White House may be drafting executive order to make federal architecture more classical

Published February 4, 2020 9:35pm ET



The Trump administration may be crafting an executive order that would require all new federal buildings to be designed with a classical appearance.

The Architectural Record claims to have obtained a copy of the order, “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.” According to the report, the order makes reference to the architectural taste of the Founding Fathers, who styled buildings from “democratic Athens” and “republican Rome.”

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