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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that mandates all federal buildings “embrace classical architecture.” ...

Through this lens, it’s hard to see Bahk’s art as anything but critical to culture. The columns themselves float like architectural phantoms–ghostly footprints of humanity’s time on Earth.

Michael Hansmeyer uses algorithms invented by Pixar and painstaking handicraft to generate columns with dizzying detail.

Over the last two weeks, this column has featured interviews with the incoming and outgoing leaders of the architecture departments at USC and UCLA.

The order, which affects buildings like federal courthouses and agency headquarters, encourages classical styles rather than modernist aesthetics.

The architecture is linear, monotonous and domineering, with porticoes of tall, rectangular columns and strange, looping arches that gallop across the avenues like viaducts to nowhere.