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October 2014

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88 nshoremag.com October 2014 throughout six states for nearly a decade. Now, ICAA New England continues to make great strides toward ensuring the region's rich vernacular architecture car- ries on. The roots of the ICAA New England chapter trace back to the 1970s and 1980s, a time when an architect's education focused almost entirely on Modernism. To be a budding architect with an interest Architecture ne in traditional design was to go against the grain, says Sheldon Kostelecky, interim president of ICAA New England and a Lexington-based architect. "We had to spend our own time and money buy- ing books, traveling, sketching, going to lectures, and basically teaching ourselves how to correctly design traditional architecture." In fact, while enrolled in Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the early 1980s, Daum—ICAA New England's past president and current treasurer—says that he was one of only a handful of students to submit a classical building design for his thesis project in four decades. Kostelecky and Daum were new Classicists, an emerging generation who saw Modern and Postmodern designs as trendy. By contrast, Federal, Greek Re- photographs by elise donoghue New Traditionalist Eric Daum studied Classical architecture even when Modern design dominated the industry.

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