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In this Act: (1) 2025 dollars The term 2025 dollars means dollars adjusted for inflation using the Gross Domestic Product price deflator of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, with 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 (A) In general The term applicable Federal public building means— (i) any Federal courthouse; (ii) any Federal agency headquarters; (iii) any public building in the National Capital region (as defined in section 8702 of title 40, United States Code); and (iv) any other public building, the cost or expected cost to design, build, and finish of which is more than $50,000,000 in 2025 dollars. (B) Exclusions The term applicable Federal public building does not include an infrastructure project or a land port 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 includes 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 and 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) Officer The term officer has the meaning given the term in section 2104 of title 5, United States Code. (10) Preferred architecture The term preferred architecture means the architecture described in section 2(3). (11) Public building The term public building has the meaning given the term in section 3301(a) of title 40, United States Code. (12) Traditional architecture The term traditional architecture includes— (A) classical architecture; and (B) the historic humanistic architecture, including Gothic, Romanesque, Second Empire, Pueblo Revival, Spanish Colonial, and other Mediterranean styles of architecture historically rooted in various regions of the United States.