Trump orders new government buildings must be beautiful
President Donald Trump has passed an executive order stating new US government buildings must be beautiful just one month before Joe Biden takes office.
The order, titled Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture, was passed on Monday 21 December 2020. President-elect Biden will be sworn in on 21 January 2021.
Classical architecture to be encouraged
Trump s order stipulates that new buildings commissioned for the federal government must be beautiful and names classical and traditional architecture as the preferred style, but stops short of banning other styles, such as brutalism. Encouraging classical and traditional architecture does not exclude using most other styles of architecture, where appropriate, reads the order.