The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes designs ...

In a welcome act of bureaucratic courage, last month members of the city’s landmark commission began the lengthy process of ...

Since humans first abandoned their nomadic ways and started building permanent settlements, architecture has been a powerful tool for communicating authority and ideologies. Rulers across ...

President Trump wants federal buildings with classical and traditional designs. Architecture experts have concerns.

Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. The president’s order upends the long used Guiding Principles of Federal Architecture. The Principles have served ...

Two executive orders signed by President Trump will impact designs for new federal buildings. The President issued a similar ...

His memorandum planted the flag: “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” The memo directs the head of the General Services Administration (GSA), the agency that oversees federal buildings, ...

The order calls for changes to the GSA’s guiding principles for federal architecture to “advance the policy that federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and ...