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 (cont'd from yesterday's post)

Guidelines for construction of new federal buildings were set in 1961 by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. An optimal balance of environmental, societal and human benefits with cost is the goal. 

But maybe the 60-year-old guidelines should be updated. Americans don't like the almost exclusive modern, brutalist style that has dominated federal architecture for decades. A recent  executive order proposed that new federal office buildings in Washington, D.C., be of classical design.

American Institute of Architects objected to the proposed change, even though its own 2007 poll showed that Americans would enjoy it. 

It's time for the architectural elites to let the people's sense of architectural style be reflected in their own government buildings.