Trump Signs Order to ‘Make Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’
The White House is revising a longstanding ban on an official government building style, instead favoring classical architecture and the firms who make it.
The neoclassical design for the new federal courthouse in Huntsville, Alabama, was selected under the first Trump administration.
Courtesy of Fentress Architects
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to establish classical architecture as the preferred style for US civic buildings, doubling down on a memo Trump issued just after resuming office in January.
With the new order, the White House has revised a longstanding ban against establishing an official style for government — and substantially boosted the profile of architecture firms that practice in a traditional style.