New Classical architecture

New Classical Architecture is a contemporary movement in architecture which embraces classical and traditional styles of architecture. The New Classical movement was born out of Post Modern Architecture 's criticisms of Modern Architecture. Early practitioners of New Classical Architecture were devotees and students of Post Modernism. While certain influential Post Modernist architects such asCharles Moore, Robert Venturi and Michael Graves were to use classical elements as an ironic motif, in order to criticize modernism's sterility, some of their students began to see classicism as a legitimate mode of architectural expression. Architects such as Thomas Beeby and Robert A.M. Stern practiced both in post modern as well as classical modes.

Thomas Gordon Smith, the 1979 Rome Prize laureate from the American Academy in Rome, was a devotee of Charles Moore. In 1988 Smith Published "Classical Architecture - Rule and Invention" and in 1989 was appointed to be chair of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture^[1]. Smith and colleague Duncan Stroik transformed the program into the only architecture school entirely dedicated to classical architecture. Today other programs exist which teach in part New Classical Architecture at the University of Miami, Judson University, Andrews University and in beginning in 2013^[2], University of Colorado Denver.

There are numerous firms practicing varieties of New Classical Architecture around the world today:

• Thomas Gordon Smith - South Bend, Indiana
• Duncan Stroik - South Bend, Indiana
• Robert A.M. Stern - New York
• Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge - Chicago
• Robert Adam - London
• Quinlan Terry - England
• Leon Krier, Luxembourg
• Glave & Holmes - Richmond, Virginia
• Peter Pennoyer - New York
• Duncan McRoberts - Seattle, Washington
• David M. Schwarz - Washington, DC
• Milton Grenfell - Washington, DC
• Neumann, Lewis, Buchanan - Washington, DC
• Gil Schafer - New York
• John Simpson - London