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ICAA Book Club: Old Homes, New Life: The Resurgence of the British Country House

On Tuesday, September 1st, 2020, the ICAA hosted Clive Aslet and Dylan Thomas for a special members-only livestream discussion about their new book, Old Homes, New Life: The Resurgence of the British Country House. Tom Kligerman moderated the discussion, and led a Q&A session in which Clive and Dylan answered questions from the virtual audience.

Clive Aslet is an award-winning architectural historian and journalist, acknowledged as a leading authority on Britain and its way of life.

Dylan Thomas is one of Britain’s foremost photographers of people and interiors,having begun work as an assistant to the internationally famous Lord Snowdon.

Thomas A. Kligerman, co-founder of Ike Kligerman Barkley, serves on the board of several charitable and educational institutions, including The Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation, and lectures frequently on topics including the cultural and architectural history of Cuba, the influence of the Shingle Style in American design, and the intersection of modern and traditional architecture.

Our special thanks to Presenting Sponsor of the ICAA Book Club: Foster Reeve Architectural & Ornamental Plaster

For the past century and a half, America’s colonial-period buildings have inspired countless architectural designs. With numerous illustrations, this class will explain the rationale of many of the forms and details that give character to colonial works, both northern and southern. Emphasis will be placed on domestic architecture, demonstrating how their design features, when properly applied, can serve to enhance literate, if not creative, contemporary modern versions.

Calder Loth's complete course is available online in two parts.

Join the ICAA and the Boston Design Center in celebration of Boston Design Week to hear an intimate group of industry professionals share their personal experiences and secrets on how they might interview other professionals within their own field and further, and explain the process that they go through to recommend other professionals to their clients to be part of the larger team.

ICAA New England Chapter president and architect David Andreozzi will host a fireside chat on Zoom with industry leaders including interior designer Suzanne Kasler in Atlanta, architect Anne Fairfax of Fairfax & Sammons in New York and Palm Beach, landscape architect Janice Parker in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Andrew Cogar, president of Historical Concepts Architecture and Planning in Atlanta and New York City.

The ICAA Southeast Chapter announces The Kyle Danley Taylor Memorial Scholarship for Architectural Studies, which has been established to honor the life and legacy of Kyle D. Taylor. With the vision supported by his family, the Scholarship was realized by those who affectionately knew and worked alongside Kyle at the architecture firm, D. Stanley Dixon Architect. Kyle, an architect and valuable member of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Southeast Chapter, was passionate about classical and traditional architecture of the Southeastern United States. This scholarship seeks to celebrate Kyle’s desire to study and learn from the masters of the past and the precedent they observed.

Please submit your completed application and required supporting documents for consideration by close of business on October 16, 2020.

The Chicago-Midwest Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art is pleased to announce the second annual Chicago-Midwest ICAA Design Competition, which is open to all ICAA members and member firms. Competition judgment will be “blind,” and entries may be submitted by individuals or teams of any number. Participants will have 2 months to conceive and illustrate designs for the commercial frontage along Chicago Avenue in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. The site is adjacent to, and includes, the old Laramie State Bank of Chicago. The winning entry will receive a $5,000 cash prize.

Please join the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) for a virtual lecture on Wednesday, September 23rd with Las Catalinas founder Charles Brewer, and Town Architects Sara Picado Bega, and Juan Carlos Avelar.

Surrounded by tropical nature on land and at sea, Las Catalinas is a beautiful, car-free, fully walkable beach town in Costa Rica. Over the last ten years, developer Charles Brewer has built a robust team of town architects who, together with many international traditional architects and architecture students, have led the design of numerous houses, restaurants, small hotels and inns, plazas, and parks in over sixty acres of construction. Las Catalinas has been the recipient of numerous accolades and has been published in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

In this live conversation, moderated by architect and ICAA Fellow Rodrigo Bollat Montenegro, founder Charles Brewer will be joined by Town Architects Juan Carlos Avelar and Sara Picado Bega. Together, they will discuss principles and experiences of placemaking at Las Catalinas, as well as provide an inside-look into how an ambitious vision is becoming a built reality.

Please join the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) for a virtual lecture on Wednesday, October 15th with Arne Maynard, who will be introduced by designer and ICAA Board Member Bunny Williams.

Arne Maynard is known for his love of plants and uses them to create year-round structure in his garden designs. Pleached fruit creates a wonderful boundary feature, topiary adds drama and geometry and sculpted earthworks provide texture and layers that can be clipped or left to meadow, depending on the season. In this online lecture, delivered live by Arne from Allt y bela, his home in Wales, UK, he will explain how he creates planted structure, talking us through some of his signature plants and explaining how he uses them in his designs. Using photographs and short films from his own garden and some private gardens he has designed that are rarely seen by the public, this lecture will give viewers a personal insight into Arne’s love of plants.

Presented as part of the Bunny Mellon Curricula at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The ICAA is very grateful to the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation for its generous support of this program, along with the Curricula's Lead Co-Sponsor Edmund D. Hollander Landscape Architecture Design and Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss.

Breakfast & Books: Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) is pleased to announce the next event in the Breakfast & Books series, in partnership with the Rizzoli Bookstore. Grab your favorite breakfast food and drink, and join us for a virtual lecture on Wednesday, October 21, to hear from Valentin Goux, who will be discussing Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution by Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide.

After initially working in the media and pursuing entrepreneurial activities in fashion, Valentin Goux began restructuring the Rinck Group’s communications and brand strategy in 2013, applying his experience in diverse communications realms. His success there naturally led to business development responsibilities, and he soon further demonstrated his savvy by generating strong business growth in London and New York. In 2017, he became the Rinck Group's Strategy and Development Manager and, in 2019, was appointed Rinck’s Vice President. Since July 2020, Valentin Goux undertook the role of President of the Group.

If you are interesting in purchasing this book, please visit the Rizzoli website here.

This lecture is presented as part of The Françoise and Andrew Skurman Lecture Series on Classical French Architecture

Presented as part of the Bunny Mellon Curricula at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The ICAA is very grateful to the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation for its generous support of this program, along with the Curricula's Lead Co-Sponsor Edmund D. Hollander Landscape Architecture Design and Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss.

ICAA Book Club: Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon

Please join the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) for a virtual lecture featuring Linda Jane Holden, Thomas Lloyd, and Bryan Huffman, who will be speaking on topics related to their new book Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon in a discussion moderated by Architectural Digest's Mitchell Owens.

Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is comprised of extracts from Bunny’s own writings and garden notes, as well as photographs and drawings from her archive.

A late acquaintance, Linda Holden learned that Bunny wanted to write a gardening book but never found the time. Searching the family’s archive after Mrs. Mellon’s death, the editors―whom all shared personal relationships with Bunny―discovered a trove of photographs, illustrations, and writings and have now turned it into the how-to gardening book Bunny had hoped to write.

Linda Jane Holden is a garden historian and the author of Presidents’ Gardens. She first became aware of Mrs. Mellon’s contributions to landscape design while working in the White House during the Reagan administration. She lives in the Northern Virginia portion of the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Thomas Lloyd is the grandson of Bunny Mellon and the president of the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. He lives in Washington, DC.

Bryan Huffman was a friend of Bunny Mellon and is an interior designer based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Mitchell Owens is the Decorative Arts Editor at Architectural Digest, and hosts the podcast The AD Aesthete.

Presented as part of the Bunny Mellon Curricula at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The ICAA is very grateful to the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation for its generous support of this program, along with the Curricula's Lead Co-Sponsor Edmund D. Hollander Landscape Architecture Design and Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss.

If your membership is due for renewal, or if you would like to join and support the ICAA, you can do so on our website.

The Annual San Francisco Fall Show, chaired by Suzanne Tucker, has moved online and will feature dealers from around the world, representing all styles and periods including American, English, Continental, and Asian furniture, art, and decorative objects, paintings, prints, photographs, books, precious metals, jewelry, rugs, textiles, and ceramics.

Traditional Building Virtual Conference

The Traditional Building Conference team has built a virtual conference hall worthy of the conference's typical historic venues. Through live video conferencing with speakers, networking chat rooms, and interactive sponsor booths, Traditional Building is bringing the community and resources of in-person conferences online.

The ICAA's New Edition of Henry Hope Reed’s Iconic Book, The Golden City

The ICAA is excited to announce that the all-new edition of Henry Hope Reed's revolutionary book, The Golden City, which celebrates classicism in American cities, particularly New York, is now available for purchase.

This 60th Anniversary Edition, published by The Monacelli Press, includes essays by Catesby Leigh and Alvin Holm that situate the book in the current world of classicism and preservation.

9^th Annual Addison Mizner Awards – March 6, 2021

The Palmer House (images)

Send a jpg to info@classicistchicago.org by Sunday evening for it to be posted to the ICAA Chicago-Midwest Instagram account on Monday afternoon. Be sure to include your Instagram handle in the email!

The Littleton Carnegie Library (images)

Cathedral of Sainte-Croix, Orleans (images)

Send a jpg to icasoutheast@gmail.com byMonday noon for it to be posted to theICAA Southeast Instagram account onMonday afternoon. Be sure to includeyour Instagram handle in the email!

Post an image of your sketch to Instagram by next Monday afternoon. Include a brief description along with following tags: @icaa_socal and #sketchtogetherathome.

Marienkirche, located in Fredericksburg, Texas (additional images on the Texas Chapter's Instagram account)

To share your sketches, post to Instagram and be sure to tag @icaatexas and use the hashtag #sketchingandscones.

You may also send images of your sketch directly to michele@icaatexas.org.

There is so much more available online at classicist.org: filmed lectures and public programs, panel discussions, and numerous online articles provide an opportunity to stay connected with the ICAA.