Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of Andrea Palladio with several innovations on Palladian architecture by Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries.

Jan 21, 2025 · SUBJECT: Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. I hereby direct the Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic ...

Jan 21, 2025 · An architectural detail of the The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, photographed in Washington, D.C., in 2014. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

The Federal, or Adam, style dominated the American architectural landscape from roughly 1780 to 1840, having evolved from Georgian architecture, the principal design language of the colonial period. Fundamentally, it was the comparatively progressive European ideas about architecture that prompted this American change in taste to favor Federal ...

A committee set up by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 issued "Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture". Towards improving design of federal buildings in the United States, "the committee recommended architecture that would convey the 'dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American Government.'

Sep 19, 2024 · With these objects in view, the committee recommends a three point architectural policy for the Federal Government. The policy shall be to provide requisite and adequate facilities in an architectural style and form which is distinguished and which will reflect the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American National Government.