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CENTER
FOR PALLADIAN STUDIES
IN AMERICA, Inc., provides
its members a vehicle for appreciating and learning more
about how Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio changed
the way the world looks today. CPSA offers a diverse
program for members at all levels of interest and knowledge.
Palladiana.
CPSA publishes Palladiana, a semi-annual journal
of Palladianism scholarship and news of interest to its
members. DETAILS.
Symposia
and lectures. CPSA sponsors a regular program
of lectures and discussions with leading authors, scholars
and experts on Palladio and Palladianism.
CPSA
also sponsors two annual symposia on Palladian topics, in
Charleston, S. C., in April and Richmond, Va., in November.
The Richmond symposium, now in its 20th year, is co-sponsored
with Virginia Commonwealth University; the newly-launched
Charleston symposium is co-sponsored with the joint historic
preservation program of Clemson University and the College
of Charleston, and Drayton Hall, an historic site of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Alert!
The inaugural symposium in Charleston (tentatively
entitled Vitruviana 2012: Charleston and the Development
of American Architecture) will be held in Charleston,
S. C., on 13 April 2012. (See below for
information on a complementary one-day bus tour.)
Complete details will be mailed to CPSA members
and posted here when plans are completed.
Alert!
The 20th annual VCU Architectural Symposium in Richmond
will be held in Richmond, Va., on 16 November 2012.
Complete details will be mailed to CPSA members
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Tours.
CPSA regularly organizes educational, reasonably-priced
group tours in America and Europe, including tours to the
Veneto region of Italy to visit the villas, churches and
palaces designed by Palladio himself, and to Germany and
England for examples of European Palladianism.
Tours in America have visited Palladian-inspired houses
and other structures in Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia.
Recent
tours have included a sold-out tour of Palladio's own villas
and churches in the Veneto region of Italy and one-day bus
and walking tours of Palladian architecture in New York
City and Washington, D. C.
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Alert!
On 14 April 2012 CPSA will conduct a one-day bus tour
of historic Palladian parish churches surrounding
Charleston, South Carolina. The tour will complement
the international architectural symposium (tentatively
entitled Vitruviana 2012: Charleston and the Development
of American Architecture) to be held in Charleston
13 April 2012. (See above.) Complete
details will be mailed to CPSA members and posted
here as soon as plans are completed.
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Exhibitions.
CPSA presents from time to time, often in cooperation
with other organizations, exhibitions on Palladian and architectural
history topics.
Books.
CPSA is currently preparing for publication a new and expanded
edition of Peter Hodson's The Design and Building of
Bremo: Birth of a Virginia Plantation House, with
a new study by Calder Loth of the classic home's.interior.
Earlier
CPSA publications include the three-volume Building by
the Book series (1984, 1986, 1990), edited by Mario
di Valmarana, and Palladio and America: Selected Papers
Presented to the Andrea Palladio International Center for
Study of Architecture (1997), edited by Christopher
Weeks. DETAILS.
Grants.
Grants have been made in support of other books, exhibitions
and historical studies, including Douglas Lewis' The
Drawings of Andrea Palladio (rev. 2nd ed., 2000) and
Bryan Clark Green's In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture
of Thomas R. Blackburn (2006).
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