Month: February 2020

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President Trump drafts rules for “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”

February 5, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
US Congress, Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again

The American Institute of Architects has called on members to sign an open letter to the Trump Administration after a plan to introduce an order that all federal buildings should be built in the “classical architectural style” was discovered. The AIA released the statement and online petition for the White House yesterday, shortly after the

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“Is it a greater offense to destroy all of the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, or the ideas he established?”

February 5, 2020 Alex Martinec 0
Opinion: Frank Lloyd Wright school closure

Following the news that Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin will close this year, first-year student Alex Martinec reflects on how it marks not just the end of a physical institution, but the architect’s way of thinking. On 28 January, we were called to an all-school meeting in the Atrium on the grounds

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Executive Order Could Make America’s New Federal Architecture Classical

February 5, 2020 Eric Baldwin 0

A new executive order by Donald Trump has the potential to make new federal architecture in the United States follow the classical style. Called “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”, the order would require rewriting the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, issued in 1962, to ensure that “the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style” for new and upgraded federal buildings.

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A Brazilian Art Collector’s Home With A Luxurious Glass Swimming Pool

February 5, 2020 HD Staff 0

The story of this home design began back when the client had the idea of situating a swimming pool in his apartment, a 477 square metre duplex in São Paulo, Brazil. Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados embraced the challenge, and proposed that a glass pool be made a novel part of the living room by amalgamating […]