Trump Issues Executive Order Mandating ‘Beautiful’ Architecture for Federal Buildings

With just a month left in his presidency and a pandemic raging across the United States, President Donald Trump has issued an executive order regarding the designs of federal buildings, making classical “and other traditional architecture” the standard style for new structures in Washington, D.C. and promoting “beautiful” exteriors for federal sites across the country. It takes particular aim at Brutalism and Deconstructivism, claiming that buildings in those styles have