Donald Trump’s design diktat for all new federal buildings prompts Mustansir Dalvi to reflect on needless revivalism ...

This brewing conflict isn’t merely aesthetic. It represents fundamentally different conceptions of how architecture should ...

Rather than embrace modernity, he wants to reverse course and return to Olde World using neoclassical architecture ... That means a facade of classical columns, pediments, and ordered rectangular ...

with striking columns, typically in the Doric style. This means that they have little decoration beyond a series of parallel grooves carved into the surface. Examples of neoclassical architecture ...

Known locally as Paris Galli, or Paris Street, it transports visitors to a European city with grand Neoclassical architecture and ... pilasters and columns, carved doors and ornate overhanging ...

This looming decree pits Trump’s neoclassical nostalgists — who seem to believe slapping columns on something magically creates timeless architecture — against those who understand that meaningful ...