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The skyline of Washington, D.C., including the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and National Mall, seen on June 15, 2014. Credit: AFP via Getty Images President Biden Revokes Trump s Controversial Classical Architecture Order By Arbiters of good taste often disagree. That is certainly true of architecture. Late Wednesday, President Biden revoked a controversial executive order former President Trump signed in December called Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. The announcement from The White House was included in an executive order that revoked a number of Trump s actions as president. When Trump first proposed the executive order, it was clearly an out-with-the-new, in-with-the-old approach to architecture. He called modern federal buildings constructed over the last five decades (think boxy, concrete-heavy Brutalism) undistinguished, uninspiring and just plain ugly.

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