New Classical architecture




New Classical architecture, New Classicism or the New Classical movement is a contemporary movement in architecture that continues the practice of Classical architecture. It can be considered as the modern continuation of Neoclassical architecture. The design and construction of buildings in this tradition is continuous throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, even as modernist and other post-classical theories of architecture have been more dominant.

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Educational institutions

While modernist teaching remains dominant at universities and architecture faculties around the world, some institutions focus solely, mainly or partly on teaching the principles of traditional and classical architecture and urban planning. Some of these are: In Brazil Centro Universitário Euroamericano  pt (UNIEURO) in Brasília In India Tirumala S.V. Institute of Traditional Sculpture and Architecture (SVITSA) in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh In Italy Polytechnic University of Bari in Bari In New Zealand UNITEC Institute of Technology in Auckland In the United Kingdom National Design Academy in Nottingham (heritage interior design) The Prince's Foundation for Building Community in London The Prince's School of Traditional Arts in London Unit 6 of the Kingston School of Art's Master of Architecture program; the only postgraduate unit in the United Kingdom to teach classical design. Previously, this was taught in the undergraduate program. University of Portsmouth in Portsmo
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Development

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In Britain, architect Raymond Erith continued to design classical houses into the late 1960s and early 1970s. Quinlan Terry, a New Classical Architect who continues to practice, was an employee, later a partner and now the successor of the late Raymond Erith. In the late 1970s several young architects in Europe began challenging modernist proposals in architecture and planning. To broadcast them, Leon Krier and Maurice Culot founded the Archives d'Architecture Moderne in Brussels and began publishing texts and counterprojects to modernist proposals in architecture and planning. It received a boost from the sponsorship of Charles, Prince of Wales, especially with The Prince's Foundation for Building Community. In these years, postmodern architecture developed a critique of modernist architectural aesthetics. Among them were certain influential postmodernist architects such as Charles Moore, Robert Venturi, and Michael Graves, who used classical elements as ironic motifs in or
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