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The Contemporary Palette: A Classicists View with John B. Murray

With a perspective that values symmetry, scale, and proportion, classical architect John B. Murray is repeatedly asked to look at decades-old, often historic, spaces, modify floor plans, and revisit materials and ornamentation to create a current and fresh spatial vision that addresses the needs of contemporary life. In this talk, John will share how his firms classical take on spatial and compositional problem-solving has evolved and embraced fresh, current concepts for elegant livingalways with a classicists mandate to establish living spaces that are timeless. This highly visual presentation will showcase Johns work in one of New York Citys most iconic residential buildings, as well as several of the projects featured in his recently-released second monograph Contemporary Classical Architecture John B. Murray (The Monacelli Press).

Whether Murray is redesigning an awkward apartment or creating a house from the ground up, one has the sense that this is the way it should always have been. His work has the subtle quality of a master who knows how to design spaces that will stand the test of time. Bunny Williams

Copies of Contemporary Classical Architecture John B. Murray will be available for purchase and signing following the lecture.

Instructors Biography:

John B. Murray is the principal architect and founder of John B. Murray Architect, a New York firm specializing in city and country residences designed within a classical framework. An honors graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, John joined the firm Parish-Hadley, where he worked with the legendary designer Albert Hadley. Hadley endorsed the founding of his partnership, Ferguson Murray Architects, LLP, in 1987, which then led to John opening his own independent practice, John B. Murray Architect, LLC, in 1997. John is a member of the ICAAs Presidents Council, serves on the board of the Professional Childrens School, the Thomas Jefferson Foundations Monticello Cabinet and will be a Design Co-Chair for the 2019 Winter Antiques Show. John B. Murray Architect has received multiple Stanford White and Palladio awards. The firms work is regularly published in Veranda, Architectural Digest, Luxe, Elle Decor, Galerie, and House Beautiful.