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The Forum the NEWSLETTER of the INSTITUTE of CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & CLASSICAL AMERICA the forum THE NEWSLETTER OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & CLASSICAL AMERICA SPRING/SUMMER 2011 winterim a success ~ an interview with ray gindroz the 2011 arthur ross awards ~ book reviews ~ calendar of events message from the ica&ca 1 2011 Winterim a Success ON JANUARy 4, 2011, The assignment served to anchor and guide THE INSTITUTE WELCOMEd THIR- the students over the course of the Intensive, TEEN ExCEPTIONALLy TALENTEd complemented and informed by our core ANd dEdICATEd STUdENTS from six curriculum: The Elements of Classical Architecture, IT IS WITH GREAT JOy ANd states for the Winterim 2011 Professional Architectural Rendering in Wash, Observational OPTIMISM THAT WE REPORT A Intensive. Among them were students from the drawing, Linear Perspective, Theory of Propor- Northern California Chapter, Rocky Mountain tion, and The Literature and Theory of Classical HIGHLy SUCCESSFUL, GROUNd- Chapter, the Florida Chapter, as well as the Architecture, which were taught by ICA&CA BREAkING ExPERIENCE FOR President of the Philadelphia Chapter, Barbara instructors Marty Brandwein, Andy Taylor, Eberlein. An architecture student from Hampton Patrick Connors, Steve Bass, and Marvin Clawson ALL INVOLVEd WITH THE University in Virginia, James Ford III, was the respectively. recent WINTERIM PROGRAM, winner of the 2010 Hampton University Schol- In order to grasp the historical significance THE ICA&CA PROFESSIONAL arship, which, through the generosity of the of the project, as well as to get a sense of the Marilyn and Ray Gindroz Foundation, sends a actual place, the first studio session was a walking Intensive THAT TOOk PLACE fourth-year architecture student to the Winterim tour led by Instructors Richard Cameron and in JANUARy. SPEAkING FOR Professional Intensive each year. Also in Michael djordjevtich of Lower Manhattan, attendance were two practicing architects from which ended in Federal Hall. Once there, the stu- THE STAFF, WE ENJOyEd SO the Southern California Chapter, domiane Forte dents sketched the rotunda, made measurements, MUCH THE INTELLECTUAL AC- and Carolina Chacon Allen, both winners of and gathered inspiration for the work ahead. the I-Grace and ICA&CA Southern California For the next nine days, the students were TIVITy BROUGHT TO BEAR By Chapter Scholarship. sitting at their desks, hard at work on their projects THE STUdENTS ANd OUR Happily, we were able to host the students utilizing the skills from all their courses. The INSIGHTFUL INSTRUCTORS. in our newly renovated classroom for a total of work they produced was impressive, especially ten days, as opposed to the seven-day Intensive under such time constraints. January 15 marked as previously offered. The extended period of the end of a successful Winterim Intensive with a —PaulGunther,President the Intensive, along with the developments jury of invited guests awarding three prizes and Reilly. of the curriculum, served to inspire the students two honorable mentions for student designs. Nora to create ambitious designs, and produce some For information about ongoing CE by truly remarkable work. Education, Intensives, the Rome drawing Tour, Photo This year the curriculum included a design and the new full-time program in classical archi- Studio taught by Richard Cameron and Michael tecture, please visit www.classicist.org or email critique. djordjevtich, which focused on a sketch problem [email protected]. final to create a hypothetical shrine for the stone upon the which George Washington stood when sworn —NoraReilly,EducationProgramsCoordinator during in as the first President of the United States. Forte Currently, the stone stands upright, cordoned off by some rope, in a corner of Federal Hall Domiane in Lower Manhattan. This was the assignment that met the stu- student dents on their first evening here at Orientation: Winterim AShrineFortheThresholdofthePresidentoftheUnitedStates 2011 Program:AttheentrancetotherotundainFederalHallin by Lower Manhattan is proposed a design for an aedicular work shrineintheformofabaldachintohousethepavingstone of uponwhichGeorgeWashingtontooktheOathofofficeas thefirstPresidentoftheUnitedStatesonthemorningof Presentation Thursday,April30,1789. 2 ica&ca interview spring 11 3 PG:ItsoundslikeanICA&CAmembertourofYork, PG: What other educational pursuits are you involved ICA&CA Interview with Ray Gindroz PAiscalledforsoon! withtoday? RG: Indeed and when you go, take stock of one RG: A key part of my training was time spent of our most dramatic uses of traditional vocabu- in Europe, especially France and Italy. In the laries with the remodeling of barracks-like early 1960s I conducted research on how people buildings in a distressed Public Housing Project. perceive their environments by surveying a small By providing porches and windows that reflected town east of Rome. This first-hand experience the Colonial Revival style of adjacent neighbor- was life-changing and shaped my work and the hoods, it was transformed into a neighborhood lessons I seek to impart. It was, for example, with a profoundly positive impact on the lives of the basis of my urban design teaching at yale’s ICA&CA PRESIdENT Paul Gunther residents. This led to our designing many of the Graduate School of Architecture between 1968 sat down recently with globetrotting trustee, HOPE VI programs around the country—in and 1988. It also led to my founding of the Seaside Ray Gindroz, to ask him about his visionary part with the practice of traditional architectural Pienza Institute as a regular offering of the career as planner at the firm he co-founded in vocabularies—that transformed inner city low Seaside Institute, where I am now board chair. Pittsburgh, Urban design Associates (UdA), income projects into mixed income neighborhoods. To assure such experiences for the next and his service on the Institute board since 2004. despite what was then a radical rediscovery of generation of architects, my pianist wife and past lessons, the new design standards were I have established the Marilyn and Ray Gindroz Paul Gunther: When did you first learn about the working. UdA’s projects across the country Foundation. Every year, we support study ICA&CAandwhatwereyourearlyimpressions? include those in all manner of scale and purpose, abroad for a student of architecture or urbanism but a fundamental civic impulse continues to at Carnegie Mellon University, and a student Ray Gindroz: In the late 1990s, UdA completed guide the firm’s work. It’s why we are linked at Hampton University’s School of Architecture. the CelebrationPatternBook. Andrés duany was en- closely with the New Urbanism, for whose At Hampton, with the heroic efforts of faculty thusiastic about its potential as a textbook and Congress I have served as board chairman. A members Shannon Chance and Mason Andrews, suggested that I present it to the ICA. In his comprehensive planning kit from UdA called and the support of Robert Easer, Chair of the introduction, he called the CelebrationPatternBook LouisianaSpeaks followed katrina’s devastation. department, the selected third year student the best thing since Vitruvius, which of course spends three weeks drawing and collecting infor- made me very anxious before a group dedicated PG:OnceyouwereonboardwiththeInstitute,remindour mation for a design assignment back home the to teaching and sustaining the classical tradition. readersofhowyouhitthegroundrunning. following semester. Additionally, in 2010, the The warm reception impressed me greatly. dis- Foundation began collaborating with the cussions among architects are often constrained RG: My first effort was thePattern BookforNeigh- ICA&CA to provide lodging and tuition for a by unspoken differences, but with the ICA I borly Houses published by the Institute in Hampton student to be enrolled in the ICA&CA found a respectful consensus. collaboration with Habitat for Humanity and intensive Winterim program. On the student’s produced by UdA. Habitat had a problem con- return from the Intensive, he or she is required to RAY GINDROZ SKETCHING IN PARMA DURING THE 2009 vincing some affiliated communities to allow hold seminars with their classmates to share PG:Whatspawnedthiscatalyticpatternbook,whichledso HAMPTON UNIVERSITY STUDY PROGRAM IN ITALY. Photoby auspiciouslytoyourgovernancerolehere? DaveChancePhotography. construction of affordable houses. Tom Jones, what they have learned. (Seepage7formoreaboutthe then the director of Habitat’s Washington dC 2011WinterimHamptonscholar.) RG: The use of traditional architectural and more stable community. The challenge was to office said it best, “We know that 87% of Americans We support these programs directly through planning vocabularies as an essential part of an find ways of applying such traditions to new are comfortable with people who can only afford the charitable sale of my drawings and sketch- urbanism focused on social issues defines my construction at a time of isolated towers and a Habitat house living in their neighborhood, books. Our Web site explains it along with details career. We established UdA in 1964 at a time bland pastiche disconnected from the surround- but only if the house fits in. And that is where we of recent activity. Marilynandraygindrozfoundation.org of many broad social crossroads: Historic Pres- ing context and climate. sometimes fail.” The goal was therefore to pro- is the site address and I hope readers will visit soon. ervation, Civil Rights, and the Environment. vide tools for building correctly designed houses david Lewis,
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