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The WMA ICAA is proud to present Spring 2017 featured speaker, Andrés Duany.
Andrés Duany is an American architect and urban planner, and a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University and a master's degree from the Yale School of Architecture. With his firm, Duany has completed designs and codes for over three hundred new towns, regional plans, and inner-city revitalization projects. He is also a representative of New Classical Architecture. He has co-authored five books: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, The New Civic Art, The Smart Growth Manual, Garden Cities and Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents. Duany has worked as visiting professor at many institutions and holds two honorary doctorates.
On March 11 join us at the Cosmos Club as Andrés leads us in a discussion: VITRUVIUS, PLECNIK, KRIER--AND THE VERNACULAR MIND.

How to explain this contradiction of "Do as Vitruvius says.” and, simultaneously “Plecnik and Krier are great classical architects.” Illustrated by (little-known) designs of Plecnik and Krier, a thesis attempts to resolve this intellectual impasse. The thesis is based on the correct interpretation of the Vitruvian triad of satyric, comic and tragic scenes. It is further reinforced by a discussion of certain heterodox treatises, including the unfinished Lehrbuch by Schinkel.

PLEASE NOTE: Coat and tie required for men, the equivalent for women; Seating is limited and tickets will not be sold at the door.