Design Your Dream: AIBD House Style Tour Dates 2008

Submitted by GFS on Mon, 2008-02-25 15:07.

 

The Institute of Classical Architecture

February 25, 2008 ~ WWW.CLASSICIST.ORG

HOUSE STYLE TOURS
SPECIAL TRAVEL CLASSES
Offering advanced training in traditional residential design
for design and construction professionals

Presented in conjunction with the AIBD and Period Style Homes, Inc.

Learn to create better designed and detailed houses of beauty and value

The classes will cover: general concepts of residential design; detailed instruction in selected regional styles; site visits and sketching tours.  General concepts of residential design covered include an overview of traditional American residential styles; strategies for locating and massing a house; instruction in plan and façade composition; and discussion of materials and the detailing of roofs, eaves, walls, doors and windows will be studied for each of the regional styles. The core of these classes is the presentation of case studies of new projects done by architects and designers that explore the various styles to be studied. 

2008 TOURS AND DATES

San Antonio, Texas; May 2 ? 5, 2008
Styles Covered:  Mission & Southwest Mediterranean

Winter Park, Florida; June 20 ? 22, 2008
Styles Covered: Mediterranean Revival

Annapolis, Maryland; October 3 ? 5, 2008
Styles Covered: American Georgian & 20th Century Colonial Revival

For further information or to register please contact:

Michael Gormley
mg@classicist.org
(212) 730-9646 x 100

Robin Lawrence-Garret
robin@periodstylehomes.com
(239) 433- 0085

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