TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday [Dec. 21, 2020] making classical architecture the preferred style for federal buildings in Washington, a White House official said Monday.
The presidential action stops short of mandating that all new federal buildings are built in a classical style, saying merely that they must be ‘beautiful.’…
The administration has been writing the executive order for months, and an early draft that would have banned modernist design prompted condemnation from the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.”
-Justin Sink, “Trump Sets ‘Beautiful’ as the New Standard for Federal Buildings,” bloomberg.com, Dec. 21, 2020