The order directs federal building in Washington to follow “classical” styles, such as that of the Treasury Building. - (Pete Kiehart/For The Washington Post) President Donald Trump signed an ...

Architecture speaks volumes about how any culture sees the world and the values that guide it. When Americans think of the buildings that best reflect our values, we think of landmarks like the ...

A draft order by Donald Trump to make all new federal buildings classical is the latest example of how traditional architecture is used to disguise racist agendas, says Phineas Harper. Entitled Making ...

American history is incarnate in the streets of Washington D.C. Take a 20-minute walk almost anywhere in the capital and you’ll pass a handful of historically significant homes. Indeed, whether built ...

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has clearly made a good impression in China, as the British firm has unveiled yet another major project slated for the Middle Kingdom – the seventh we've reported on in a ...

As Donald Trump's championing of classical architecture resurfaces the traditional-versus-modernist style debate, Lizzie Crook explores what the public wants from the way buildings look. The US ...

La Guardia Municipality in Pontevedra, Spain. Image © José Luis Cernadas Iglesias [Flickr], licensed brand CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Last October 23, in the small Galician ...

Kashmir, the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent, is famous for two things: landscape and conflict. The scenic valley from which it gets its name, some 90 miles long and 25 miles wide, was ...

Even for those who grew up in big-city apartments, the word engawa—roofed, wooden verandas often running around the outside of traditional Japanese buildings—magically conjures up feelings of ...

Housing secretary Michael Gove has backed a report which calls for the creation of a new architecture school which would ‘wholeheartedly revive traditional architecture’ The report, published by right ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...