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Villas constituted the largest and most novel part of Andrea Palladio’s practice as an architect. His working life coincided with a boom in agricultural investment in the Venetian mainland, and The Art Institute of Chicago’s Curator Bruce Boucher’s lecture will trace the development of Palladio’s ideas from simple, working farm houses to more ambitious projects reflecting the impact of classical architecture on his imagination. For more information, visit Summer Lecture Series.

Palladio’s remarkable achievement comes into sharper focus when one considers three of its distinctive intersections with the art of painting:What paintings were found in his buildings? How were his creations depicted by painters? And how have his principles informed painters working in Italy, Britain, France, America, and elsewhere? Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, asserts that Palladio’s legacy in this regard is generally one of continuity. His lecture will reveal surprising disjunctures, too. For more information, visit Summer Lecture Series.

Enjoy friendly competition and spirited play set against the backdrop of beautiful Central Park. Tee-off at 5:30 pm at the New York Croquet Club Courts in Central Park. The Courts are located on elevated fenced-in greens with a nearby “clubhouse” at the north boundary of “Sheep Meadow” in Central Park (also known as the Mineral Springs “Lawn Sports Center”) near the West 69th Street pedestrian entrance. Free to ICA&CA members, donors, and special guests; reservations are required. Sponsored by Ateliers Gohard, Foster Reeves Plaster, Les Metalliers Champenois, Merritt Woodworking, and Moberg Fireplaces.

The event will include 40 specially invited players competing to win a magnificent gilded mallet. Following this summer’s inaugural event, the prize mallet will be passed down each year to a new winner. If you are interested in playing, please contact Gerry Dolezar at gerry.dolezar@l-m-c.com or by phone at (212) 566-7777. RESERVE ONLINE TODAY or call the RESERVATION LINE at (212) 730-9646, extension 109.

In celebration of Palladio’s remarkable achievements as a gifted civic architect, the ICA&CA has assembled a unique collection of Palladian inspired works of art and architecture. Curated from work by Institute members, the exhibit consists of sketches, drawings, watercolors, and new projects, both built and un-built, demonstrating the breadth of Palladio’s continuous influence in the United States and abroad. It is the aim of the exhibition to show that there is still a great deal to be learned from Palladio and that perhaps the most relevant aspects of his influence remain to be discovered.

For additional information please visit: Italian Dressing: Palladio and American Classicism

Palladio was unquestionably the most influential architect in history; our understanding of his work is often seen through the architecture of his followers, from the contemporaneous, right down to those of the last century. This history has imbued Palladio’s architecture with qualities and perceptions which he did not intend; because of this the true nature of his genius has been clouded. Richard F. Sammons’s lecture will retrace Palladio’s design methodology: his use and understanding of proportion, and the competing influences of both the Antique and the Venetian Building Tradition. In addition, the lecture will consider how the vernacular has informed the various periods of Palladianism throughout history and in its application in diverse regions of the world. For more information, visit Summer Lecture Series.

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Exclusive reception for ICA&CA members at the Corporate Friend, Sponsor, Patron, and Benefactor levels and above. By invitation only. The reception begins at 6 pm in New York City. For information, please call Sara Durkacs at (212) 730-9646, extension 106.

Join the ICA&CA and Paul Wentworh Engel, architectural designer and preservationist, for a tour of Harkness House, One East 75th Street at the corner of Fifth Avenue. Harkness House, home of Edward and Mary Harkness, was designed by James Gamble Rogers between 1906 and 1908 in the style of a restrained Italian palazzo. Virtually unchanged since 1908, the interiors include French and Italian Renaissance rooms organized around a unique floor plan influenced by an unusual corner lot. One of a few family¬owned houses of its period, it is maintained impeccably by the Harkness family’s foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, to whom the house was bequeathed in 1952. For more information, visit Discover Classical New York.

Sorry, as of June 7, 2008, this tour is sold out.

The villas that the sixteenth century architect, Andrea Palladio, designed around Vicenza were masterpieces of inventiveness. David Garrard Lowe’s illustrated lecture will reveal how the villas, among them Poiano, Cornaro, and Pisani, revolutionized domestic architecture and were the genesis of the classical house. For more information, visit Member Events.

Join the ICA&CA and Jeff Richman, Green-Wood Cemetery’s historian, for an architectural walk and trolley ride. Green-Wood, founded in 1838, is a 478-acre oasis of 19th century architecture, trees, lawn, gardens, and sculpture—is the final resting place of many famous architects, including Richard M. Upjohn, John McComb, Griffith Thomas, John Kellum, and Leopold Eidlitz. Its permanent residents include Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Horace Greeley, and Samuel Morse. In 2006, Green-Wood Cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark, one of only five cemeteries in America that have received this honor. The tour will include several easy walks, in which you will enjoy mausoleums, the brownstone front gates (described by Robert A.M. Stern as the finest example of high Victorian design in America), the Catacombs, the Historic Chapel by Warren and Wetmore, and more. Meet at the main gates of the Cemetery, inside the entrance at 25th Street and 5th Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn at 12:45 pm; the tour begins at 1:00 pm sharp.

Admission is $10 for Members of the ICA&CA and employees of professional members firms; $20 for the general public. To reserve, please call (212) 730-9646, ext. 106 or sd@classicist.org.