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July 9, 2024


This edition of Classicism at Home is dedicated to the ICAA's 2023 national conference, Enduring Places, which took place in Charleston, South Carolina and addressed topics of craftsmanship, preservation, and sustainability.


The ICAA is very grateful to John F.W. Rogers for generously making the Enduring Places conference possible along with our supporters The Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation, Historic Charleston Foundation, Oliveri Millworks, Traditional Building, and Schafer Buccellato Architects.


This edition of World of Classicism is sponsored by Haddonstone.

ARTICLES & VIDEOS: NEW THIS ISSUE

Charleston, South Carolina is unlike any other American city. In 1931, it established the very first historic district in the United States, and today it boasts perhaps the greatest concentration of surviving eighteenth and nineteenth-century structures in the country. Who were the people, both enslaved and free, who built these magnificent works of art? And what do traditional building methods mean today in the twenty-first century?


In this new documentary film produced by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art in partnership with the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation (formerly Classical American Homes Preservation Trust), architect Glenn Keyes hosts a tour of his native city and visits with the artisans, historians, and educators who are both preserving and expanding upon its rich legacy of architecture and design. Through their stories and by the work of their hands, this community keeps the historic traditions alive, in the hopes that we will learn from them, and use those lessons to design a better future.


Craftspeople of Charleston is now being distributed on PBS affiliated stations nationwide by the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA).


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ARTICLES & VIDEOS: PREVIOUS ISSUE

Affordable housing is one of the most significant challenges facing our cities and towns today. Once limited to gateway cities such as New York, San Francisco, and London, affordability is a challenge that faces nearly every American city and town. As we address these issues, it is essential to note that historic town-planning principles hold the secrets to success in solving the affordability crisis.


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Raymond L. Gindroz was a managing principal and Chairman of Urban Design Associates, an international practice in urban design and architecture. Under his leadership, the firm pioneered the development of participatory planning processes for neighborhoods, downtowns and regional plans. This included transforming inner-city neighborhoods and public housing projects into mixed income communities and working with downtowns to attract new development.


Hugh Petter joined ADAM Architecture as an Associate in 1993 and became a Director in 1997. Hugh is recognized worldwide for his residential portfolio, his master plans and new urban design, and commercial projects. Some current and recent projects are Nansledan, a major urban extension to Newquay for the Duchy of Cornwall and the new Levine Building at Trinity College in Oxford.

Construction of Charleston’s Gaillard Center began in the year 2012 and was complete by 2015. Designed by David M. Schwarz Architects of Washington, DC, this was an exceptionally complex project—combining a concert hall and large meeting rooms with municipal government offices, the massive structure rehabilitated an existing performance and convention center that had been unsympathetically dropped on an historic neighborhood in 1968. The new Gaillard Center brought healing to the fabric of Charleston by achieving several goals: softening the building’s impact on surrounding streets and open spaces, achieving a civic nobility of character, and adopting an eloquent ornamental program that valorizes the rich, diverse history of the site and the city at large. Beloved by the city’s citizens, the Gaillard Center has proven to be a beating heart of art and politics in Charleston, serving the public in ways that were even greater than initially imagined.


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Steve Knight is a Principal with David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc. He served as Project Architect for the design of Schermerhorn Symphony Center, The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, the Gaillard Center, and most recently an 8,000-seat amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama. He is currently leading the office’s team on the design of a neighborhood center for Chevy Chase Lake in Maryland and the multi-phase Residential College project at Vanderbilt University.


Michael T. Maher is the CEO of the WestEdge Foundation, Inc, the redevelopment entity that is building the WestEdge District. He is also an award-winning architect, city planner and educator. Prevoously Michael was the founding Director of the Charleston Civic Design Center and lead representative for the City of Charleston on the Gaillard Center Arts Precinct.


Nathaniel Robert Walker is an Associate Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture & Planning at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Nathaniel specializes in the history of urban form, public buildings, and shared spaces such as squares and streets, with a special focus on the ways in which people have used architecture to imagine and shape their dreams of a better world.

ARTICLES & VIDEOS: GINDROZ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING

The following programs are presented as part of The Richard H. Driehaus Curricula for the Built Environment at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The ICAA is very grateful to The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation for its generous support of this program. The ICAA would like to thank our Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education courses, Uberto Construction.


The ICAA is grateful for the support of The Muse Family Foundation for making the Gindroz Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing possible.

2.25 AIA CES Learning Units|HSW and 2.25 credits towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture (Elective)


Affordable housing remains one of the most challenging sectors in architectural design and a critical societal need across the United States. However, the design of place-based, dignified, affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods is in short supply. Public agencies, policymakers, institutions, developers, architects, and planners are making strides in addressing this deficiency.


Union - recipient of the 2023 ICAA Gindroz Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing – invests the same attention and care to the design of affordable housing as with all projects within their diverse practice. This session of the Case Studies series explores this work. The program begins with an overview of the context surrounding affordable housing, followed by a presentation of Union’s work in this field.


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2.25 AIA CES Learning Units|HSW and 2.25 credits towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture (Elective) for both parts


The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara (HACSB), recipient of the 2022 ICAA Gindroz Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing, is a public agency that has a long track record of providing safe and quality affordable housing and supportive services to eligible persons with limited incomes while also being a catalyst for thoughtful design.


The case studies examined in this two-part course include three projects built and operated by the HACSB and designed by the Cearnal Collective. The program begins with a series of presentations on the context both in Santa Barbara and nationally, followed by individual case studies of three affordable housing projects.


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0.25 AIA CES Learning Units|HSW and 0.25 credits towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture (Elective)


In this video presentation, Mallory Muse, Vice President of Community Development at the Muse Family Foundation, provides an overview of the unique challenges of designing and building high-quality affordable housing.


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