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In this Act: (1) 2025 dollars The term 2025 dollars means dollars adjusted for inflation using the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s Gross Domestic Product price deflator and using 2025 as the base year. (2) Administration The term Administration means the General Services Administration. (3) Administrator The term Administrator means the Administrator of General Services. (4) Applicable Federal public building The term applicable Federal public building means— (A) all Federal courthouse and agency headquarters; (B) all Federal public buildings in the National Capital Region; and (C) all other Federal public buildings that cost or are expected to cost more than 50,000,000 in 2025 dollars to design, build, and finish, but does not include infrastructure projects or land ports of entry. (5) Brutalist architecture The term Brutalist architecture means the style of architecture that grew out of the early 20th-century modernist movement that is characterized by a massive and block-like appearance with a rigid geometric style and large-scale use of exposed poured concrete. (6) Classical architecture (A) In general The term classical architecture means the architectural tradition— (i) derived from the forms, principles, and vocabulary of the architecture of Greek and Roman antiquity; and (ii) later developed and expanded on by— (I) Renaissance architects, including Alberti, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Palladio; (II) Enlightenment masters, including Robert Adam, John Soane, and Christopher Wren; (III) 19th Century architects, including Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Robert Mills, and Thomas U. Walter; and (IV) 20th Century practitioners, including Julian Abele, Daniel Burnham, Rafael Carmoega, Charles F. McKim, John Russell Pope, Julia Morgan, and the firm of Delano and Aldrich. (B) Inclusions The term classical architecture encompasses styles such as Neoclassical, Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Art Deco. (7) Deconstructivist architecture The term Deconstructivist architecture means the style of architecture— (A) generally known as deconstructivism; and (B) that emerged during the late 1980s that features fragmentation, disorder, discontinuity, distortion, skewed geometry, and the appearance of instability. (8) General public The term general public means members of the public who are not— (A) artists, architects, engineers, art or architecture critics, instructors or professors of art or architecture, or members of the building industry; or (B) affiliated with any interest group, trade association, or any other organization whose membership is financially affected by decisions involving the design, construction, or remodeling of public buildings. (9) Preferred architecture The term preferred architecture means the architecture described in section 3(3). (10) Public building The term public building has the meaning given such term in section 3301(a) of title 40, United States Code. (11) Traditional architecture The term traditional architecture means— (A) classical architecture; and (B) the historic humanistic architecture, including— (i) Gothic; (ii) Romanesque; (iii) Second Empire; (iv) Pueblo Revival; (v) Spanish Colonial; and (vi) other Mediterranean styles of architecture historically rooted in various regions of America.