Calder as Muse

A message from our President, Paul Gunther

Every month since July 2010, our colleague and friend—recipient of the 2010 Board of Directors Honor—Calder Loth has penned and illustrated an essay relating to classicism that has become a lively addition to our Classicist blog. Besides the ICAA and its Beaux-Arts Atelier, several design instructors around the country rely on the monthly lessons he imparts with lively currency rooted in history. We hope you do too.

Calder’s online partner (and ICAA Chapter liaison) Kelly Price has posted them in the order below:

• THE ALBANO AND VIGNOLA MUTULARY DORIC ORDERS, February 2012
• THE DORIC OF THE BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN AND ITS VARIANTS, January 2012
• FLEMISH BOND: A HALLMARK OF TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE, December 2011
• THE GIBBS CHURCH: A PARADIGM FOR AMERICA, November 2011
• THE HEPHAISTEION AND ITS ADAPTATIONS, October 2011
• THE SCAMOZZI IONIC CAPITAL, September 2011
• THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH AS A DESIGN RESOURCE, August 2011
• CLASSIC ILLITERACY, July 2011
• BALUSTERS, June 2011
• TELAMONES AND ATLANTES, May 2011
• THE CORINTHIAN OF THE CHORAGIC MONUMENT OF LYSICRATES, April 2011
• THE CHORAGIC MONUMENT OF THRASYLLUS, March 2011
• THE GIBBS SURROUND, February 2011
• THE IONIC OF THE ERECHTHEUM, January 2011
• ROMAN LATTICE, December 2010
• TOWER OF THE WINDS ORDER, November 2010
• THE PATERA, October 2010
• THE BRACKETED CORNICE, September 2010
• THE BLOCK MODILLION, August 2010
• THE IONIC TEMPLE ON THE ILLISSUS, ATHENS, July 2010

Please take due advantage and follow them from now on if you are not yet doing so.

I am also pleased to announce today that in addition we will now be adding Calder’s renewed Friday Image post to the blog. These weekly images and summary observations (sometimes taken from Institute trips – more often from his own rigorous peregrinations, especially across every inch the Virginia Commonwealth) illuminate his encyclopedic architectural photography collections and related insights. It is a much-anticipated highlight of our TradArch ListServ and will now be brought to all through the blog. Comments are encouraged in inquisitive exchange. Above all, these posts are a joy to be shared among those who seek beauty and enduring truths in the built world. Join me please in commending this worthy contribution to our online content.

The blog in its entirety is a dynamic resource that we seek to nurture. We invite submissions. They should come to Kelly and me. While advocacy is on our minds, historical precedent, education, and news are paramount.