In his raft of day 1 executive order signings, President Trump revived an old hobbyhorse from his previous term: “traditional ...
The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes designs that he says “command respect.” ...
The neoclassical style, popular from 1895 to 1955, represented the revival or return to the Greek classics in architecture. With grand architecture that emphasized symmetry and balance ...
It is true that in the early days of the republic, America’s first architectural mode was in the neoclassical style. But the elite 18th-century men who encouraged such aesthetics, such as Pierre ...
At its core, Art Nouveau architecture sought to break away from historical revival styles, such as Gothic or Neoclassical architecture, that dominated much of the 19th century. Instead ...