President Donald Trump has made it clear that the aesthetics of government buildings will be a priority in his second presidency. His memorandum planted the flag: “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” The memo directs the head of the General Services Administration (GSA), the agency that oversees federal buildings, to send “recommendations to advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage,” and insists that those recommendations “consider appropriate revisions to the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture.”
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