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ARTICLES & VIDEOS: NEW THIS ISSUE

Each year, the ICAA National Office holds the Summer Studio in Classical Architecture, a four-week immersive program that introduces a cohort of university-level students to the core tenets of classical design. Students divide their time between the design studio and New York City itself, using the city as a 'living laboratory' for measured and analytical drawing; the relationship of the city's architecture to principles of urbanism; and more. Alongside these studies, students have the opportunity to meet emerging professional mentors and instructors, as well as visit classical design firms based in New York.

At the start of June, sixteen practicing architects and students from around the globe traveled to Edinburgh to attend this year's Christopher H. Browne Drawing Tour, the first iteration of the program to be held in the city. For seven days, the group explored Edinburgh’s 18th- and 19th-century architecture through drawing, spending mornings tucked into the corners of William Playfair’s Library at The University of Edinburgh’s Old College with sketchbooks in hand, afternoons measuring the scrolls and columns at Thomas Hamilton’s Dean Gallery, and evenings watercoloring the brilliant sunset over Calton Hill.

Under the instruction of George Saumarez Smith, assisted by Martin Burns, this group produced hundreds of sketches, wash renderings, and drawings in situ to create a visually-stunning record of the city’s neoclassical architectural treasures.

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 and the 2022 winner of the Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition, 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.

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The ICAA is pleased to announce that a new streamlined video section has been added to classicist.org, making our substantial library of videos—including continuing education courses, public programs and lectures, documentaries, miniseries, and much more—available to browse, search, and sort more easily than ever before.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Orville Gordon Browne Foundation, the ICAA has been able to produce a substantial library of video offerings, enabling us to reach students, practitioners, and enthusiasts around the globe.

Now it is easier than ever to browse this continually growing library and to explore video categories including educational films like Calder Loth's "Foundations of Classical Architecture" series, documentary films like the "Design in Mind" and "Classical City Guide" series, public programs and lectures like the McKim Lecture featuring Ben Pentreath or the ICAA's profile of African American architect Julian Abele, and original miniseries like "In Your Neighborhood," "ICAA Influencers," and "ICAA Travel Revisited," among other highlights.

What began as a conversation about the city of Atlanta quickly evolved into a discussion on American urbanism and city planning. In this episode of our mini-series Cities We Live In, hosts Kellen Krause, Rodrigo Bollat Montenegro, and Anthony Catania speak to Paul Knight, an urban and architectural designer at Historical Concepts and the Executive Director at the nonprofit Douglas C. Allen Institute for the Study of Cities. Paul kicks off the discussion by posing the question first asked by professor Doug Allen to his seminar students at Georgia Tech: "How did we arrive here, at the corner of 5th Street and West Peachtree in Atlanta?"

Cities We Live In is a study of what makes our favorite cities stand out, and in doing so conveying a need for a return to traditional design principles which make them so beloved. Not simply a history of urban form, Cities We Live In teaches us why good places matter.

Classicism in Conversation features discussions by architects, urbanists, city planners, designers, and craftspeople about the relevance of the classical tradition in today's modern world. See all episodes of Classicism in Conversation.

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Led by Mark Donnelly, a noted expert on Irish decorative arts and antiques, this tour will feature visits to some of the area's finest estates, as well as stays at the privately owned Ballywalter Park, an Italianate Palazzo built in 1846 and now the family home of Lord Dunleath, and the privately-owned Belle Isle Castle, home of Lord Nicholas Hamilton.

This excursion, which will include a stay at the world-renowned Ballyfirn, will be led by Robert O'Byrne, one of Ireland's best-known writers on architecture and design as well as a Board Member of the Irish Georgian Society. During the course of the program, participants will experience private lunches and dinners at beautiful homes while enjoying the splendor of the Irish countryside.

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