Christine G.H. Franck's posterous

Christine G.H. Franck's posterous

Christine Franck  //  is a designer, author and educator with a practice focusing on custom residential design and decoration. A leader in education, she served as the first executive director of the ICAA and has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her published work includes the Winterthur's Traditional American Rooms, Jose M. Allegue: Legacy of a Builder, and the forthcoming ICAA's Handbook of Classical Architecture.

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Jul 19 / 9:21am

Greek Revival Style

The Greek Revival, or Grecian, style (at its height from 1820 to 1840) parallels a period of geographic expansion and growing national identity in America.  Part fashion, part conscious aesthetic, the Greek Revival is defined by its inventive use of ancient Greek forms.  Publications such as Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens drove a fashion for the Grecian style first in Europe and then in America.  But in America, it was more than fashion, it was political.  As a young country emerging from the shadow of our British colonial past, we sought new paradigms.  Viewing ourselves as inheritors of the Greek democratic tradition, we saw ourselves as the new Athens. 

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Filed under  //  Classical Architecture   Greek Revival   House Styles   Traditional Architecture  
 
Jul 8 / 10:31am

American Federal Style

After emerging independent and free from the colonial yoke of Great Britain, post-revolutionary America began to form its national identity. Whether inspired by the works of Seneca or the life of Cincinnatus, early leaders like George Washington understood this nation to be the inheritor of Roman republican traditions. They sought to imbue America’s Novus Ordo Seclorum with symbols and architecture evocative of this.  Concurrently, a growing class of merchants and landowners desired ways to show their taste and wealth.  This confluence of interests in symbolic meaning and fashionable forms flowered into America’s Federal Style.

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Filed under  //  Classical Architecture   Domestic Architecture   Federal Style   House Styles   Residential Architecture   Traditional Architecture  
 
Jun 28 / 6:55am

American Georgian Style

In the early days of America’s founding, along the eastern seaboard, English colonists built robustly beautiful homes that are today often referred to as Colonial. However, Georgian, or more descriptively American Georgian, better describes these houses and distinguishes them from earlier colonial traditions of our English, Dutch, Spanish, and French colonists. The term Georgian refers to the period of British history encompassing the reigns of Kings George I through IV (1714-1830).  American Georgian architecture is most prevalent prior to and just after our revolution, after which other stylistic influences drawn from discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum captivated popular taste.

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Filed under  //  American Georgian   Classical Architecture   Domestic Architecture   House Styles   Residential Architecture   Traditional Architecture  
 
Jun 13 / 7:20am

Palladio as Paradigm for Education and Practice Today

From Vernacular to Classical: The Perpetual Modernity of Palladio

University of Notre Dame, June 10-12, 2011

 Palladio as Paradigm for Education and Practice Today

by Christine G. H. Franck

Dean Lykoudis, faculty, alumni, students, and colleagues it is a pleasure to be back at Notre Dame for this remarkable conference and exhibition. I offer my sincere thanks to the School of Architecture and Lucien for organizing the conference, to Lucien and Ali for their thoughtful and thought-provoking New Palladians, to the RIBA for their inspirational exhibit celebrating 500 years of Palladio, to Calder Loth for his inimitable contributions to Palladio’s Transatlantic journey, and last to my fellow Institute of Classical Architecture & Art trustee, Anne Kriken Mann, for ensuring that the Palladio made it to America.

Reflecting upon the conference theme of the “Perpetual Modernity of Palladio,” I began to question Palladio’s value today. What lessons can Palladio teach us?

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Filed under  //  Classical Architecture   Education   Traditional Architecture   Traditional Urbanism  
 
Jan 19 / 8:58am

Houses of the French Colonial Tradition

          Of all American colonial building traditions, that of the French is one of the richest. While the houses of French Colonists owe a debt to their native traditions, they also wisely responded to the materials and climatic conditions found in America. From St. Genevieve, Missouri (1735) to New Orleans, Louisiana (1718) and beyond, French colonists created a diverse tradition including the Creole and Acadian Cottages, and the classic French Colonial house of the raised cottage type.

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Filed under  //  Classical Architecture   Domestic Architecture   French Colonial   House Styles   Residential Architecture   Traditional Architecture  
 
Jan 11 / 7:56am

THE SPANISH COLONIAL HOUSES OF ST. AUGUSTINE

Colonial is a common adjective used to describe American houses.  Yet which colonial do we mean?  Normally we are referring to English Colonial Houses.  Yet, from Florida to California, our colonial history is primarily Spanish, not English. Our oldest continuously inhabited city, St. Augustine, Florida, and early Southwest missions were built by Spanish conquerors, colonists, and missionaries. 

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Filed under  //  Classical Architecture   House Styles   Residential Architecture   Spanish Colonial   Traditional Architecture   Traditional Urbanism  
 
Dec 31 / 12:44pm

Pages from My Sketchbook: Observation and Representation

Architecture seen through the hand and eye, moments of memory recorded, elements studied and filed away in my mind for inspiration: my sketchbooks are filled with these, some of which I share here.

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Apr 16 / 7:40am

Christine G.H. Franck to Lecture on Traditional American Rooms in Dallas 04/22/10 at ICA&CA Texas Chapter

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Winterthur Style Sourcebook: Traditional American Rooms

a lecture by Christine G. H. Franck and Brent Hull

Thursday, April 22, 2010 

Gilliland Residence, 3720 Beverly Drive, Dallas, TX

5:30 Reception, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres

6:30 Dream Dallas Question and Answer Session

7:00–8:00pm Lecture

 

The lecture will explore the Winterthur Museum’s period rooms, the role of the Colonial Revival throughout America and the South, and their relevance for the best of design and craftsmanship today.

Set in the bucolic Brandywine Valley, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate is a treasure of historic American architecture and decorative arts. Created by avid collector and connoisseur Henry Francis du Pont, the vast collection includes period rooms from all thirteen original colonies. Central to the revival of taste for colonial America, today Winterthur is an unparalleled resource for architects, decorators, and patrons alike.

For the first time, with full color photography and original measured drawings, the architectural millwork of selected rooms is examined by master craftsman Brent Hull and designer Christine G. H. Franck in Winterthur Style Sourcebook: Traditional American Rooms.

Christine G. H. Franck is a designer and educator with a practice in New York City. She served as director of the academic programs of The ICA&CA from 1998 to 2005, and has held faculty appointments at the University of Notre Dame and Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture. Ms. Franck also serves on the Board of Directors of the ICA&CA and the Steering Committee of INTBAU. In 2002 Ms. Franck was honored by HRH The Prince of Wales with the first Public Service Award of the Prince’s Foundation for “her outstanding contribution to the study of architecture and design.”

Brent Hull is a leading expert on architectural design and historic construction. A master builder, Brent’s company, Hull Historical, works throughout the country consulting and manufacturing fine custom millwork for discerning clients. Brent speaks nationally and writes frequently for publications like Old House Journal, Period Homes, Fine Homebuilding, Remodeling and Tools of the Trade.

$50 ICA&CA members, $75 non-members, Free to paid Dream Dallas competition participants.

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Feb 25 / 1:06pm

Barry Bergdoll to give ICA&CA's Ninth Annual McKim Lecture, University Club March31, 2001

 
Ninth Annual McKim Lecture
Barry Bergdoll: Mastering McKim's Plan in the 21st Century
Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2008. Photo credit: Robin Holland.
Sponsored by Balmer Architectural Mouldings
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

6:15 pm Cocktail Reception
6:45 pm Lecture
Optional Dinner to Follow Lecture

University Club
College Hall
One West 54th Street
New York, NY

$55 per person for Cocktail Reception and Lecture ($30 tax deductible)
Optional Dinner in the University Club Dining Room is $70 (no-deductible)

RSVP Required: (212) 730-9646, ext. 109 or
click here to reserve online. Jacket and tie required for gentlemen, equivalent for ladies.

ICA&CA partners annually with the University Club and the One West 54th Street Foundation to present the McKim Lecture. This year, Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and professor of architectural history in the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University will discuss Charles Follen McKim's masterplan for Columbia University and its relevance in the 21st century.

Visit CALENDAR to learn more about lectures, tours, and events.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York Council for the Humanities and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

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Feb 6 / 12:19pm

Designing in Atlanta

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Last night at the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in Atlanta, Brent Hull and I lectured on our new book Winterthur Style Sourcebook: Traditional American Rooms. The event was organized by the ICA&CA Southeast Chapter, and sponsored by Randall Brothers. Thank you! Today we're teaching a seminar on classical design and good practice in millwork at Historical Concepts' wonderful office. High up on the 4th floor, our students are hard at work on an esquisse for a classical interior. The deadline is an hour away! It's great to see such talent and focus from these terrific architects and designers. Christine

Christine G. H. Franck, Inc.
154 East 61st Street
New York, NY 10065
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