Hosted by the ICAA Florida Chapter | This program is pending CEU
We will consider the different design influences on the City Beautiful movement, first in Chicago at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and then in Coral Gables in the 1920s. We will look at some related building designs by architects with ties to both places, with special attention to their drawings. Finally, we'll ask whether and how City-Beautiful planning remains relevant to Coral Gables today.
R. Samuel Roche is an architect and partner with Stephenson Roche Partners since 2017, focused on new buildings and renovations of all types to create, preserve, and enhance their sense of place and history. He has written on urban planning in the book Plans of Chicago (2009), for a public process to redesign the Eisenhower Memorial in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and on the classical origins of Louis Kahn's modernist architecture in The Classicist No. 9. He studied architecture and art history at Princeton and Yale universities and at the ICAA's Beaux-Arts Atelier, and he has taught classical-design studios for the University of Miami and Benedictine College. He is a native of Savannah, Georgia.
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At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
1) Understand how American cities developed as follows: A) with two distinct and functionally dependent parts, a concentrated commercial center and a diffuse residential periphery; B) and a resulting dependence on strong transportation connections for the daily commute
2) Identify two planning approaches which tried to solve problems inherent in each part: A) City-Beautiful planning to order and beautify the congested city center. B) Garden-city planning to preserve natural landscape threatened by suburban sprawl.
3) Understand Coral Gables as a suburban garden city with city-beautiful special features; 4) Distinguish modern city-beautiful- and garden-city-influenced designs from modernist ones;
5) and consider their special relevance to Coral Gables.