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, ...

Amid all the chaos emanating from the new administration, architects nationwide are bracing for another battle: Trump’s threatened classical-only mandate for federal buildings. This looming decree ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he ...

I agree with Myron Magnet (“Government Buildings Don’t Have to be Ugly,” op-ed, June 27) that the early years of the U.S. produced some of our finest federal buildings, most in the Greco-Roman ...

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 ...

Architecture has long been a profession in aesthetic apartheid. The profession’s favored aesthetic, Modernism, has relegated all other “styles” to marginalized insignificance in laud, teaching and ...

The headmaster of St. Benedict Classical Academy (SBCA), an independent Catholic school in Natick, Massachusetts, often says that architecture is a student’s first teacher. Jay Boren was so convinced ...

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 ...