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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.
Group
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 homes and
other structures in Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana.
The
most recent tour was a 9-day pilgrimmage in October 2008
to the Palladian villas and churches in the Veneto region
of Italy, sponsored by the Virginia Center for Architecture
in cooperation with CPSA.
Lectures.
CPSA sponsors a regular program of lectures and discussions
with leading authors, scholars and experts on Palladio and
Palladianism. CPSA also co-sponsors Virginia Common-wealth
University's annual architectural history symposia.
Exhibitions.
CPSA presents from time to time, often in cooperation
with other oreganizations, exhibitions on Palladian and
architectural history topics. The most recent exhibition
was "Harmony to the Eyes: Charting Palladio's Architecture
from Rome to Baltimore," co-sponsored with Johns Hopkins
University in 2008.
Books.
CPSA publications include the three-volume Building by
the Book series (1984, 1986, 1990), edited by Mario
di Valmarana; Bremo: The Establishment of a Virginia
Plantation (1988), by C. Allen Brown; 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 Douglas Lewis' The
Drawings of Andrea Palladio (rev. 2nd ed., 2000), Bryan
Clark Green's In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture
of Thomas R. Blackburn (2006), and Douglas Lewis' projected
Villa Cornaro at Piombino. Other recent grants
have supported a study of Battersea, the important 1768
Palladian home in Petersburg, VA, and the Virginia Historical
Society's exhibition of Thomas Blackburn's architectural
drawings.
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