Special thanks to: Reilly Architectural

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.

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of William H. “Bill” Harrison, who served from 2003 to 2018 on the ICAA’s Board of Directors, and was a founding member of the Southeast Chapter. Bill’s tireless devotion to the ICAA’s educational mission was reflected in his support of many initiatives, including Drawing Tours, the Education Forum, and the Bunny Mellon Landscape Design Prize.

ICAA President Peter Lyden reflects upon Bill's legacy at the ICAA, and the many ways in which he will be so deeply missed in a remembrance on classicist.org.

In 1924, Pasadena's urban planners held architectural competitions for the city's new civic center. Architect Arthur Brown submitted the winning design for the new city hall, following the Beaux-Arts design principles dedicated to fair, transparent, and inclusive government. Join architect Christian Arndt of the ICAA's Southern California Chapter and discover how, almost a hundred years later, this building still represents the city's distinctively Californian character, even by drawing from design cues across the world.

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Lead Sponsor of the In Your Neighborhood series: AE Greyson General Contractors

For architect Andrew Cogar, president of Historical Concepts, and renowned interior designer Steven Gambrel, the most successful collaborations are those that intentionally blur the lines between architecture and interior design until they become one seamless design process. After years of working together, they’ve achieved that goal, honing their partnership to express a common vision while creating homes that are inventive and original.

On April 7th, 2021, Cogar and Gambrel presented ICAA members with a special virtual event, in which they opened the doors to three incredible projects—each featured in the new Historical Concepts’ book Visions of Home—and walked viewers through a synergistic design process that incorporates regional precedents with client sensibilities to craft homes that honor history, style, and creativity. This event was moderated by Jacqueline Terrebonne, Editor in Chief of Galerie Magazine.

If you are interesting in purchasing this book, please visit the Rizzoli website here.

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education courses: Uberto Construction.

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.

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

Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects

Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

Please join interior designer Mark D. Sikes for a tour through his latest book, More Beautiful: All-American Decoration. Mark will reveal his sources of long-time inspiration and show a glimpse into his creative process. He shares his favorite rooms — all of which are light-filled and crisply patterned, chic yet comfortable, and just the way people want to live today. Finally, learn what is new and upcoming from this esteemed design firm.

Edith Wharton is well known among architects and designers for her first book, The Decoration of Houses, an enormously influential tract on interior design published in 1897. She was also, of course, one of America’s greatest novelists, and 2020 marked the one hundredth anniversary of her best-known novel, The Age of Innocence. In this lavishly illustrated talk we will explore the native Manhattanite’s home town from the time of her birth at 14 West 23rd Street in 1862 to her departure for France at the turn of the century, and the world of The Age of Innocence, set among New York’s insular upper class in the 1870s, a time of profound change in America, in New York, and in what constituted “society.” Not least, we will examine the intellectual and literary foundations of the American Renaissance in architecture and art.

Francis Morrone is an architectural historian and a writer, and the author of fourteen books, including, with Henry Hope Reed, The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (W.W. Norton, 2011) and architectural guidebooks to Philadelphia and to Brooklyn.

Contemporary Classical: Architecture, Urbanism and Craft in Florida and the Greater Caribbean

The ICAA Florida Chapter is pleased to announce the Call for Submissinos 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 Bulfinch Awards is May 3, 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

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.