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 ...

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 ...

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 millennia ...

Section 1. Purpose. The Founders, in line with great societies before them, attached great importance to Federal civic architecture. They wanted America’s public buildings to inspire the American ...

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 ...