‘Just Plain Ugly’: Proposed Executive Order Takes Aim At Modern Architecture
Elizabeth Blair | NPR | 13th February 2020
Political leaders have long expressed particular architectural preferences. Perhaps President Trump is one of them. Critical of Brutalist and Modernist styles, a proposed Executive Order requires new Federal buildings to use Classical designs. That means lots of Greek columns. Architects of all stripes are outraged. Sneers one writer, “a return to the cultural aspirations of Camelot.” Background on the issue is here.