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Kona House, Hawaii, USA, 2005 by Legorreta + Legorreta
Photo: Lourdes Legorreta
FREE LUNCHTIME LECTURE
Andrea Palladio: The Eternal Contemporary
Monday 9 February
MaryAnne Stevens, exhibition co-curator.
RA FORUM
Shaping Places: The Pleasure of Patronage
Monday 9 February
Exhibition co-curator Guido Beltramini discusses Palladio’s relationship with his clients, while Yuli Toh of Toh Shimazaki Architects and Roger Zogolovitch of AZ Urban Studio discuss the possibilities of patronage today.
LECTURE SERIES
The Architects Who Made London
Monday 16 February – Monday 20 April
The third series of 'The Architects Who Made London', with architect and renowned broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson, engages notable scholars in lively conversations about the lives, personalities and work of a selection of key architects of the twentieth century who have shaped contemporary London.
PALLADIO EVENING LECTURE
Architecture and Music in Palladio's Churches
Friday 27 February
Deborah Howard, Professor of Architectural History, Cambridge University, and scholar on Venetian art and architecture, discusses the degree to which Palladio and other Venetian architects understood the subtleties of acoustics, and how they applied them to the designs of their churches.
FREE LUNCHTIME LECTURE
The Waning of Palladio's Influence: 1750-1850
Monday 2 March
Charles Hind, H. J. Heinz Curator of the RIBA Drawings Collection.
PALLADIO EVENING LECTURE
Hidden Histories: The Regency Transformation of Burlington House
Friday 6 March
The Royal Academy’s Burlington House is full of hidden stories. Dr Neil Bingham has been uncovering many of these in his exploration of Samuel Ware’s drawings of the mansion in 1812–18. These drawings reveal how Ware’s designs paid homage to the original historical character of Burlington House – a rare and beautiful revival of English Neo-Palladianism.
PALLADIO EVENING LECTURE
Making a New Architecture: Palladio as Innovator
Friday 13 March
Exhibition co-curator Professor Howard Burns discusses Palladio’s architectural innovation in relation to the ideas and graphic procedures that lie behind his works. As Burns explains, Palladio’s work as both designer and theorist reconfigured Roman heritage to create a new, modern architecture.
PALLADIO SYMPOSIUM
Re-reading Palladio
Saturday 14 March
In the last fifty years the basic tenets of mid-twentieth-century analyses of Palladio’s architecture have been accepted, popularized, expanded and mutated, but have also been subject to critique. This symposium re-examines these interpretations of Palladio’s architectural production – both his built and written work – seeking to locate them within their historiographical contexts.
RA FORUM
Palladio and Influence
Monday 16 March
Palladio is arguably the most influential architect in the Western world; but that influence is felt in many unexpected forms, as each generation and society has taken something different from their encounters with his work. Chaired by Professor Mark Swenarton, exhibition co-curator Professor Howard Burns, Sir Richard MacCormac RA and Peter de Bolla reflect on influence's ambiguities.
SKETCHING PALLADIAN LONDON
Mayfair – Saturday 4 April
St James's and Whitehall – Saturday 18 April
Palladio’s architecture has had an influence on numerous buildings close to the Royal Academy, including our own Burlington House. Architect and teacher Benedict O’Looney leads a choice of sketching tours covering two routes to discover Palladian London and learn how to draw its architecture.
