PlanPhilly: Planning Philadelphia's Future

This course highlights key principles of sustainable design through the credit categories for a green building rating system. The course: 1. Covers factors affecting thermal comfort. 2. Ways to improve indoor air quality through controlled ventilation and material selection. 3. Helps the audience understand how to create superior acoustical environments through sound control design practices 4. Help understand design strategies to help create a high quality visual environment. 

To register for this event please contact Robert Clark @  610-341-6861, robert.t.clark@saint-gobain.com

A multi-year celebration of the 500th anniversary of Andrea Palladio's birth began in 2008. Although Palladio is a name unfamiliar to most Americans, this 16th-century Italian has had an immeasurable impact on our county's architecture. His descriptions of the classical orders have served as a textbook for generations of American architects and builders. His designs for villas have influenced the appearance of countless American houses from the colonial period to the present. Thomas Jefferson, Palladio's greatest American champion, declared Palladio's treatise I Quattro Libri to be the "Bible" for architecture. In his own works, such as Monticello and the Virginia State Capitol, Jefferson provided the nation with precedent-setting models based on Palladian principles. Finally, Palladio's restoration drawings of ancient Roman monuments became a primary source of inspiration for some of the most ambitious works of the "American Renaissance" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Even five hundred years following his birth, Palladio continues to offer us lessons for a civil and timeless architecture. Calder Loth, Senior Architectural Historian of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and a curator of the exhibition Palladio and His Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey, will present a lecture on Palladio and the American architectural image, tracing the hand of Palladio on two-and-a-half centuries of American building. 

Registration is required.

Register by contacting Susan Gallo, 215-925-2688, sgallo@philaathenaeum.org 

The cost is free to Athenaeum and ICA&CAmembers, $10 all others

This four-part lecture series explores the classical European architectural styles which have influenced 2,000+ years of building design. Presented on Monday evenings, this series provides an in-depth exploration of the influence of European architecture through the ages. Participants are a lively and diverse group from a wide range of backgrounds and professions, from architecture enthusiasts to design professionals and lay people to business people.

Cost: $100 General Public, $80 Members, $40 Students/Associates

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March 23, Tuesday, 6-8 pm. Series runs through May 25. Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch St. 25 member, $30 general public, $15 under 35, register here.
Building Philadelphia: Architecture, History & Politics is the definitive course on the development of Philadelphia and its architecture. This engaging 10-part lecture series is taught by architects, urban planners, art historians and social historians from local universities and architecture firms.