Curated Summer Videos

The WMA Chapter of the ICAA has curated a selection of videos from the ICAA national website for your summer enjoyment:

Greek Classicism: Ancient Greek ruins have inspired forms and details of architectural works in numerous countries from the 18th century to the present. Greek classicism is yet a potent design resource and can enrich today’s classical and traditional architecture.

• Greek Classicism: A Design Resource for Historic and Contemporary Architecture, Part II, with Calder Loth – Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (classicist.org)

Challenges to Neoclassicism: In the late 1820s the consensus of the architectural excellence of an immutable classicism, based on the models of ancient Greece and Rome, was challenged in a series of theoretic disputes that pitted generation against generation.

• Romantic Revolt: Challenges to Neoclassicism and the Birth of the Avant Garde in France and Germany c. 1830, with Barry Bergdoll – Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (classicist.org)

Regional Classicism: An exploration of the distinctive regional idiom of classical architecture that emerged in the colonial Chesapeake, outlining its derivation from English sources and its relationship to local social life.

• Regional Classicism: Cosmopolitan and Local in the Colonial Chesapeake with Jeffrey Klee – Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (classicist.org)