Mussolini, for his part, used the Classical motif and identification with ancient Rome to frame his fascist regime as the rightful heir to the Roman Empire. Architecture was deployed to justify a ...

Roman Babakin via Adobe Stock The American ... mandates that more classical styles of architecture such as Neoclassicism be applied to public buildings, while rejecting Modernist ideas.

The order was titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” Classical architecture draws cues from Roman and Greek styles marked by columns and symmetry, similar to the Supreme ...