Jan 21, 2025 · SUBJECT: Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. I hereby direct the Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic ...

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of Andrea Palladio with several innovations on Palladian architecture by Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries.

Jan 21, 2025 · An architectural detail of the The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, photographed in Washington, D.C., in 2014. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

1 day ago · This table of contents is a navigational tool, processed from the headings within the legal text of Federal Register documents. This repetition of headings to form internal navigation links has no substantive legal effect. Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture; Memorandum for the Administrator of the General Services Administration

Jan 21, 2025 · In particular the order requests suggestions on how to update the US government's Guiding principles for federal architecture, which were created in 1962, and for increasing "community input" into ...

4 days ago · The Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, published in 1962, encouraged modernist styles over classical pastiche, arguing that government buildings should reflect contemporary design rather ...

Sep 19, 2024 · The Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture ensure that public buildings represent the interests and aspirations of the American people. These principles continue to steer the Public Buildings Service in its work.

Jan 21, 2025 · One of the two dozen or so new Trump Administration’s executive orders issued since assuming office includes a mandate for the restoration of an amalgam of classicism-inspired "traditional" architectural styles in all new federal government buildings.. The newly signed Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture order directs the General Services Administration (GSA) to submit ...

Jan 21, 2025 · In his EO related to architecture, Trump requested recommendations that would “advance the policy that Federal public buildings […] be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect ...

The Federal government has aspired to create architecture representative of our nation’s democratic principles since the early days of the republic. In recent years, the U.S. General Services Administration established the Design Excellence Program