Classicism In Hawaii Tour with Anne Fairfax

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Tour of Classical Architecture is sponsorings a tour of classical architecture February 11 – February 17, 2012.  Anne Fairfax’s inside knowledge of where to go, and what to see, will make this a real insider’s tour of the best of classical and traditional work. Highlights include Marion Sims Wyeth’s Shangri-La, designed for the intriguing Doris Duke; a private tour of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Bertram Gosvenor Goodhue’s …

Fairfax & Sammons is featured in The Vintage House, by Mark Alan Hewitt & Gordon Boc

Fairfax & Sammons Architects were honored to be a part of the new book, The Vintage House, featuring their successful renovation in 2004 to an 18th century cottage in Quogue, New York on Long-Island’s South Shore. A new kitchen and mudroom was the task with the client having the desire to expand without altering the rustic character of the building. The final design was based on formal patterns, with strong lines of the old house remaining in the remodeled one, ...

Anne Fairfax Lectures at 14th Annual US/ICOMOS International Symposium

Anne Fairfax lectured recently  at the 14th annual US / International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) International Symposium held in Washington D.C. June 2-4, 2011 on the issue of designing and building within historic districts.  She was asked to present a firm project that featured how to handle insertions into these sensitive areas. She chose to highlight an award-winning urban design project that Fairfax & Sammons designed for the country of Andorra for the neighborhood of St. Julia de …

Anne Fairfax Featured Panelist on Colonial Revival Exhibition

Anne Fairfax will be a panelist for the exhibition to benefit The American Style Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis on February 3, 2011. Colonial Revival sought to follow the American colonial architecture of the period around the Revolutionary War, usually being two stories in height with the ridge pole running parallel to the street, a symmetrical front facade with an accented doorway and evenly spaced windows on either side of it. An example being a Colonial Revival Townhouse …

Preservation Foundation Palm Beach Lecture - RD Dragisic

Richard Dragisic, Project Manager at Fairfax & Sammons lecture was included in the series Architects on Architects at the Preservation Foundation Palm Beach on December 15, 2010. RD’s lecture featured Marion Syms Wyeth, an American architect who designed numerous mansions in Florida including the Florida’s Governors Mansion in Tallahassee. Shangri-La is pictured to the left.  Dec 15, 2010 2:00 PM Free to Patron level members and above – $10 for below Patron level members – $20 non-members. Subscription fee for whole Architects on …

Durability in Construction Colloquium - Richard Sammons

Richard Sammons was an invited speaker at The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture’s three-day colloquium, “Durability in Construction,” Oct. 26 to 28, 2010 at Bond Hall, South Bend, Indiana. Durability was central to the practice of architecture for millennia; it went without saying that a building should be made to last as long as possible, with materials and construction techniques chosen toward that end. Ephemeral, short-term construction has become the norm today, but the increasing importance of sustainability …

Fairfax & Sammons Architects Wins Two Shutze Awards

Fairfax & Sammons walked away with two 2010 Shutze Awards in February, 2010 – one for an urban design project in Charleston, South Carolina and the other for a new stone house in Cooperstown, New York. The awards are sponsored by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America’s Southeast Chapter, with the award ceremony being held at the Atlanta History Center and hosted by Calder Loth, the eminent architectural historian. In describing the urban project, Mr. Loth said “The …

Fairfax & Sammons Wins Another CNU Award

FAirfax & Sammons won a prestigious CNU Award this year, Best for Small Town modernization – Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra in the Pyrenees and also in 2008 for A Vision of Marion Square in Charleston, Sout Carolina. The projects are based on the Charter principal: In order to promote the economic and general welfare of the city and of the public generally, and to insure the harmonious, orderly and efficient growth and development of the municipality, it is deemed essential by …

Coudert Institute Round Table on Architecture

Paul Goldberger, Vladimir Kagan, Anne Fairfax, Richard Sammons and John Loring as Moderator. Paul Goldberger, Architecture Critic of The New Yorker, will discuss his two new books: “Why Architecture Matters” and “Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture,” a collection of his architecture pieces from The New Yorker. He will talk about the role architecture plays in everyone’s life and where he expects architecture to be as we move into the second decade of the twenty-first century… Vladimir Kagan will be …

Richard Sammons Lectures on Architectural Proportion

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America hosted a special lecture with Richard Sammons at the Preservation Foundation in Palm Beach, Florida, February 13, 2010 from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm,  on the “Mechanics of Beauty”. The lecture and workshop taught by architect Richard Sammons covers the understanding and application of proportion in architecture and design.  Richard Sammons is the leading authority on architectural proportion and has lectured on the subject on many occasions… His written foreword for Theory …

Fairfax & Sammons Contenders for New Chelsea Barracks Scheme

Fairfax & Sammons Architects are in the running and being considered for the redesign of Chelsea Barracks, a prime 13-acre property in Chelsea, London. The original plan has been scrapped upon protest from HRH Prince Charles of Wales. The developer, Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company, bought it for an estimated £600 million. Chelsea Barracks were used by the Queen’s Guard, the site included administrative offices, armories & housing for approx. 1,300 people. There should be a common understanding of…

Anne Fairfax Presents Arthur Ross Awards

Anne Fairfax, chairman of the Institute of Classical Architecture presented the Arthur Ross Awards for Excellence in the Classical Tradition at the University Club in New York, in May, 2008. Close to 400 people attended to recognize the year’s winners and to pay tribute to the ICA&CA’s late and beloved co-founder, Arthur Ross. His leadership, generosity and wise counsel set a guiding standard for the Institute for years to come.Established in 1982 by Classical America chairman of the …

Classical Visionaries: A Jeffersonian Evening

Every year The Soane Museum Foundation holds a gala honoring those who uphold the classical tradition, at the Rainbow Room in New York. In 2009, Anne Fairfax and Foundation board member, Richard Sammons, were on hand to offer the official toast to the honorees, architect and urban designer, Jacquelin Robertson and David Morton, Senior Architectural Editor at Rizzoli International. Sir John Soane’s Museum, the former house and studio of the neo-classical architect, Sir John Soane, is a treasure trove of classical antiquities …

Charleston Office Art Walk

We decided to think outside the box and hold our own Art Walk with renderings of our projects displayed gallery-style throughout our new office. The response was overwhelming and we hosted well over 250 people who came through our doors. Featuring prominently were our watercolour renderings of our “Vision of Marion Square.” The Vision is a conceptual road-map for the future of Marion Square in the heart of Charleston conceived in conjunction with The Committee to Save the City and …

New Palladian Exhibition in London and Holland

Principals, Anne Fairfax & Richard Sammons were two of a compendium of architects to have an exhibit celebrating Celebrating the Year of Palladio 1508 – 2008 to mark the 500th Birthday of Andrea Palladio. The exhibition, sponsored by INTBAU, toured UK, Europe, USA and Australia and included the works by the world’s leading practitioners of contemporary Classicism and Traditional Architecture.  Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect whose ideas unleashed a passion for classical architecture which reached far beyond the shores of …

Charleston Statue Sparks Debate

Christopher Liberatos, former head of the Fairfax & Sammons Charleston office, designed the new base for the Moultrie statue in White Point Garden at the Battery in Charleston. It was a pro bono project for Christopher and it caused an unintended rallying point in The Charleston Post & Courier when the contractor installed the trigyphs upside down. Classicists everywhere stood behind Christopher who has asked that this be rectified. John Liberatos the brother of Christopher is also a staunch supporter …

NY Junior League House Tour of West 4th St

Anne Fairfax & Richard Sammons lent their houses to the Junior League House tour. This pair of carriage houses on a busy Greenwich Village street has an intriguing past. The smaller of the houses began life in the 1880s as a stable for a Washington Place townhouse. Converted in 1917 to a residence in the Colonial Revival style by architect Fayerwhether, it acquired a mansard roof in 1936.An early celebrated occupant was the landscape architect, Annette Hoyt Flanders. ...

Leaving the Dark Ages - Article by Richard Sammons

Richard Sammons being an authority on proportion and scale was approached byTraditional Building Magazine to write an article about Princeton’s new Whitman College. The project is a beautiful example of Green Architecture as it cost roughly $450 per sqft. The result is an efficient and well appointed project demonstrating good use of Gothic Architecture. Ms Whitman being an advocate of Traditional Building techniques was keen to employ these practices in the architectural design. American architects owe the vision a great… debt …

OpenHouseNewYork Tour of West 4th St

The Fairfax & Sammons House on West 4th Street, New York City participated in the annualOpenHouseNewYork (OHNY) tour in October, 2008. Originally occupied by an Italian sculptor, the designer of the Pierce Arrow hood ornament, it was acquired in the 1920’s by the industrialist and art collector, Armand Hammer, who joined the two buildings together and remodeled them as his New York home. When Anne Fairfax & Richard Sammons bought the property, they embarked on a total renovation that included …

Palm Beach Preservation Lecture & Book Signing Review

It was standing room only when Anne Fairfax, of the New York architectural firm of Fairfax & Sammons, delivered a presentation at the foundation on January 18. The impetus for Ms. Fairfax’s talk was the recent publication of a book regarding the works of her and husband’s company entitled, American Houses: the Architecture of Fairfax & Sammons. The lecture was an engaging exploration of the work of one of America’s preeminent architectural partnerships that specializes in the classical vernacular. In fact, ...