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.