Special thanks to: Foster Reeve Architectural & Ornamental Plaster

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) is a nonprofit membership organization committed to promoting and preserving the practice, understanding, and appreciation of classical design. Learn more at classicist.org.

On April 11th, 2021, the ICAA North Carolina Chapter was pleased to collaborate with the Reynolda House Museum of American Art to present a lecture by art historian Judith B. Tankard: A Sense of Harmony: Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

The Arts and Crafts Movement is known for its rich legacy of architecture and decorative arts in both Britain and the United States. The movement also played an important role in defining the garden as a harmonious component of the house. Arts and Crafts gardens were designed with an appreciation for local craftsmanship and historical antecedents. The movement championed regional traditions, from the Cotswolds to New England. Beautiful flower borders, regional garden architecture, and a sense of intimacy are essential characteristics that can inspire today's gardens. A selection of gardens both old and new on both sides of the Atlantic shows the movement's diversity and appeal.

Presented in collaboration with the Reynolda House Museum of American Art 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 Hollander Design Landscape Architects, Film Series Co-Sponsor Janice Parker Landscape Architects, Landscape Prize Co-Sponsor Harrison Design, Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss, and Garden Symposium Co-Sponsor Kathryn M. and Ronald J. Herman Charitable Foundation.

In 2019 the ICAA was honored to host award-winning landscape architect Edmund Hollander, FALSA, and Melissa Reavis of Hollander Design Landscape Architects, for a discussion of Judith B. Tankard’s book Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden: From the Archives of Country Life.

The talk was a part of Breakfast & Books, in partnership with Rizzoli Bookstore, a series that gives ICAA members and guests the opportunity to hear renowned practitioners discuss the books that have influenced their work.

The ICAA is pleased to announce the 2021 Dorothy LaPolla-Czarnecki Scholarship, sponsored by John LaPolla and LaPolla Designs. This scholarship is offered in honor of John's late mother Dorothy LaPolla-Czarnecki for her unwavering encouragement and promotion of education. John, his family, and company continue this legacy of support and mentorship of aspiring students and craft persons in education and the arts.

In 2021, the Dorothy LaPolla-Czarnecki Scholarship will support two participants for the Christopher H. Browne Savannah Drawing Tour.

Each year, the ICAA is also pleased to award four scholarships to drawing tour students or emerging professionals annually in the name of Mr. Browne, a long-time supporter and champion of classicism. Scholarship recipients will receive the moniker “Christopher H. Browne Scholars.”

Additional scholarships for the Christopher H. Browne Savannah Drawing Tour are available thanks to the Southeast and Southern California Chapters of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.

The ICAA’s drawing and study courses are centered around the long tradition of studying architecture in the field through measured, analytical and perspective drawing in sketchbook. These techniques have been used by practitioners since the renaissance to document precedents for reference in contemporary design.

The 2021 Christopher H. Browne Savannah Drawing Tour provides an opportunity to study, through field drawing, the rich diversity of architecture and unique urbanism of Savannah, Georgia - a living laboratory of design, building, and planning from the 18th century to the present day. Each day is structured around studying representative examples of building types that form the fabric of Savannah, with a focus on their composition, detail, and contribution to the urbanism and landscape of the city.

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

Landscape architect Thomas L. Woltz has forged a body of work that integrates the beauty and function of built forms with an understanding of cultural context and ecological processes. Please join the ICAA in collaboration with Classical American Homes Preservation Trust (CAHPT) for a virtual program on Wednesday, June 23, in which Thomas will discuss how a research-based design process can reveal and connect contemporary audiences to the underlying stories of the land in a lecture filmed at CAHPT’s Edgewater site in Barrytown, New York.

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 Hollander Design Landscape Architects, Film Series Co-Sponsor Janice Parker Landscape Architects, Landscape Prize Co-Sponsor Harrison Design, Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss, and Garden Symposium Co-Sponsor Kathryn M. and Ronald J. Herman Charitable Foundation.

Please join architectural historian Oliver Gerrish and CEO of Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust Sarah McLeod for the first installment of the ICAA Summer Travel Series on Monday, June 28th. Oliver and Sarah will present a specially made video of the state rooms of Wentworth Woodhouse with an introduction to this enormous Palladian mansion and its history, as well as the current restoration and renaissance.

Special Thanks to our Summer Travel Series Sponsors Bill Brockschmidt, Kathryn Herman Design, Kris Hermance, James F. Carter, Inc., Architect, and Myrna Kaplan

Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education courses: Uberto Construction.

The ICAA's online Continuing Education courses are presented by Douglas C. Wright Architects.

1 AIA CES Learning Unit|HSW | 1 credit towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture (Elective)

Today, the immense demand for new housing is driving a building boom in our cities, and much of this new housing must be accommodated by way of infill development in older neighborhoods. Profound change within the architectural profession, the construction industry, and the overall culture of building in our society, since the time these neighborhoods were originally built, has created a crisis of compatibility between old and new.

This session will examine a multi-family infill project in the historic district of Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, designed by Torti Gallas & Partners and recently completed in 2020. Sarah Alexander, Principal Designer, and Anthony Catania, the Project Architect, will discuss both the challenges and benefits to working in a historic district, and how the design responded to this process and to its context.

Scholarship applications are due for the ICAA Intensive in Classical Architecture: Houston

Scholarship applications are due for the 2021 Christopher H. Browne Savannah Drawing Tour

Scholarship applications are due for the 2022 ICAA Intensive in Classical Architecture: New York

In a statement from Founding Partners Mark Ferguson and Oscar Shamamian, they stated, "we are very pleased that now, four members of our executive committee—Stephen Chrisman, Thomas McManus, Damian Samora, and Scott Sottile—are joining us as Partners of the firm. Together, along with Principals Andrés Blanco, Peter Francis, and Andrew Oyen, the nine of us look forward to the future as we continue in our endeavor to create architecture with integrity, character and beauty."

The ICAA is pleased to announce the resumption of in-person travel programs in 2021, once again opening access to a world of design and architectural discovery and inspiration, and offering the opportunity to share unforgettable experiences with fellow classicists.

The first tour of 2021 to the Hudson River Valley is sold out, but the calendar is rapidly filling up with new dates and journeys. Visit classicist.org or contact development@classicist.org to learn more.

Great Country Houses of the Hudson River Valley SOLD OUT

This tour, arranged in conjunction with Classical Excursions, will cover three centuries of some of the region’s finest architecture. Both sides of the Hudson River have a rich design legacy, and given the valley’s proximity to New York City, it had been the recipient of substantial investment in the construction of stunning architectural treasures.

Immerse yourself in the art, architecture, riads, and romance of Marrakech on this special journey crafted and co-hosted by luxury travel planning company Indagare in partnership with the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.

Join this tour arranged in collaboration with Classical Excursions to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, where idyllic villages like Stockbridge and Lenox are located near bucolic lakes and rolling hills, vied with Newport and Bar Harbor as a resort colony for the wealthy and socially prominent.

The ICAA is pleased to partner with Classical Excursions to present this once-in-a-lifetime tour of Derbyshire, England. During the course of this program, participants will have the special opportunity to tour some of the county's most exquisite private residences and architectural sites.

The ICAA is pleased to partner with Classical Excursions to present this exciting tour of Copenhagen, Denmark and beyond. This tour will open doors to some of the area's most outstanding examples of classical design, allowing participants to tour beautiful private residences and other architectural sites.

Call for Entries:

Please note: All projects must be submitted electronically. No physical submissions will be accepted.

For information regarding sponsorship of the 2021 Stanford White Awards, please contact development@classicist.org.

The ICAA Florida Chapter is pleased to announce the Call for Submissions for Contemporary Classical: Architecture, Urbanism and Craft in Florida and the Greater Caribbean, Volume I of the Chapter’s new print publication series Classical Florida.

Contemporary Classical: Architecture, Urbanism and Craft in Florida and the Greater Caribbean will document and celebrate Florida’s and the Caribbean’s most accomplished classically-oriented work in architecture, urban planning, interior design, landscape architecture, craftsmanship and related arts and disciplines. The publication will be an attractive, large-format, rigorously documented and widely distributed overview that includes photography, plans, drawings and texts related to each featured project, and will also include a critical appraisal and an historical overview of classical work in Florida and the Greater Caribbean.

Participation in Contemporary Classical: Architecture, Urbanism and Craft in Florida and the Greater Caribbean is open to all ICAA members who have completed projects in Florida and the Greater Caribbean (individuals and firms may join the Florida Chapter of the ICAA at any time by visiting https://www.classicist.org/membership).

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 intent to enter deadline is June 25, 2021, and the final submission deadline is July 20, 2021.

The deadline for all entries and submission fees for the 2021 John Staub Awards is August 14, 2021.

The regular submission deadline for the 2021 Philip Trammell Shutze Awards is June 18, 2021 and the late submission deadline at a higher entry fee is June 25, 2021.

The student/emerging professional deadline is June 25, 2021.

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.