How The New Deal Changed American Architecture

The New Deal was created to pull America out of the depths of the Great Depression. As it unfolded during the 1930s, one federal agency - the Works Progress Administration - funded the construction of government buildings throughout American cities. In his book WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of the New Deal, Joseph Maresca highlights how these buildings and their Art Deco design signaled to the rest of the country that a new era was underway.