Selective histories.The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America is at www.classicisl.org. It has travel programmes, does publications, runs salons, symposia and academic programmes, lists a lively calendar of events and the like. The organisation has six chapters, runs an annual conference, has recently honoured Brit Quinlan Terry Quinlan Terry (born 24 July, 1937 in Hampstead) is an English architect. He was educated at Bryanston School and the Architectural Association. He was a pupil of architect Raymond Erith, with whom he formed the partnership Erith & Terry. and American Henry Hope Reed, who got the first Henry Hope Reed Award, presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. for being himself and certainly because of his lifelong dedication to the cause of classicism classicism, a term that, when applied generally, means clearness, elegance, symmetry, and repose produced by attention to traditional forms. It is sometimes synonymous with excellence or artistic quality of high distinction. although, I think, strictly speaking Adv. 1. strictly speaking - in actual fact; "properly speaking, they are not husband and wife" properly speaking, to be precise it should be 'classicalism'. Dedicated to 'advancing the practice and appreciation of the classical tradition in architecture and the allied arts', according to the beginning of its rather long mission statement the institution is based at the Roman Catholic University of Notre Dame architecture school which turns out to have been a hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which of classical and 'traditional' architecture for the last 12 years. Let a thousand flowers bloom, I say. Though what they say is 'Classical architecture is the best that a tradition produces. Every culture has a tradition. Ours runs from ancient Greece and Rome through the founding of the United States.' So there. But you still want to ask, what about Mesopotamia? And Egypt? And those blokes who might have invented Gothic, the Moors? And the Picts. Possibly. Sutherland Lyall is at sutherland.lyall@btinternet.com |
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