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Last year, former President Trump drafted an executive order originally known as “
Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again” stipulating that all new federal buildings and monuments would be built in the Neoclassical style of architecture. Since then, President Biden has nixed this plan by revoking this order and, just last week, he appointed four new members to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which oversees all design-related undertakings such as this one.
Biden’s move will continue to allow for the creation of federal buildings and monuments in any architectural style, rather than solely adhering to the Greek and Roman-inspired Neoclassical aesthetic. As many pointed out following Trump’s proposed mandate, controlling the designs of buildings is something numerous dictators have done throughout history, including Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.