The order, issued yesterday among a slew of other headline-grabbing directives, mandates that more classical styles of architecture such as Neoclassicism be applied to public buildings ...

But take a closer look and you’ll start to notice that buildings from similar periods of history often share characteristics and features — they belong to the same architectural style.

Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. The president’s order upends the long used Guiding Principles of Federal Architecture. The Principles have served ...

The order was titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” Classical architecture draws cues from Roman and Greek styles marked by columns and symmetry, similar to the Supreme ...

The Haussmann style of architecture, which is also sometimes described as Haussmannian, is the classic architecture that has defined modern-day Paris, and is probably what you think of when you ...