One of the two dozen or so new Trump Administrations executive orders issued since assuming office includes a mandate for the restoration of an amalgam of classicism-inspired "traditional" architectural styles in all new federal government buildings.The newly signed Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture order directs the General Services Administration (GSA) to submit recommendations within 60 days that "advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government."The President, via the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, would then also have to be notified within 30 days of the GSAs approval of any new building design that deviates from the newly revised Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture. A consideration for the inclusion of comm...