Friday, March 18th, Architect John Tittmann will give a lecture on ‘Rule and Invention: Innovation in Neo-classical Forms’.
The event will be will be held at 2pm at the Foundation’s offices, located at 311 Peruvian Avenue in Palm Beach. It is free to members, students, and Town of Palm Beach government employees and $20 for non-members. Seating is limited so to make reservations please call 561.832.0731.
John Tittmann is a partner of the New England architecture firm Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects. Named one of the best architecture firms of 2008 by Best of Boston, Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects create finely crafted houses that pay homage to classic American house styles yet are adapted with skill, mastery, and a good dose of irreverence to suit contemporary American life.
Famed post-modern architect Robert A. M. Stern has heralded them as the future of neo-classical architecture. “At first glance the work of Jacob Albert, James V. Righter and John Tittmann seems about as far from ‘cutting edge’ as one can get,” said Stern. “Yet, in the context of its time — our time — it is radical, refreshingly so, taking its place in a broad movement of Modern Traditionalism, comprising architects who have decisively broken with the relentless present-ism of stylistic modernism that has monopolized contemporary architecture since the 1920s. . . . what a pleasure it is to have an architecture so beautifully naturalized—to site, to purpose, and to tradition.”
Tittmann was featured in the recently-published monograph New Classic American Houses, and will give an illustrated talk, ‘Rule and Invention: Innovation in Neo-classical Forms’. Using images of his firm’s recent projects and historical precedents, the lecture will trace his active engagement with vernacular architectural traditions to establish a sense of place and cultural identity.
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