Untermyer Gardens: Rediscovering America’s Greatest Forgotten GardenRegister Now!

Thursday, May 24; Reception at 6:30 PM; Lecture at 7:00 PM

Sponsored by Clark Construction Corporation and Hilton-VanderHorn Architects

Untermyer Gardens were among the most celebrated gardens in America before Samuel Untermyer’s death in 1940. Designed by Welles Bosworth in 1912 for Samuel Untermyer, a Jewish-American civic leader, lawyer and self-made millionaire, the gardens sprawled over 150 acres overlooking the Hudson River, maintained by 60 gardeners and supplied by 60 greenhouses. It was open to the public on a weekly basis during the 1920s and ’30s. 30,000 people visited it in one day in 1939. A core part of the gardens was acquired by the City of Yonkers in 1946. In the 1990s, another parcel was acquired, bringing the total today to around 43 acres. While the core is intact, much of the gardens are in ruin. Commonly referred to as the “Greek gardens” they are actually of Persian design. The cooperation of the Yonkers Parks Department with input from Marco Polo Stufano, Founding Director of Horticulture at Wave Hill, will ensure that Untermyer Gardens once again dazzles the garden-loving public with its brilliant design.

Stephen F. Byrns, Chairman of the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, architect and preservationist, joins us for a detailed look into the story of Untermyer and its resonance for the future.

Location: Library at the General Society, 20 West 44th Street. Space is limited and reservations are required. To reserve call the ICAA reservations line: (212) 730-9646, ext. 109 or register online.

Cost/Learning Unit: FREE for ICAA members and employees of professional members firms; FREE for full-time students with current ID; $20 for the general public.

Discover Classical New York: Tour of Untermyer GardensRegister Now!

Saturday, May 26, 2012; 1:30 pm

Sponsored by Hilton-VanderHorn Architects

Join Stephen F. Byrns, Chairman of the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, architect, and preservationist, for a tour of the celebrated Yonkers gardens.

Location: Participants will meet at 1:30 pm under the Yonkers, Metro North Railroad Train station directly across from the Saw Mill River. A car service will take us to Untermyer about 1 mile away. Please bring cash of about $5 per person to accommodate the fare.

Take Metro North Hudson line trains leaving on Saturday, May 26, at 12:08 pm, 12:20 pm, and 1:00 pm. The trip is about 30 minutes. Purchase tickets before boarding as on board fares are more expensive. There are many restaurants in the downtown Yonkers area if participants would like to arrive early and have lunch before the tour.

Untermyer Gardens is located at 945 North Broadway in Yonkers. Participants meeting the group at the park should use the main entrance. The main entrance is on North Broadway in Yonkers, just south of St. John’s Hospital. From the Saw Mill Parkway, exit 9 at Executive Boulevard, and go up the hill to North Broadway, and make a left. The garden is about 1/2 mile away on the right after the hospital, just before the 3rd light. There is a small Untermyer sign. There is a small parking lot.

Space is limited and reservations are required. To reserve, call the ICAA reservations line; (212) 730-9646, ext. 109 or register online.

Cost/Continuing Education Hours: FREE for ICAA Members and employees of Professional Member Firms as well as students with current identification; $20 for the general public; 1 AIA/CES CEH available.

Utah Chapter: Historic Home Tour in Spring City, Utah

May 26, 2012

The Heritage Day Celebration in Spring City, Utah is an annual event which includes a tour of many of the town’s charming pioneer era homes and buildings. This year all of the homes open to the public are on Main Street.*

The ICAA event will begin at the home of Dave Ericson, a local art dealer and historian. The address for Dave’s home is 12 East 300 South. He will provide a short lecture and private tour of a few locations not open to the public. You will then be free for the remainder of the day to tour the homes and artist studios open to the public. The day will end with a catered dinner for ICAA attendees and event organizers at 6:00 pm in the Anderson Barn located at 400 South 100 West.

Cost/Reservations: $25 for ICAA members and employees of professional member firms. $40 for the general public. This includes the private lecture and catered dinner. Limited Spaces.

R.S.V.P. to DeAnn Sadleir (801) 915-4848. Reservations confirmed with check mailed to:
ICAA Utah Chapter
109 East South Temple #2G
Salt Lake City, UT 84111

*Each participant will need to purchase their own tickets for the public tour for $10 at the Old Spring City School and the Old FIrehouse starting at 9:00 am. These funds benefit preservation and restoration efforts in Spring City.

A pancake breakfast is offered beginning at 7:00 am behind the Old School House. Lunch is available in the same location. Proceeds go to the youth providing the meals.

Participants may choose to travel to Spring City arriving Friday night. We suggest that you make lodging reservations as soon as possible. http://sanpete.com/pages/lodging.

Discover Classical New York: Jackson Heights Walking TourRegister Now!

Saturday, June 2, 2012; Time and Meeting Place TBA

Jackson Heights is located in the Northwest portion of the borough of Queens. The community is considered to be one of the first “garden city communities” built in the United States as part of the international garden city movement at the turn of the 20th century. Designed by Edward A. MacDougall’s Queensboro Corporation beginning about 1916, the area, roughly from 93rd Street through 69th Street between Northern Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue is mostly private residences and co-op buildings surrounding private “gardens” that are usually only for residents belonging to the co-ops and buildings on their perimeter. The area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Join architectural historian and scholar, Francis Morrone, and the ICAA for a walking tour to learn more about the history of this innovative, historic community.

Space is limited and reservations are required. To reserve, call the ICAA reservations line; (212) 730-9646, ext. 109 or register online.

Cost/Continuing Education Hours: Free for ICAA Members and employees of Professional Member Firms as well as students with current identification; $20 for the general public; 1 AIA/CES CEH available.

2012 Summer Lecture Series, Lecture I: 300 Years of Carved Lettering: John Benson, Master LapidaristRegister Now!

June 6, 2012; 6:00 pm Reception; 6:30 pm Lecture

300 Years of Carved Lettering

A four-part public lecture series sponsored by Flower Construction and the New York School of Interior Design.

John Benson’s career spans more than 40 years since beginning studies at the age of fifteen with his father, also a master lapidarist. Mr. Benson joins us to share the history of stone carving, especially lettering, a practice known as Lapidary, and the skill, knowledge, and tools needed to execute this art. Mr. Benson’s hand has graced many important places in our country including the John F. Kennedy memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, DC, and the date stones of the Vietnam Memorial. John also designed and carved the gravestones for Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and George Balanchine, along with many architectural applications such as at The National Gallery of Art.

On the twentieth anniversary of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s founding and the tenth anniversary of its merger with Classical America as a celebration of excellence in applied arts, the 2012 Summer Lecture Series, Descendants of Daedalus: Masters of Artisanship in the 21st Century, focuses attention on exemplary masters of wood, plaster, and stone artisanship. The Series’ intent is to assert recognition of the legacy of Daedalus in the contemporary building arts and the possibilities for sustaining it ahead.

Location: New York School of Interior Design, 170 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 (between Lexington and Third Avenues). Paid reservations required (212) 730-9646, ext. 109.

Cost/ Continuing Education Hours: FREE to ICAA Members and employees of Professional Member Firms as well as students with current identification; $20 general admission; $75 for the full series; 1 AIA/CES CEH available.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

2012 Summer Lecture Series, Lecture II: David Esterly, Master Wood CarverRegister Now!

June 13, 2012; 6:00 pm Reception; 6:30 pm Lecture

Grinling Gibbons and the CNC Machine: Woodcarving in Today’s Interiors

A four-part public lecture series sponsored by Flower Construction and the New York School of Interior Design.

Hand-carved architectural enrichment is increasingly being displaced by work done by Computed Numerical Control (CNC) machine tools. What are the visual implications of this? Where does this leave the grander high-relief styles of woodcarving? David Esterly will explore some of these questions, drawing partly from his upcoming book The Lost Carving: a Journey to the Heart of Making.

On the twentieth anniversary of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s founding and the tenth anniversary of its merger with Classical America as a celebration of excellence in applied arts, the 2012 Summer Lecture Series, Descendants of Daedalus: Masters of Artisanship in the 21st Century focuses attention on exemplary masters of wood, plaster, and stone artisanship. The Series’ intent is to assert recognition of the legacy of Daedalus in the contemporary building arts and the possibilities for sustaining it ahead.

Location: New York School of Interior Design, 170 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 (between Lexington and Third Avenues). Paid reservations required (212) 730-9646, ext. 109.

Cost/ Continuing Education Hours: FREE to ICAA Members and employees of Professional Member Firms as well as students with current identification; $20 general admission; $75 for the full series; 1 AIA/CES CEH available.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

2012 Summer Lecture Series, Lecture III: David Flaharty, Sculptor, Master of Ornamental Plaster Register Now!

June 20, 2012; 6:00 pm Reception; 6:30 pm Lecture

Philadelphia’s Portico Row: Vestibule Ceiling Medallion Remanufacture

A four-part public lecture series sponsored by Flower Construction and the New York School of Interior Design.

David Flaharty presents an illustrated talk about the process involved in remanufacturing a Thomas U. Walter c.1830 plaster ceiling medallion. The original has been carefully restored and installed in its original home on Portico Row in Philadelphia, however, one can see this beautiful work in plaster at the American Wing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a few other special hiding places David will share with us.

On the twentieth anniversary of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s founding and the tenth anniversary of its merger with Classical America as a celebration of excellence in applied arts, the 2012 Summer Lecture Series, Descendants of Daedalus: Masters of Artisanship in the 21st Century, focuses attention on exemplary masters of wood, plaster, and stone artisanship. The Series’ intent is to assert recognition of the legacy of Daedalus in the contemporary building arts and the possibilities for sustaining it ahead.

Location: New York School of Interior Design, 170 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 (between Lexington and Third Avenues). Paid reservations required (212) 730-9646, ext. 109.

Cost/ Continuing Education Hours: FREE to ICAA Members and employees of Professional Member Firms as well as students with current identification; $20 general admission; $75 for the full series; 1 AIA/CES CEH available.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Northern California Chapter: Reception, Panel Discussion & Booksigning: An American Palace: Chicago’s Samuel M. Nickerson’s House

June 25, 2012; 6:00-8:00 pm

In honor of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum’s new book, An American Palace: Chicago’s Samuel M. Nickerson’s House

Panelists:
Ulysses Dietz Grant—Senior Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts, Newark Museum
Paul Gunther—President, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art
Amy Lippert—Assistant Professor of American History, University of Chicago
Moderated by: Lise Dubé-Scherr—Director, The Richard H. Driehaus Museum;

Location: Arader Galleries, 435 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 9411. There is no charge for this event. Books are available for purchase and light refreshments will be served.

2012 Summer Lecture Series, Lecture IV: Panel Discussion “Collaborations and Applications of Artisanal work on the job-site” with Fairfax & Sammons ArchitectsRegister Now!

June 27, 2012; 6:00 pm Reception; 6:30 pm Lecture

Reimagining Maurice Fatio’s Masterpiece, Il Palmetto, a panel discussion

A four-part public lecture series sponsored by Flower Construction and the New York School of Interior Design.

Lecture sponsored by Peter Cosola, Inc.

Clem Labine, Period Homes and Traditional Building Magazine Editor Emeritus, and Richard Sammons and Richard Dragisic of Fairfax & Sammons Architects join us for an illustrated panel discussion along with Aiden Mortimer of Symm & Co., responsible for the stone and millwork restoration, remanufacturing and installation at one of Maurice Fatio’s grandest estates ever built, the 40,000 sq ft, II Palmetto in Palm Beach Florida. The panel will share the process of collaborating to restore and replace the stone and millwork at the estate and how this was accomplished.

On the twentieth anniversary of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s founding and the tenth anniversary of its merger with Classical America as a celebration of excellence in applied arts, the 2012 Summer Lecture Series, Descendants of Daedalus: Masters of Artisanship in the 21st Century, focuses attention on exemplary masters of wood, plaster, and stone artisanship. The Series’ intent is to assert recognition of the legacy of Daedalus in the contemporary building arts and the possibilities for sustaining it ahead.

Location: New York School of Interior Design, 170 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 (between Lexington and Third Avenues). Paid reservations required (212) 730-9646, ext. 109.

Cost/ Continuing Education Hours: FREE to ICAA Members and employees of Professional Member Firms as well as students with current identification; $20 general admission; $75 for the full series; 1 AIA/CES CEH available.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Beaux-Arts Atelier Capstone ExhibitionRegister Now!

Thursday, June, 28; 6:00-8:00pm

Join us in celebrating the culmination of the overwhelming success of the inaugural year of the Beaux-Arts Atelier. The exhibition will consist of student work from throughout the year, including sketches and paintings from their final term in Rome.

Location:
Institute of Classical Architecture & Art
20 W 44th St 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10036

Rocky Mountain Chapter: Theory of Proportion with Steve Bass

July 13, 2012; 6:00-8:30 pm; July 14, 2012; 10:00 am-4:30 pm

New York architect Steve Bass, ICAA Fellow, teaches that Proportion, in the classical arts, refers to the use of number and geometry as design tools. Theory of Proportion provides an overview of the concept and application of proportion in traditional architecture. The subject is approached from a Pythagorean and Platonic direction, including: an introduction to ancient numerical philosophy; an explanation of the concept of symbolic or qualitative number; the relation of number to beauty; the derivation of the ancient musical octave; the Golden Section, its mathematics, geometry, and particularly its role as geometrical “logos”; and the connection of these ideas to the numerical-geometrical canons of classical architecture. Historical methods of applying proportion to architectural composition, including geometrical construction, addition of arithmetical units and the use of harmonic ratios, are illustrated and demonstrated to create archetypal buildings.

Location: St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
2015 Glenarm Place, Denver, CO 80205

Cost/Reservations: $175 for ICAA members and employees of professional member firms. $200 for non-members and the general public. To R.S.V.P. contact Gail Breece at (303) 355-2460, ext. 206 or gail@dharchitecture.com. 8.5 AIA/CES CEHs available.

Northern California Chapter: San Francisco Fall Antiques Show Luncheon

October 27, 2012

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