1 credit towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture (Building Craft) | Submitted for AIA CES Approval
One of the persistent challenges in contemporary urban and suburban development is negotiating between scales: a mid-rise residential or mixed-use project that is too large to read as an extension of the lower-scale fabric around it or too small to simply follow the logic of the denser development nearby. This type of 4- to 12-story building is everywhere, and most examples across the country default to generic forms and confused materiality. Doing better within the real constraints of a developer's pro forma demands compositional discipline calibrated to the human experience and authentically responsive to context.
In this webinar, Josh Arcurio, principal at David M. Schwarz Architects, will draw on three completed projects as case studies to examine how traditional architectural massing and detailing are applied to mid-rise architecture today. The Waycroft in Arlington, Virginia; Chevy Chase Lake in suburban Maryland; and The Parkview within Southlake Town Square in Texas each respond uniquely to adjacent densities and uses. The presentation will examine how the classical vocabulary of material hierarchy, bay articulation, stepped profiles, and tripartite composition was deployed to respond to context as well as the practical demands of contemporary construction systems. This includes a close look at how the formal organization of traditional architecture accommodates the requirements of modern cavity wall assemblies and, in the case of Chevy Chase Lake, how a masonry exterior maps onto the structural reality of Type III "stick over concrete" podium construction.
Josh Arcurio is a Principal and the Design Technology Administrator at David M. Schwarz Architects. His recent project experience has focused on transit-oriented, mixed-use planning and architecture projects; institutional, civic, and educational architecture; and feasibility studies and design for performance and music venues.
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