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Janet C. Ross

ARTICLES & VIDEOS: NEW THIS ISSUE

Chief Designer of Hearst Castle and architect on over 700 projects throughout the West, Julia Morgan is one of the most prolific and important architects in the United States. A woman of many firsts, Morgan was the first woman admitted to the architecture program at l’École des Beaux-Arts in 1898, the first woman in California to be granted an architect’s license, and recently she was the first woman to earn the AIA Gold Medal for her pioneering achievements.

On March 22, 2022, Julia Morgan’s sesquicentennial year, the ICAA welcomed Victoria Kastner, who was the longtime official historian at Hearst Castle, for a talk centered around her new book, Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect, published by Chronicle Books. Drawing on Morgan’s unpublished letters and recently discovered diaries, Kastner provides the first comprehensive portrait of this architect’s inspiring career and private life.

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

This lecture, delivered by John Phibbs, principal and founder of Debois Landscape Survey Group, looks at Humphry Repton, one of the last great landscape designers of the 18th century, and investigates why and how he designed as he did, and, more importantly, at the architects that he collaborated with (James Wyatt, William Wilkins, John Soane, John Nash, John Carr and his two sons, G.S. and J.A. Repton, among others) teasing out the relationship between landscape gardener, architect, and client.

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, and Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss.

Rodrigo Bollat Montenegro has been named the winner of the 2022 Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition. The Award, which is now in its sixth year, is a collaboration between the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, The Prince's Foundation, and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU). Open to applicants around the world, the Award aims to shine a light on exceptional talent exhibited by young professionals in classical and traditional architecture, landscape and interior design, building crafts, urban design and planning, and the allied arts.

The ICAA would like to thank our 2022 Award for Emerging Excellence Sponsor, Robert Bump Construction.

ARTICLES & VIDEOS: PREVIOUS ISSUE

Our new mini-series Building Science breaks down the technical craft of designing buildings, using amusing anecdotes from a variety of experts. Hosted by building engineer and construction consultant Foster Lyons, this first episode features a rich conversation between four experts who take on the formidable topic of managing the effects of water on masonry buildings. From cornices to quoins, material science to mortar chemistry, and every other factor that protects a building from water damage, their conversation covers a variety of topics for architects and designers who want to learn about designing better buildings, and reveals that those classical design details on older buildings are far more than just decorations.

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The ICAA, INTBAU, and the Prince’s Foundation are pleased to continue their collaboration with The Architecture of Place: In Conversation with..., a series of interviews featuring three architects from different backgrounds and points of view: Marianne Cusato, Ben Bolgar, and Galina Tachieva.

Galina Tachieva is an expert in sustainable planning, urban redevelopment and form-based codes. As a managing partner at DPZ CoDESIGN, Galina directs the design and implementation of projects in the US and around the world. She is the author of the Sprawl Repair Manual, an award-winning publication, which focuses on the retrofit of auto-centric suburban places into complete, walkable communities. Galina is a Fellow of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and a founding member of the Council for European Urbanism (CEU). She led the CNU Sprawl Retrofit initiative for many years.

The ICAA would like to thank Ferguson & Shamamian Architects and McCrery Architects for their support of this event series.

NATIONAL CALENDAR: MULTI-DAY PROGRAMS

NATIONAL CALENDAR: CONTINUING EDUCATION

Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education: Uberto Construction

TONIGHT Tuesday, April 5th & Tuesday, April 12th

NATIONAL CALENDAR: PUBLIC PROGRAMS & LECTURES

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

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NATIONAL CALENDAR: ICAA TRAVEL PROGRAMS

The tour will cover three centuries of some of the region’s finest architecture. Both sides of the river have a rich legacy of styles, given the valley’s proximity to New York City, it had been the recipient of wealth spent on the construction of great architecture.

This tour, co-hosted by luxury travel planning company Indagare in partnership with the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, will offer special insight into the foundations—and innovations—of this ever-evolving, ever-inspiring city.

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NATIONAL CALENDAR: ICAA CHAPTER ONLINE EVENTS

TONIGHT Apr 5, 2022

Ohio and Lake Erie Chapter

10th Annual Addison Mizner Awards (In-Person)