ICAA-NW THOLOS
ICAA Northwest Tholos is an architecture, interior design & theory tutorial dedicated to classical design in contemporary practice. The tutorial serves to advance the classical mind by defining & translating a broad spectrum of classical principles as they apply to a participant’s individual career vision.
The course is organized for individual, personal tutorials with ICAA-NW Chapter President, Duncan McRoberts, emphasizing how the universality of the classical lexicon, and its practice, may improve one’s knowledge, design abilities and discernment. Tutorial sessions involve discussions, readings, creative work case studies, drawings, references, and outlines for self-study as they relate specifically to each candidate’s needs. Curricula and sessions vary as each candidate has differing classical design skill levels and career aspirations. This is not a pre-organized group session or group class. Tholos is open curricula, individual tutorials - dedicated to long term growth.
Proem: Classicism is not interested in a history of sentimentality. Instead, classical architecture is forward looking, progressive and based on foundations of conservation and investment rather than consumption and waste. Its principles encourage community, harmony with nature and economy of resources and energy. These values apply from the smallest towns to the greatest cities, are of human scale, and facilitate an efficient and satisfying way of life. Classicism is a product of human artistic skill in making rather than an industrial process, and its aura of craft traverses a well-spring of tectonic character within a variety of structurally-symbolic and structurally-poetic traditions & cultures. Its metaphorical provinces and laws of beauty mean concepts of structure can exhibit a straightforwardness of vernacular in simplicity, durability and essentialness - as well as attain cultural and civic import through honorific, high style elaboration.
Nature and Her Processes provide an origin and destination in this praxis, both in terms of sustainable building technology and architecturally figurative representation. The beautiful and the useful are at once mutually achieved in traditional design forms, and thus serve with environmental fortitude. In this continuum, as a language of well-building and aesthetic intelligence, classicism redefines itself for modern problems, promotes a revived culture of building, and promises progress through enduringness of craft, quality and beauty.
NOTE: you must be a member of the ICAA to register. Tutorials begin when you begin; thus, please submit a short essay stating your intent in joining Tholos in order to schedule personal tutorials.
DATE: Year of 2021
TIME: per individual scheduling
LOCATION: 720 MARKET ST, KIRKLAND, WA 98033
REGISTER: Please submit your intentions in joining Tholos by writing a short essay. Meeting times are scheduled on an individual basis throughout the year 2021. Email to Duncan McRoberts: duncan@mcroberts-associates.com
