Trump Orders New Federal Buildings to Be Built in Ancient Greek and Roman Style

US President Donald Trump ordered all new federal buildings to be built in ancient Greek and Roman architecture style “to visually connect our contemporary Republic with the antecedents of democracy.”

In an executive order entitled “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again,” the president urges architects and engineers who will design federal buildings from now on, to make them using as a blueprint the monumental ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The aim is for federal buildings to bring to mind the birth of democracy and establishment of the United States based on those ideals, just as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson modeled the Capitol Building and the White House.

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