Hosted by the ICAA Texas Chapter
Plaster: Molding, On-Site and Off-Site Casting, Trim, and Cornices
In this class, we will explore the art and craft of plaster, from its use as a wall surface to its intricate application as decorative trim. You’ll learn how plaster is fabricated and installed, whether molded on-site or cast off-site as an appliqué.
Our journey will include remarkable examples like the Château de Fontainebleau, Robert Adam’s Osterley Park, the John Soane Museum, and Antonio Gaudí’s Casa Güell. We will examine plaster as both a key architectural element and an ethereal, cloud-like surface that transforms spaces.
Instructor: Jay Cantrell
Jay Cantrell is from a small but cosmopolitan area known as Sherman, TX. This is a place where several prominent architects such as Mark Lemmon, Frank Welch, and Michael Dennis had their beginnings.
While growing up, he indulged most of his architectural sensibilities drawing the ruins of the old Woodmen Circle Mansion, the prairie style houses, or the grain elevators on the periphery of town. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington and then worked for Ralph L. Duesing, Arch. For 10 years. When obtaining his Master of Architecture at the University of Virginia, he became fascinated with the study of light in architecture as a spatial animator, seen in his thesis project in Rome and in the paintings and buildings he creates.
Upon graduating, he won the Gabriel Prize in Architecture and lived in Paris during the summer of 2009. He focused on watercolors of the Passages, celebrating Paris’ extraordinary light quality as seen through its iron and glass ceilings. He has since returned to Dallas, Tx. to teach and create.
During the week Jay teaches Architecture at CAPPA School of Architecture in Arlington and works for Larry E. Boerder Architects. On the weekends he has a part-time design and painting studio and also hosts walking tours of the architecture of downtown Dallas.
This event is hosted by an ICAA Chapter. Please check the Chapter website or contact the Chapter directly, for the most up-to-date details including dates, times, and pricing.