The 2020 election was over when Donald Trump issued an executive order, a few days before Christmas, mandating that the federal government sponsor only “beautiful public architecture” in styles befitting the dignity of our government and its role in our national life. It outlines a number of appropriate styles, including the Georgian and Federal, but also all humanistic architecture: Pueblo Revival, Spanish Colonial, Romanesque, “and other Mediterranean styles of architecture historically rooted in various regions of America.”
That is, of course you didn’t need to put up a New England–style federal courthouse in New Mexico, where a more native style might be appropriate.
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