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ARTICLES & VIDEOS: NEW THIS ISSUE

In this illustrated two-part lecture, architectural historian Calder Loth shows how ancient Greek ruins have inspired forms and details of architectural works in numerous countries from the 18th century to the present. Examples include buildings and structures in the United States, Britain, Greece, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Russia, and more. Greek classicism is yet a potent design resource and can enrich today's classical and traditional architecture.

Calder Loth is the retired senior architectural historian of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. He serves on the ICAA Council of Advisors and was the recipient of the 2010 ICAA Board of Directors Honor Award.

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

Architect and author Steve Bass presents Part III of his Constructive Geometry course, originally taught in-person at the ICAA but made available here in digital format for the first time.

This is the third part of a four-part course. In Part I viewers learn how to draw lines using constructive geometry, and in Part II viewers learn how to construct regular polygons. Part IV will be available soon.

In this session, viewers will work with various constructions including the heptagon, the ellipse, a cyma recta profile, and a torus profile.

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

The ICAA is honored to announce that Daria Szalinska is the winner of the third annual Bunny Mellon Garden Design Prize, recognizing work completed for Araiys Design Landscape Architecture. The runner up is Thomas Fraley of Gregory Lombardi Design.

As an Associate at Araiys Design Landscape Architecture, Daria Szalinska approached the project, “Meyers Pond Retreat,” with the objective of overcoming site-specific challenges, prioritizing sustainability, and achieving a sense of timeless elegance. In fact the challenges of the project prompted creative design solutions that led to the use of reclaimed granite planks and stone blocks, showcasing the project's commitment to both aesthetics and environmental responsibility. The project also incorporates many native species while minimizing concrete retaining walls, exemplified by the bioswale planted with switchgrass along the road.

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 Edmund D. Hollander Landscape Architecture Design, and Bunny Mellon Curricula Landscape Design Prize Co-Sponsor Harrison Design.

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In honor of his commitment to classical architecture, along with his contributions to preservation, urbanism and historiography, Peter Pennoyer has been named the recipient of the 2024 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. He will be awarded the prize during a ceremony on March 23 (Saturday) in Chicago.

In the 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

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New Heights, the ICAA's program for middle school students, which is hosted at schools throughout the country, is now in its ninth year in partnership with Marymount School of New York. In 2023's iteration of the program, New Heights IX: Conserving, Constructing, Creating, eighth-grade students dedicated an entire week to exploring the origins and evolution of New York's architecture in a series of hands-on activities, walking tours, and urban sketching sessions, culminating in a final project designing a structure in Central Park. Throughout the week, students particularly focused on the role that the architect plays in the construction of a building, and how those design decisions ultimately shape how a city's residents interact with their built environment.

As one of Marymount's eighth-grade students notes in the video above, "I learned more about the day-to-day life of an architect. I knew what an architect was, but learning how important they are for society and the changes they make behind the scenes was definitely such a great experience."

On September 27th, 2023, the ICAA was honored to host award-winning Southern architect and ICAA Board Member Stan Dixon in the most recent installment of the "Book Club" series. Stan spoke about his influences and his firm's projects highlighted in his debut book Home: The Residential Architecture of D. Stanley Dixon, published by Rizzoli.

Stan Dixon’s edited approach to the classical elements of architecture creates an understated aesthetic that is historically based while embracing influences of modern design. Through contextually sensitive work of appropriate style, scale, and proportion, he crafts buildings of permanence and delight, while providing their occupants with a beautiful place in which to live their lives. Dixon takes risks in blending genres and styles, with results that are creative and original.

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Martin Burns of Fairfax & Sammons Architects in New York has been selected as the winner of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s (ICAA) 2024 Rieger Graham Prize, and will participate in a three-month Classical Design Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, Burns has previously worked for Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, and has frequently served as a teaching assistant, lecturer, and instructor for ICAA Continuing Education Courses, Workshops, Intensives, and the Christopher H. Browne Drawing Tours.

Burns plans to dedicate his time in Rome to an exploration and study of its many “places of rest,” the benches, little fountains, alcoves, niches, and more that offer respite to the pedestrian explorer of the eternal city. Perhaps less noted than many of the grand architectural edifices of Rome, these small and tranquil oases help to define and enhance the humanistic urbanism that makes Rome so welcoming to those who wander on foot. Burns will study these sites through careful hand-done measured drawing, photographic documentation, and 3D scanning, noting their composition, design detail, and relationship to the larger built environment. Burns hopes to apply lessons from these studies to help improve walkable infrastructure in the United States. He plans on publishing his drawings.

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