For more than 25 years, New York–based architect Robert A.M. Stern has designed buildings that seamlessly fit into—and enrich—the Manhattan skyline. There’s the famous limestone 15 Central Park West, ...

Then things turned ugly. That’s at least according to this document. It claims that after the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space issued its “Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture” in 1962, ...

My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.

Classical federal buildings rank among the most revered structures in the United States, starting with the U.S. Capitol, the White House, and Supreme Court, all in Washington. These buildings have ...

The ICAA Summer Studio in Classical Architecture is a four-week immersive program introducing university students and recent graduates to skills, knowledge and resources essential to the practice and ...

Confinement makes us more aware of architecture, if only of that little sliver of space in which we find ourselves penned. But so long as we have the internet we can be, like Hamlet, “kings of ...

The proposed order, called “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” favors classical design for buildings in Washington. It has drawn opposition from architects. By Katie Rogers and Robin Pogrebin ...