{"id":1802,"date":"2012-03-26T08:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/lane\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2012-03-26T08:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:49:49","slug":"act-architecture-in-the-classical-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/act-architecture-in-the-classical-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT &#8211; Architecture in the Classical Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend, colleague and inspired teacher&#8217;s work. \u00a0 Pierre was one of the presenters at our <a title=\"Monuments and Memory\" href=\"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/lane\/2007\/10\/18\/monuments-and-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monuments and Memory<\/a> conference here at GPRC a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"header\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/act.art.queensu.ca\/pics\/a_ACT_headerGeneral.jpg?resize=400%2C47\" alt=\"Architecture in the Classical Tradition\" name=\"header\" width=\"400\" height=\"47\" usemap=\"#m_header\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;\">It is a pleasure to personally welcome you to my web site, Architecture in the Classical Tradition. I invite you to use it, to enjoy it, and to send me your impressions. My purpose in creating this web site starting in 1996 was to share with you my reflections based on over forty years of teaching, photographing, studying, writing about, and helping to preserve our built environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"text\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Pierre du Prey<br \/>\nProfessor Emeritus &amp; Director of ACT<br \/>\nQueen&#8217;s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada<br \/>\npduprey@queensu.ca<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/act.art.queensu.ca\/homepage.php\">ACT &#8211; Architecture in the Classical Tradition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend, colleague and inspired teacher&#8217;s work. \u00a0 Pierre was one of the presenters at our Monuments and Memory conference here at GPRC a couple of years ago. &nbsp; It is a pleasure to personally welcome you to my web site, Architecture in the Classical Tradition. I invite you to use it, to enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,11,1],"tags":[39,202,246,259,343,346],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts","category-art-history","category-monuments-and-memory","category-uncategorized","tag-art-history","tag-monuments","tag-pierre-du-prey","tag-queens","tag-venice","tag-vimy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9nCfs-t4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11,"url":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/professor-pierre-du-prey-frsc-queens-research-chair-department-of-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":1802,"position":0},"title":"Professor Pierre du Prey, FRSC, Queen\u2019s Research Chair, Department of Art","author":"lane","date":"18 October 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Widely renowned as a dynamic and inspired historian of architecture in the classical tradition, Professor du Prey is highly commended by top colleagues from around the world for a scholarly approach which is both intellectually rigorous and socially embedded. 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