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 ...

Washington — a city built from scratch to be the nation’s capital — has always been a battleground for a so-called “American architecture.” From the city’s creation in the 1790s, grandiose classical ...

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 the ...

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing classical architecture as the “preferred and default” style for federal buildings, the latest way Trump has sought to put his stamp ...

Among the flurry of executive orders that have accompanied the beginning of the second Trump administration, it might be easy to think that the directive entitled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic ...