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ICAA Travel Revisited: Château de Saulon

ICAA Travel Revisited takes viewers to remarkable architectural and design destinations around the globe. In this installment, join Valentin Goux, president of ICAA Member Firm RINCK, on a tour of the Château de Saulon, located in Saulon-la-Rue, France.

Located in the heart of Burgundy's renowned wine region, this château originated in the 16th century, and was completely rebuilt in the 17th after it had been destroyed. Most recently, after having served for years as a hotel of average quality, the Château de Saulon was given a thorough rejuvenation by RINCK, resulting in this stunning transformation into a boutique hotel featuring reintroduced mouldings, picturesque wallpapers, rich textiles, and inspired colors. Join Valentin for the full tour!

ICAA Travel Revisited celebrates travel and the exploration of the world's great destinations for architecture and design. Learn more about the ICAA's upcoming travel tours, booking now for destinations around the world.

ICAA Travel Revisited is made possible thanks to the ICAA's Summer Travel Series sponsors James F. Carter Inc., Architect, Kathryn Herman Design, Kris Hermance, Myrna Kaplan, and Bill Brockschmidt.

Recently, in the warmth of a mid-July day, twenty high school students from Cristo Rey Chicago saw their city through new eyes. The ICAA’s Grand Tour, first held in 2019 with New York City students, is a program that delves into the built environments of America’s great cities, and prompts students to explore their city’s architectural history, interrogate its current urban plan, and offer their own contributions to its public spaces. Tailored to each host school’s home city, Cristo Rey Chicago students spent the day immersed in their city’s history through discussions, tours, and a design project where their creativity flourished.

Thanks to Kane Brothers, Inc. Landscape Design for their generous sponsorship of The Grand Tour Chicago.

Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education courses: Uberto Construction.

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

1.5 AIA CES Learning Units|Elective and 1.5 credits towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture

This course seeks to combine studio-based graphics coursework, such as perspective drawing and shade and shadow rendering, with field-based methods such as analytical drawing to create a resource for those seeking to hone their observational sketching skills in the field. Instructor Martin Burns of Ferguson & Shamamian Architects will break down, step-by-step, how a relatively quick and compelling sketch of any architectural element can be accomplished by those of all experience levels.

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

TOMORROW Wednesday, August 11

Christopher Spitzmiller is known to his friends and Instagram fans as the ultimate weekend farmer, who raises his own handsome chickens, grows his own flowers, and puts up his own jam, cider, and honey. In this—his first book—he treats readers to a full year at Clove Brook Farm, his idyllic but always-active country retreat. Filled with tips on garden-planning, creating seasonal flower arrangements, and living with animals, A Year at Clove Brook Farm is a timely book as we are all focused making the most of our own homes and gardens—even if that’s only a row of herbs in a sunny urban window—and it is the the perfect inspiration for anyone enthralled by the fantasy of full-on farmstead living.

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

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.

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) is proud to announce our partnership with Chatsworth House and the Duke of Devonshire for our six-episode series Chatsworth Through Time, exploring the history, architecture, landscape, and collections of Chatsworth House. Building on the success of our 2019 Summer Series at Sotheby’s, Treasures from Chatsworth, which featured lectures from renowned architectural historians, this new series explores the world of Chatsworth, with its own curators, Alice Martin, Head of the Devonshire Collection, and Dr. Alex Hodby, Senior Curator of Programme, as our guides.

Please join the ICAA for the premiere of Chatsworth Through Time, with the debut of the first two episodes of the series, “Episode One: The Tudor House” and “Episode Two: The Powerhouse” on August 26th, at 6:00 PM, Eastern time. The series features an introduction from the Duke of Devonshire, on-site footage, archival materials, and aerial photography of the site, as our guides delve into the history of the house, its construction, interiors, and collections. We are honored that Chatsworth has chosen the ICAA as partners to help make these videos accessible to a worldwide audience.

The ICAA is very grateful to Chadsworth Incorporated and Lisa Fine Textiles for their generous support of this program.

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 ICAA has resumed 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 calendar is rapidly filling up with new dates and journeys. Visit classicist.org or contact development@classicist.org to learn more.

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, on which participants will be joined by writer and historian Mitchell Owens.

Great Houses of the Berkshires SOLD OUT

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.

Private Chicago SOLD OUT

The ICAA is pleased to partner with Classical Excursions to present this exclusive tour of the private residences and architectural sites of Chicago, IL. Participants will be granted access to a number of the city's most beautiful private homes, and will have the opportunity to enjoy exclusive receptions and events.

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.

Covering two adjoining centers of stunning classical and neoclassical architecture built during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this exclusive tour is a firsthand opportunity to experience the glorious Rococo architecture and interiors ordered by, among others, Frederick the Great (1712-1786), the multi-talented Prussian connoisseur, patron, and practitioner of the classical arts during the Age of Enlightenment.

The ICAA is pleased to partner with Classical Excursions to present this exclusive tour, which will also include visits to the influential neoclassical work of Prussia’s most famous architect, Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), who designed public and private buildings so important that his name conjures up a whole era in Prussian culture known as the Schinkelzeit, or the Schinkel period.

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

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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.