Welcome 2012

A message from our President, Paul Gunther

Happy 2012—a year that promises to be one of challenge tempered by constant and dynamic opportunity. We are so glad that you are alongside to forge the ICAA’s path whatever wider cultural and economic context is unfolding.

We hope you have received your copy of The Classicist No. 9 as is due you; copies are now available for sale on the web site along with all our Classical America Series in Art and Architecture books and related recommended resources in print, and, of course, increasingly online.  (We are delighted to relay the news from just yesterday that our friends at Dover Publications will soon reprint another sought-after ICAA title, Fences, Gates and Garden Houses: A Book of Designs and Measured Drawings by Carl Frederick Schmidt; soon it will join our Series roster.)  If you do not know how to access The Classicist online please refer to my December greeting or contact us directly about how to do so.  No 10 is in the works with a publication goal of year’s end.

The inaugural 2012 class of the Beaux-Arts Atelier resumes its studies this week as it catapults towards the May graduation.  Please recall that the application deadline for the Class of 2013 is March 1, 2012; again visit the web site or call Anne Lawson at (212) 730-9646, extension #108.  A print poster is available; it has been distributed to hundreds of academic programs and like-minded organizations. Along with Richard H. Driehaus, Taconic Builders, the Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation, the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, the Arthur Ross Foundation, and the Marilyn and Ray Gindroz Foundation, your membership dollars, along with annual fund support, directly allow the kinds of vital scholarship resources essential for Americans to pursue such study in the 21st century.

We are pending approval by the federal Department of Homeland Security to allow tuition-paying students from abroad to enroll at the BAA. Sadly we cannot control its approval timetable but we are, as always, endeavoring creatively to that hopeful end.

The just-completed (and always rigorous) Winterim Intensive session and its cast from across the country, thanks to the vital chapter network, describes another mainstay of the overall educational offerings. I salute them below:

Pablo Altieri, II:  Heralding from Puerto Rico, Dr. Altieri is a New York-based psychiatrist, who has enriched his passionate interest in contemporary classicism in both design and art.

Troy Barney: Mr. Barney is the 2012 recipient of the Hampton University Winterim Scholarship, funded by the Marilyn and Ray Gindroz Foundation. A fourth year student in Virginia, Mr. Barney joins the ranks of the growing number of Hampton students the ICAA has had the pleasure of welcoming.

Paul Estipona: A resident of Elmhurst, New York, Mr. Estipona is a Draftsman and Detailer at Towne House Restorations.  A civil engineer by degree, he intends to devote as much time as possible to further his studies of the classical tradition.

Jennifer Gibson: A graduate of Drexel University in Interior Design, Ms. Gibson works at Eberlein Design in Philadelphia. Chapter President, Barbara Eberlein, who participated in Winterim 2011, enthusiastically made her presence possible.

Bruce Lanier III: Mr. Lanier is Principal Architect at Standard Creative, Inc., located in Birmingham, AL.  He is a graduate of Auburn University.

AJ Michel: A resident of New York, Mr. Michel is a student at City College, pursuing his degree in Art History. He became a member of the ICAA this fall, joining Michael Djordjevitch for Drawing the Greek Orders. He has worked as assistant designer at Thom Filicia, Inc.

Robert O’Grady: A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, Mr. O’Grady has an M. Arch from Ohio State University and a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. Throughout the past decade working as a product developer in advanced 3D surface modeling, he has never lost his love for classical architecture.

William Pordy: Before attending the NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Pordy studied with Dr. William Jordy at Brown University, where his architectural interests were first instilled. Currently the CEO of Delicious Milk Company in New York, Dr. Pordy has held numerous board and director appointments, hospital and medical positions and is widely published.

Wendy Posard: Wendy Posard & Associates in San Anselmo, CA offers full architectural and interior design services, specializing in the classical and traditional. A graduate of U.C. Berkley, Ms. Posard has served on the Board of the Northern California Chapter.

Lisa Teters: Ms. Teters is an architect at VFine Homes in Fort Worth, TX, and an ICAA Professional member in the Texas Chapter. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University.

Joseph Tralongo: In his second year of attendance, Mr. Tralongo is a kitchen designer at Leeds Custom Design in West Palm Beach, FL. He has also previously attended courses in the Florida Chapter and traveled to Paris with the peerless ICAA tour there.

Their enrollment is a just one exemplary harbinger of progress ahead as are the more than 1,000 AIA Learning Units we provided in 2011 to professional students nationwide. Our goal is to double that number within two years as an objective measure of our unique contemporary capacity to impart the varied yet essential lessons of classicism.

After reading word of upcoming activity please plan to participate soon and often in this New Year.