HUD and FBI are departing their brutalist architecture style headquarters in Washington, keeping in the spirit of an ...

Federal-style architecture was popular in the United States from 1780 to 1840. It’s credited to brothers and British architects Robert and James Adam, which is why it’s also known as Adam style.

In a memorandum published on Inauguration Day, Trump said he wants federal architecture to “respect regional, traditional, ...

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 ...

Yet this Athenian democracy was, to put it diplomatically, imperfect. Only adult male citizens were allowed a voice in public ...

In federal architecture, these messages are often contiguous to the message of transparency celebrated in modernist structures: equality, access, justice, fairness.

But in 1962, that changed when President John F. Kennedy established new federal architecture guidelines, including a directive that “design must flow from the architectural profession to the ...

So this Executive Order wished to return federal architecture to that tradition, which essentially lasted from the Founders up until World War II.” After the memorandum was signed, Shubow hailed ...

24/7 Wall St. Insights Federal architecture emerged out of the American desire to establish a cultural identity distinct from British influence. Some iconic Federal style buildings include the ...

Bring stately elements into your existing space with the defining features of Federal-style architecture. Federal-Style Architecture Still Feels Timeless Centuries Later—Here Are 7 Key Elements ...

Politics Trump revives push to make federal architecture ‘classical’ again. The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes ...