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The World of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½: May 2024

This month the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ launches the World of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, a month-by-month roundup of recent education news and a look ahead to upcoming programs. This edition highlights education activity from the Winter/Spring session - January through May 2024.

The Intensive in Classical Architecture, hosted annually at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ headquarters in New York City in January, marked the start of the 2024 ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Program. Nineteen instructors and teaching assistants led a cohort of twenty-two participants through the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s core curriculum subjects. In February, a full slate of programs included University Workshops in Classical Architecture, the launch of The Architecture of Place online panel series, an array of in-person and online Continuing ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ courses, and Youth Programs. Two University Workshops involved new collaborations with the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn and the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture in Atlanta. Youth Programs included visits by Jersey City Public Schools arts students to the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s Cast Hall to learn about observational and cast drawing, and a Grand Tour program in collaboration with FutureSense Challenges Abroad - a UK-based charity that works with disadvantaged communities. Continuing ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ courses in February provided opportunity to fulfill core Certificate in Classical Architecture requirements through the online version of the venerable ‘Introduction to the Elements of Classical Architecture’ series, and to expand upon this foundational knowledge through the latest addition to the ‘Advanced Elements of Classical Architecture: The Orders in Design’ series. The Architecture of Place - a joint endeavor of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, the King’s Foundation, and INTBAU - kicked off with a conversation with ‘Building Culture’ founder Austin Tunnell on structural masonry, sustainable urban planning, and community place-making.

In March, thanks to the efforts of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Chicago-Midwest Chapter, students from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Architecture School were able to participate in a University Workshop. The program took place on campus in the historic UIUC School of Architecture building designed by Charles A. Platt. The Architecture of Place series continued in conversation with Mamdouh Sakr of the King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in Cairo. Mamdouh discussed the study of traditional arts, craft and design in Egypt, and vernacular solutions to climate mitigation and regional topography. Continuing ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ offerings in March included new courses on Greek Classicism and additions to the ‘Case Studies in New Classical & Traditional Design’ series. The new Case Studies programs feature the work of recipients of the Gindroz Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing - Union Studio Architects of Providence, Rhode Island and Cearnal Collective and the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara. All are available for AIA HSW credits. Grand Tour programs continued in March with Holy Innocents School in Charleston, South Carolina. Students explored the city’s history by way of an interactive walking and sketching tour and visit to the American College of Building Arts to learn about building craft and the fabrication of architectural ornament.

In April, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ instructors returned to Utah Valley University Architecture and Engineering Design for the third University Workshop of the spring season. The program took place on the UVU campus in Provo and was the second collaboration with the emerging B.Arch. program which is rooted in design principles of classicism, vernacular and traditional building, and industry-based coursework. Continuing ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ programming in April featured courses that explored the relationship of Classical Architecture and Landscape. In New York, walking tours of Olmsted and Vaux’s Prospect Park continued through the ongoing series ‘The Civic Landscape,’ and a studio course investigated the architectural qualities and compositional techniques of the Italian Garden. April continued to be a busy month for Youth Programs as well, with a Grand Tour for Future Sense Challenges Abroad students in San Francisco. The program, hosted in conjunction with the Northern California Chapter at the Academy of Art University, explored how historical zoning and land use patterns in San Francisco have given shape to the city’s iconic regional architectural and urban form. On the east coast, the Washington-Mid-Atlantic chapter led a New Heights program for students at the Washington Latin Public Charter School. The Architecture of Place series concluded with a conversation with Joachim Tantau, a designer whose work merges contemporary design aesthetics with the timeless beauty of Sacred Geometry.

In May, the Continuing ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ ‘Art of Field Drawing’ series ventured into the world of gothic architecture with a course at Princeton University that examined the American Collegiate Gothic idiom in works by Ralph Adams Cram and Day and Klauder. In Southern California, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ instructors led the second University Workshop at UCLA Extension’s Architecture and Interior Design school. In the UK, eighteen participants traveled to England for a weeklong study of the architecture of Oxford through the Christopher H. Browne International Drawing Tour under the direction of George Samaurez Smith. New Heights programs continued in New York with students from the Mather Building Arts and Craftsmanship High School and the Browning School. Students explored the history of building craft and classical architecture in New York City, and the role architects play in giving physical form to communities.

Looking ahead, Summer Studio in Classical Architecture instructors will lead twenty students through this year’s four-week program which runs June 10 through July 6. The month of July will mark the launch of ‘Great Buildings,’ a new five-day program for university level students that explores the classical architecture of Washington DC. The program is being hosted at the Catholic University of America School of Architecture. An exhibition in the Cast Hall will feature the work of Lucian Moriyama in the historic decorative plaster technique of scagliola. The exhibit entitled Lapidary will be open to the public by appointment from June 27 through August 15. National programs will continue across the country in the fall with University Workshops at schools in Birmingham, Denver, and Fort Worth, the Regional Intensive in Classical Architecture in Newport in collaboration with the New England Chapter, and the Christopher H. Browne Drawing Tour in New Orleans.

Read more about recent education news and programs below and visit ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ for upcoming program details, dates and information on scholarships and registration.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ EDUCATION PROGRAM ALUMNI & INSTRUCTOR NEWS

• Martin Burns (ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ instructor; Christopher H. Browne Rome Drawing Tour, 2018 alumnus) is the recipient of the 2024 ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Rieger Graham Prize, a three-month affiliated fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
• Nathan Thomas (ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ instructor; MSU Workshop alumnus) received the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Southeast Chapter’s Kyle D. Taylor Memorial Fellowship for Architectural Studies.
• Jack Edwards (ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ instructor; SSCA, 2019 alumnus), Peyton Gable (Charleston Drawing Tour, 2020 alumna), Andres Martinez (SSCA, 2018 alumnus), and Ian Reilly (SSCA, 2019 alumnus) graduated in May from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture Graduate Program.
• Jheanelle Miller (ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ instructor; SSCA, 2018 alumna) received an MFA in Production Design in May from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
• Christopher Chung (SSCA, 2022 alumnus) received a BA in Architectural Studies, Minor in Art History from Tufts University in May and will matriculate into the Yale University School of Architecture.

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