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Why so many architects are angered by 'Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again'

  • Written by Kai Gutschow, Associate Professor of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
The U.S. Supreme Court building, completed in 1935, is considered a neoclassical masterpiece. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Decades of federal architectural policy would be upended if the Trump administration follows through on an executive order that was leaked to the Architectural Record on Feb. 4.

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