Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
Memorandum
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January 30, 2025
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Document 2025-02037
Summary
On January 20, 2025, the President issued a memorandum directing the General Services Administration to recommend ways to ensure federal buildings reflect traditional and classical architectural styles, enhancing public spaces and celebrating American civic heritage. This initiative aims to revise existing architectural guidelines and incorporate community feedback in federal building designs. While this move could enrich public architecture, it may also spark debate over the balance between traditional aesthetics and modern architectural innovation.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 8485]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02037]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 19 / Thursday, January 30, 2025 /
Presidential Documents
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Memorandum of January 20, 2025
Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
Memorandum for the Administrator of the General
Services Administration
I hereby direct the Administrator of the General
Services Administration, in consultation with the
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the
heads of departments and agencies of the United States
where necessary, to submit to me within 60 days
recommendations to 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. Such recommendations
shall consider appropriate revisions to the Guiding
Principles for Federal Architecture and procedures for
incorporating community input into Federal building
design selections.
If, before such recommendations are submitted, the
Administrator of the General Services Administration
proposes to approve a design for a new Federal public
building that diverges from the policy set forth in
this memorandum, the Administrator shall notify me,
through the Assistant to the President for Domestic
Policy, not less than 30 days before the General
Services Administration could reject such design
without incurring substantial expenditures. Such
notification shall set forth the reasons the
Administrator proposes to approve such design.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, January 20, 2025
[FR Doc. 2025-02037
Filed 1-29-25; 8:45 am]
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