Sponsored by: Haddonstone

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.

Antigua Guatemala is known throughout the world for beautiful Spanish Colonial architecture and urbanism, which has been largely preserved throughout the centuries. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979, Antigua presents valuable lessons in Classical Architecture and traditional urbanism applicable to the design of new buildings today. In this lecture delivered by Rodrigo Bollat Montenegro, a licensed architect based in Guatemala City, viewers can discover the city of Antigua and study its urban form, as well as select public and private buildings: from their relationship to the public realm, to its architectural intricacies.

The ICAA would like to thank our Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education courses, Uberto Construction.

On May 5th, 2021, the ICAA National Office and the New England Chapter of the ICAA were pleased to partners with The Magazine Antiques for this lecture by CeCe Haydock, which details the fabulously wealthy Medici bankers who towered over Tuscany during the Renaissance. With their riches, the princes built large villas with elaborate gardens just outside Florence. Medici, Castello, and Petraia are a few of the early country estates built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Four hundred years later, most villas remained, although in need of repair. New money arrived in the Tuscan hills as expatriate Englishmen busied themselves renewing and creating magnificent gardens such as Gamberaia, La Pietra, I Tatti and Le Balze. Learn the history of Renaissance garden making and how it was interpreted by English gardeners of the early 20th century.

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.

One of the easiest ways to explore the full range of the ICAA's video offerings, from educational courses to public programs and lectures, and from episodes of In Your Neighborhood to documentary films, is on the classicist.org YouTube channel. In 2021, traffic to the ICAA's YouTube channel has increased dramatically, with daily views numbering in the thousands, as the platform offers one of the most convenient ways to dive into the ICAA's deep archive of films, short videos, and recorded lectures and courses.

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

One of the largest private collections of architectural drawings and related artifacts was quietly assembled over thirty years by American investor and philanthropist Peter May, a client of ICAA board members Bunny Williams and Mark Ferguson. The collection has now been published in a stunning two-volume catalogue with innovative texts by leading authorities.

Please join the ICAA on Tuesday, June 8 for a virtual conversation with Peter W. May, architecture buff and collector, and Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, curator of the New-York Historical Society exhibition, The Art of Architecture: Beaux-Arts Drawings from the Peter May Collection, and co-author of Living with Architecture as Art: The Peter W. May Collection Architectural Drawings, Models and Artefacts (2021). This lecture will be moderated by Mark Ferguson, founding partner, Ferguson & Shamamian Architects and Dean of the School of Architecture, Catholic University.

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.

Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education courses: Uberto Construction.

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

Regional Classicism: Cosmopolitan and Local

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

Scholars of classical design in the Chesapeake have tended to focus on a handful of buildings with identifiable English pattern-book sources. But a fuller picture of the region’s architecture emerges from a consideration of the ways in which a distinctively local approach to classical design developed in the eighteenth century, one that enabled people to understand that a cyma backhand on a one-room house and the full entablature at Christ Church, Lancaster County were both part of a broadly intelligible language of design.

This presentation explores the distinctive regional idiom of classical architecture that emerged in the colonial Chesapeake, outlining its derivation from English sources and its relationship to local social life.

1 AIA CES Learning Unit|HSW and 1 credit towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture for each individual course session

Participants may enroll in any number of the courses; there is a discount for signing up for all three programs together.

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

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.

Paul Brant Williger, Architect - Woodside Residence

Michael Burch Architects - French Ranch

Michael Burch Architects - Carolwood

Tucker & Marks - Contemporary Classic

BAMO, Inc. - Four Seasons Hotel Madrid

The Wiseman Group Interior Design, Inc. - Palo Alto Residence

Madeline Stuart Associates - Hispano Moresque

Tucker & Marks - Beaux Arts Residence

CoorItalia - Classical Greek Roof Tiles

Zepsa Industries - Pacific Coast Residence

Stancil Studios, Inc. - Restored Spanish Revival

Joshua Greene - The Evangelizing Temple

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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).

The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2021.

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 Jacques Benedict Awards is June 4, 2021.

The Call for Entries for the 2021 John Russell Pope Awards has been extended to June 4, 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 11, 2021 and the late submission deadline at a higher entry fee is June 18, 2021.

The student/emerging professional deadline is June 18, 2021.

Chicago-Midwest Chapter

Northwest Chapter

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.