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Trump’s Plan for Federal Buildings: Make America Old Again

FOOL’S GOLD

While superficially bowing to the past, Trump’s draft proposal for regulating federal architecture would undo two centuries of precedent going back to Benjamin Latrobe.

Jean H. Baker
Jean H. Baker
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Jean H. Baker

Jean H. Baker

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