Enduring Places: Traditional Architecture & Urbanism

with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

In November 2023, the ICAA hosted the national conference Enduring Places. For three days, 225 participants from around the country gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and engaged in a robust program of talks, panel discussions, working sessions, and tours focused on three themes: craftsmanship, preservation, and sustainability.

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 will illustrate this mutual reinforcement, and its adaptation to contemporary concerns of sustainability and resilience.

From April to June 2024, the ICAA will be releasing all of the recordings from Enduring Places. Parts I - VI are available now. Sign up for the ICAA's biweekly newsletter, World of Classicism, to be notified when other installments are released in the coming weeks.

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. She is co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream and The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. At DPZ, Plater-Zyberk has led and managed projects ranging from individual building design to new community design, community rebuilding, regional plans and zoning codes- -including Miami 21, the ground-breaking form-based code for the City of Miami, approved in 2010 and currently in use. Her work with partner Andrés Duany has been widely recognized by awards such as the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture and the APA National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice for Miami 21. With degrees from Princeton University and the Yale School of Architecture, Plater-Zyberk lectures frequently and has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States.

Sponsors

The ICAA is very grateful to John F.W. Rogers for generously making this program possible along with our supporters:

Classical American Homes Preservation Trust

Historic Charleston Foundation

Oliveri Millworks

Traditional Building

Schafer Buccellato Architects

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS

A Classical Studio, Inc.

Benedictine College

Gaston & Wyatt

Goodwin Classic Homes

Jared Goss

Historical Concepts

ICAA Northern California Chapter

Leeds Custom Design and Seabreeze Building

Anne Kriken Mann

John B. Murray & Elizabeth Brooke Murray

Poggenpohl

Reis Contracting

Skurman Architects

Peter J. Talty

Tucker & Marks

The Urban Electric Co.

Vallette & Russell Windham

LECTURE SPONSORS

Ankie & Fran Barnes

Stan Dixon

Marsha & David Dowler

Barbara Eberlein

Kirk Henckels

Jeff Allen Landscape Architecture, LLC

Anne Lazar

Marmi Stone

Suzanne R. Santry

Tammy Connor Interior Design

Urban Design Associates

Whitlock Builders

Bunny Williams

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Russell Windham, Chair

Ankie Barnes

Andrew Cogar

Richard Economakis

Ray Gindroz

Alexa Hampton

Thomas Lloyd

Michael Mesko

Eric Osth

Suzanne Santry

IN COLLABORATION WITH ICAA NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF

Peter Lyden, President

Caroline Slaten, Vice President, Development

Julia Sucher, Manager, Development & Special Events

Lexi Hoglund, Assistant, Development and Office of the President

Tags: enduring places, sustainability