Web Links
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America
New York, NY.
www.classicist.org
The leading American resource for new traditional design in architecture, urbanism and the allied arts. Of particular importance is the organization’s emphasis on the role of painting and sculpture in the embellishment of public and civic architecture. Created by the merger of its two namesake organizations, the new Institute has grown to be a national resource including academic and travel programs, lectures and tours, a variety of important publications (including the journal The Classicist and the Classical America Series in Art and Architecture) and the annual Arthur Ross Awards for excellence in the classical tradition. The Website includes a directory of professional members and the Classicist Bookshop, an online service for purchasing books and other media related to classical art and architecture. SeveralICA and CA chapters are in formation throughout theUnited States.ICA and CA offers a variety of classes in classical design, proportion, drawing the orders, rendering technique and drawing from plaster casts.
INTBAU: The International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture, and Urbanism
www.intbau.org
Under the sponsorship of The Prince of Wales, INTBAU is the leading online resource for information and exchange in the field. The Website provides news regarding current events relevant to the built environment, links to educational programs and publications, a directory of professionals in the various disciplines and other information drawn from a wide network of international correspondents.
School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana.
www.architecture.nd.edu
The only leading architecture school in which the undergraduate and graduate curricula are solidly rooted in classical architecture and urbanism. The School also administers the annual Richard Driehaus Prize and Henry Hope Reed medal awards programs, established to promote the classical tradition in architecture, urbanism and the allied arts.
School of Architecture, University of Miami
Miami, Florida
www.arc.miami.edu
Another leading architecture school with a curriculum based on traditional architecture and urbanism, including the classical tradition. The School, now occupying a new building designed by new-traditional architect Leon Krier, also sponsors theKnightCenter, an interdisciplinary program in community building.
The Prince’s Foundation
London, United Kingdom
www.princes-foundation.org
Sponsored by the Prince of Wales, this organization offers educational programs in architecture, urbanism and traditional building crafts, as well as community-based planning services and design charrettes to promote better growth of urban areas, largely in Great Britain.
Kartarxis
http://www.katarxis-publications.com/katarxis/
A provocative and informative Webzine edited by Lucien Steil dedicated to promoting new-traditional architecture and urbanism internationally.
Congress for the New Urbanism
www.cnu.org
The organization that has led the campaign to change the way we think about, plan and build cities and towns. While not committed to any style of architecture, the members tend toward new-traditional or vernacular architecture, since these are more suitable to the historically inspired and pedestrian-based town planning principles CNU promotes.
University of Virginia School of Architecture
Charlottesville, Virginia
www.arch.virginia.edu
The University of Virginia is home to one ofAmerica’s greatest architectural landmarks, Thomas Jefferson’sAcademicalVillage. This poignant space gave formal definition to the value of education in a young democratic nation. Today, though that nation has evolved, it is still striving to reach those early ambitions; the architecture defines that hopeful struggle. The intersection between the values of the public versus those of the private realm is evident here. This public space is dynamic and complex, as the culture itself, and its legacy is a tribute to the power of great design. At theSchool ofArchitecture at theUniversity ofVirginia we are poised to continue this legacy in our own time and in our own language.