Outrage erupted over a leaked memo suggesting that President Trump would issue an Executive Order creating a preference that federal buildings be designed in a classical style. Continue Reading »
“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” Trump’s draft executive order, mandates a reorientation of Uncle Sam’s architectural patronage along traditional—and above all, classical—lines. Continue Reading »
An executive order on President Trump’s desk promises to put an end to the reign of mediocrity in federal architecture. Continue Reading »
The recovery of meaningful church architecture hinges upon the retrieval of a realist metaphysic. Continue Reading »
Celebrations of Ruskin’s polymathic genius usually miss the role of Christianity in his outlook and writing. Continue Reading »
Our throwaway culture has come to include entire buildings. Everywhere one looks, one senses the impermanence of place. Continue Reading »
The Diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand, should rebuild the destroyed Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in its former style—not give it a new design. Continue Reading »
The architecture of the Palace of Westminster, which once seemed to dignify the business of the place, has been diminished by the Parliament inside it. Continue Reading »
It turned out there was no need to condemn Sigismondo to hell—his own defeats brought him to his knees. The Tempio Malatestiano, moreover, is now an active church, and people are trickling in for Saturday confession. Our group stops for discussion, and we concede a reluctant parallel with our own American Sigismondo, and then we imagine the ruins of a bankrupt Trump hotel, its deserted lobby the setting for a humble Mass. Continue Reading »
A new Roman Catholic church, dedicated to St. Thomas Aquinas, has risen at the Newman Center of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Designed by architect Kevin Clark, the church and center together came in at a cost-effective $25 million. St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church is a classic . . . . Continue Reading »
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