Shortly after Donald Trump’s election and his own appointment as Uncle Sam’s chief architect, David Insinga cited his involvement with the design and construction of a federal courthouse in Cedar ...

Why, in 2015, would anyone want to build a classical building? The answer: to reconnect present-day architecture and city building with American political ideals, history, and culture. This impulse, ...

In 1962, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant secretary at the Labor Department, prepared a memo on the use of federal office space for President John F. Kennedy. Into this document he tucked a ...

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

In 1962, the man who was to become famous as Senator Daniel P. Moynihan wrote his “Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture.” These mandated that “major emphasis should be placed on the choice of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In preserving architecture, there are many possible approaches—ranging from treating a building as a static monument, meticulously restoring it in situ to the point of limiting public access, to more ...

Editor's note: The AIA has issued an official response to the order. Read it here. Story last updated 3:30pm 12/21/20. On December 18, President Donald Trump signed a new Executive order into effect ...

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 ...