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The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) presents The World of Classicism, a new biweekly newsletter presenting new original videos, articles, lectures, and courses, as well as selected offerings from the ICAA's rich online catalog. The ICAA is a nonprofit educational organization committed to promoting and preserving the practice, understanding, and appreciation of classical design.

ARTICLES & VIDEOS: NEW THIS ISSUE

Julian Abele was chief designer for Horace Trumbauer and the contributing designer of over 250 buildings including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Philadelphia's Free Library. Working decades before Civil Rights legislation, he overcame innumerable obstacles in a country gripped by segregation. Trained in the classical tradition at the University of Pennsylvania, Abele contributed to the design of Gilded Age mansions in Newport and New York, the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard, and much of the Duke University campus. Despite his incredible and prolific contributions, Abele was rarely publicly acknowledged for his work.

Hosted by designer and ICAA board member Barbara Eberlein, this new production features David Brownlee, architectural historian at the University of Pennsylvania, and Amy Cohen, great-grand niece of Abele’s longtime friend and collaborator Louis Magaziner, in a conversation that centralizes Abele in the history of classical tradition, a recognition long overdue.

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

In the new book, ROWDY MEADOW: House – Land – Art, Peter Pennoyer presents a visionary house designed and decorated by Peter Pennoyer Architects in Hunting Valley, Ohio, that will ultimately be bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Inspired by Czech Cubism – an ephemeral early twentieth century movement notable for its exploration of prismatic forms – it is a house of tremendous complexity ruled by a calm mastery of the language of this style.

In this installment of ICAA Book Club, Pennoyer offers an in-depth look at making of this ambitious house and property as he explores the complex relationships between its architecture, interior design, furnishings, and collections of decorative and contemporary art.

ICAA Book Club Presenting Sponsor: Foster Reeve Architectural & Ornamental Plaster

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

In the inaugural entry of the series ICAA Visits, ICAA Board Member Barbara Eberlein took us to Ardrossan, the historic estate on the Philadelphia Main Line designed by the firm of Horace Trumbauer, and the basis for the Broadway play and film The Philadelphia Story. Learn about the colorful personalities that occupied this home, and the challenges that were faced in restoring it after many years of neglect in this three part series.

ICAA NEWS: NATIONAL

Peter Lyden, the President of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), and Board Member Bunny Williams were honored to judge anonymous entries for the third straight year of VERANDA's Best in Outdoor Living Awards. The resulting selections include multiple ICAA Member Firms, and the feature can be found in the 2022 March/April issue, on newsstands now, and online.

Read the full article.

ARTICLES & VIDEOS: PREVIOUS ISSUE

On January 19, 2022, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) was proud to present the First Annual Michael Lykoudis Lecture: The Shared Building Traditions of the World, featuring award-winning architects and urban planners Nada Breitman-Jakov and Marc Breitman as the event's inaugural speakers. The lecture, open to ICAA Members only during its live stream, is now available to watch online in its entirety.

Nada Breitman-Jakov and Marc Breitman are Paris-based architects known for improving cities through quality architecture and urbanism. A native of Belgium, Nada Breitman-Jakov attended the L’École de la Cambre in Brussels, receiving degrees in both architecture and urban planning. In Paris, she received a degree at the Ecole de Chaillot for the preservation and restoration of historic buildings. Marc Breitman was born in Paris and received an architectural degree from the École des Beaux-Arts. Together, the two formed Breitman and Breitman, an architecture and urban planning studio in 1989.

Mark Ferguson, Jared Goss, Historical Concepts, Anne Kriken Mann, Peter Talty, Matthew and Joyce Walsh, and Russell Windham

Ankie Barnes, Bradford R. Houston Design Studio, Barbara Eberlein, Hart Howerton, Anne Lazar, John B. Murray, Mark Pledger, Ong-ard Satrabhandhu, and Bunny Williams

Robert Adam, David Dowler, HBRA Architects, Kirk Henckels, Michael Lykoudis, David Rau, Foster Reeve, Suzanne Tucker, and Paul Williger

NATIONAL CALENDAR: MULTI-DAY PROGRAMS

Scholarship application deadline: Monday, March 14th

Scholarship application deadline: Friday, March 4th

Summer Studio in Classical Architecture

Scholarship application deadline: Monday, March 21st

NATIONAL CALENDAR: CONTINUING EDUCATION

Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education: Uberto Construction

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

TODAY Wednesday, February 23rd

NATIONAL CALENDAR: AWARDS & PRIZES

The Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition - ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY

The ICAA is now accepting submissions for the Award for Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition, which recognizes exceptional talent exhibited by one young professional in classical and traditional architecture, landscape and interior design, building crafts, urban design and planning, or the allied arts. The Award is a collaboration between the ICAA, The Prince’s Foundation, and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), and is open to applicants from around the world. The application deadline for the 2022 Award is March 1st, 2022.

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.

NATIONAL CALENDAR: ICAA TRAVEL PROGRAMS

This exciting tour of Copenhagen, Denmark and beyond 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.

NATIONAL CALENDAR: ICAA CHAPTER ONLINE EVENTS

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