The New Latin: Academic Enclaves and The Language of Culture

February 13, 2008 ~ WWW.CLASSICIST.ORG

The New Latin:  Academic Enclaves
and The Language of Culture 

All classes are located at the ICA&CA offices
20 West 44th Street, 3rd Floor
New York NY

THE FIRST LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE: INTRODUCTION TO LATIN
Six Sessions on Wednesdays: February 20 & 27, March 5, 12, 19 & 26; 
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
$198 ($179 Members); 9 AIA/CES LUs (THEORY)
Instructor: Donatella Gorreri, Art History and Foreign Language Instructor (Italian and Latin)

Latin is the language of classical culture, passed down to us by the great writers, poets, historians, orators and architects through their works. Masterworks like Vitruviu’s De Architectura (The Ten Books of Architecture) comprise an intrinsic part of our artistic heritage, and continue to fascinate us with their harmonious and timeless beauty.
Professor Gorreri, an Italian–trained scholar and teacher of Latin and archaeology, will introduce the essentials of basic Latin through  the projection of images and the study of specific monuments of classical architecture. The emphasis will be on individual vocabulary words of Latin derivation, ultimately moving on to a fuller analysis of Latin terms in order to provide students with a basic grounding in Latin Syntax.

COLLEGE TOWNS: REDISCOVERING LOCAL TREASURES
Thursday, February 21; 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm; $25 ($20 Members, $10 Students & Interns)
2 AIA/CES LUs (THEORY)
Lecturer: Dhiru A. Thadani, AIA, CNU, Principal, Ayers/Saint/Gross

Dhiru Thadani, AIA, CNU, is a Principal and head of the Town Planning Studio at Ayers/Saint/Gross (ASG).  ASG is an architecture and planning firm primarily dedicated to serving academic institutions. They are currently working on 40 campuses across the United States and abroad.  Dhiru’s studio has for the past seven years been researching, designing, and implementing plans to revitalize the college town neighborhoods adjacent to these academic institutions.  His work employs new urbanist principals, utilizing a highly collaborative process to develop plans for sustainable, pedestrian-oriented communities which provide strong connections between the institution, the town and all various community amenities. Among his many projects, he has served as the lead designer for several developments in both first and third world countries, including a series of towns for 500,000 inhabitants as part of a 8,500 acre new university campus in India; redevelopment of a historical college town neighborhood in Clinton, Mississippi; and a comprehensive plan for the city of Lexington surrounding the University of Kentucky. Dhiru currently serves on the Board of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), and previously served as Chair of the CNU’s Design Task Force from 2000 to 2005.

For further information or to register please contact:

Leah Aaron
la@classicist.org
(212) 730-9646  X101

Michael Gormley
mg@classicist.org
(212) 730-9646  x100