Trump Administration Wades Into Design Criticism with Executive Order

Here's a political-but-not-political debate we're actually eager to see held: The recent "Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture" brouhaha, in which some design styles are definitively designated "beautiful" while others are deemed "ugly." In a nutshell the executive order, signed yesterday by Trump, insists Neo-classical architecture--not that Modernist or Brutalist stuff--should be the official style for new government buildings in D.C., and new federal...