risen Léon Krier, whose city ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY William H. Dodge When ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order this week that states new federal buildings should be more like classical designs and “beautify public spaces.” The American Institute of Architects ...

Chicago’s Driehaus Foundation is on a grant-giving roll. Just a month after awarding sizable legacy grants to a trio of hometown organizations (Preservation Chicago, the Arts Work Fund, and the Better ...

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., will introduce legislation Wednesday to codify an executive order by former President Trump that made classical architecture the model for new government buildings ...

Presidents do not always have a profound effect on architectural design, but Donald Trump came to office in 2017 as a second-generation real estate developer with a substantial portfolio of buildings ...

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