June 26, 2024

This edition of Classicism at Home is dedicated to the ICAA's 2023 national conference, Enduring Places, which took place in Charleston, South Carolina and addressed topics of craftsmanship, preservation, and sustainability.

The ICAA is very grateful to John F.W. Rogers for generously making the Enduring Places conference possible along with our supporters The Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation, Historic Charleston Foundation, Oliveri Millworks, Traditional Building, and Schafer Buccellato Architects.

This edition of World of Classicism is sponsored by Haddonstone.

Affordable housing is one of the most significant challenges facing our cities and towns today. Once limited to gateway cities such as New York, San Francisco, and London, affordability is a challenge that faces nearly every American city and town. As we address these issues, it is essential to note that historic town-planning principles hold the secrets to success in solving the affordability crisis.

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Raymond L. Gindroz was a managing principal and Chairman of Urban Design Associates, an international practice in urban design and architecture. Under his leadership, the firm pioneered the development of participatory planning processes for neighborhoods, downtowns and regional plans. This included transforming inner-city neighborhoods and public housing projects into mixed income communities and working with downtowns to attract new development.

Hugh Petter joined ADAM Architecture as an Associate in 1993 and became a Director in 1997. Hugh is recognized worldwide for his residential portfolio, his master plans and new urban design, and commercial projects. Some current and recent projects are Nansledan, a major urban extension to Newquay for the Duchy of Cornwall and the new Levine Building at Trinity College in Oxford.

Construction of Charleston’s Gaillard Center began in the year 2012 and was complete by 2015. Designed by David M. Schwarz Architects of Washington, DC, this was an exceptionally complex project—combining a concert hall and large meeting rooms with municipal government offices, the massive structure rehabilitated an existing performance and convention center that had been unsympathetically dropped on an historic neighborhood in 1968. The new Gaillard Center brought healing to the fabric of Charleston by achieving several goals: softening the building’s impact on surrounding streets and open spaces, achieving a civic nobility of character, and adopting an eloquent ornamental program that valorizes the rich, diverse history of the site and the city at large. Beloved by the city’s citizens, the Gaillard Center has proven to be a beating heart of art and politics in Charleston, serving the public in ways that were even greater than initially imagined.

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Steve Knight is a Principal with David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc. He served as Project Architect for the design of Schermerhorn Symphony Center, The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, the Gaillard Center, and most recently an 8,000-seat amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama. He is currently leading the office’s team on the design of a neighborhood center for Chevy Chase Lake in Maryland and the multi-phase Residential College project at Vanderbilt University.

Michael T. Maher is the CEO of the WestEdge Foundation, Inc, the redevelopment entity that is building the WestEdge District. He is also an award-winning architect, city planner and educator. Prevoously Michael was the founding Director of the Charleston Civic Design Center and lead representative for the City of Charleston on the Gaillard Center Arts Precinct.

Nathaniel Robert Walker is an Associate Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture & Planning at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Nathaniel specializes in the history of urban form, public buildings, and shared spaces such as squares and streets, with a special focus on the ways in which people have used architecture to imagine and shape their dreams of a better world.

PUBLICATIONS: ICAA COMMUNITY & MEMBER FIRMS

Taking A Pen For A Walk

by Ray Gindroz, FAIA

The architect, educator, and renowned urban designer Ray Gindroz shares over two decades of experiences of place through drawing. Accompanied by concise yet charmingly anecdotal and informative commentary, this collection of over 500 travel sketches invites us to discover the hidden language that buildings speak, one deeply rooted in both history and the human experience.

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FILMS: ICAA COMMUNITY

2024 Arthur Ross Award winner Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil is one of the leading voices in contemporary Islamic architecture and a practitioner known worldwide for his use of traditional form and technique. Over the past four decades, Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil has built mosques, public buildings and private residences throughout the Middle East maintaining balance between continuance and change. His work celebrates the overall principles of Islamic architecture and culture while reflecting the regional character and locality in which each structure resides. Learn more about his practice in the documentary film Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil: Portrait of an Architect, originally commissioned as a part of the collateral project of the Qatar Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

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The ICAA’s mission of recovering a building design language and its craft has been reinforced by the parallel focus on traditional urban design of the New Urbanism. New Urban communities have provided a welcoming context for traditional architecture, extending its influence beyond the individual building to the creation of a sense of place. This presentation by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk illustrates this mutual reinforcement, and its adaptation to contemporary concerns of sustainability and resilience.

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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a founding principal of DPZ CoDesign, and the Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Miami where she directs the Master in Urban Design Program, after 18 years as dean of the School of Architecture. Plater-Zyberk is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, an organization established in 1993 to promote walkable, resilient urban design.

This panel, featuring Krupali Krusche, Peter Talty, and Stephen James, and moderated by Eric Osth, explores issues facing three contexts: an expanding metropolis, a town that is a victim of its success, and an agricultural context that will be overrun with sprawl. Each of these contexts has challenges, and this panel explores how traditional architecture and urbanism are impacting the evolution of places in a timeless fashion.

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Stephen James serves as Chief Visioning Officer for Larry H. Miller Real Estate, Eric Osth serves as Chairman and Principal-in-Charge on urban design and architecture projects at Urban Design Associates, Peter Talty is Vice President & Director of Properties at Belvedere Property Management, and Krupali Krusche is an Associate Professor and Director of DHARMA (Digital Historic Architectural Research and Material Analysis).

SEPTEMBER 4TH

AWARDS SUBMISSION

McKim, Mead & White Awards

National Office

SEPTEMBER 9TH

COMPETITION SUBMISSION

5th Bi-annual Chicago-Midwest ICAA Design Competition

Chicago-Midwest Chapter

JUNE 27

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Olmsted in Seattle

JULY 2

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Blue Pavilion: Authenticity, Fantasy, & Trickery: A Virtual Artist's Talk with Lucian Moriyama

JULY 12 -

JULY 13

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Drawing the Classical Garden: Field Drawing at Untermyer Gardens

JULY 21

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Walking Tour of Prospect Park's Lookout Hill

JULY 27 &

AUGUST 3

CONTINUING EDUCATION

The Elements of Classical Architecture: Introduction to the Corinthian Order, Parts I & II

DECEMBER 4

AWARD CEREMONIES

The 2024 McKim, Mead & White Awards