US president Joe Biden has officially undone Donald Trump's executive order requiring new federal buildings to be built in the classical style, 69 days after it was signed.
Biden announced a batch of revocations on 24 February 2021 including executive order 13967, titled Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.
The controversial order requiring all new government buildings to be "beautiful" and ideally built in a "traditional" style was signed on 18 December 2020 by the outgoing president after he lost the election.
Biden returns "freedom of design choice"
"By overturning this order, the Biden administration has restored communities with the freedom of design choice that is essential to designing federal buildings that best serve the public," said American Institute of Architects (AIA) president Peter Exley. "This is fundamental to an architect's process and to achieving the highest quality buildings possible. We look forward to continuing to work with the administration towards developing policies that create healthy, just and equitable communities."
The AIA rallied against the order when a draft was leaked in February 2020, organising an open letter condemning the government for attempting to restrict architects.

In its earlier iterations, the executive order threatened to ban certain styles of architecture such as brutalism entirely.
The final order stopped short of forbidding any architectural styles outright but...