Gilded Age and Edwardian Glamour, the Mansion at Oyster Bay
Traditional Building Conference attendees lived the good life on Long Island’s gold coast for two days of AIA CEU/HSW education; museum, architecture and garden tours; and the Palladio Awards annual Gala. This event in the 2023 Traditional Building Conference Series took place July 11-12.
For Immediate Release: 7.18.2023
Contact: Education Director jhayward@aimmedia.com 802.356.4348
The Mansion at Oyster Bay, a Colonial Revival house designed by Delano and Aldrich sits proudly between formal gardens and a lush golf course. Networking was easy on the mansion’s loggia where sea breezes tamed the heat. The mansion is a living laboratory for traditional building education.
On Tuesday evening, July 11, the conference area was transformed into a more formal setting for the annual Palladio Awards and dinner. White hydrangea and roses adorned each table of eight, and the room glowed with soft light as Palladio design award winners strode to the podium to accept their bronze trophies. The 2023 Palladio Award winners are featured again in the July issue of TRADITIONAL BUILDING.
EDUCATION and TOURS
The first day of education began with a fascinating look at Stanford White’s own country house in Smithtown, Long Island, still inhabited by his grandchildren. As it happens, one of these grandchildren is architect Samuel White, FAIA, PBDW Architects, who explained his restoration and renovation of his grandfather’s house, Box Hill (1885).
Richard Off, AIA, and Senior Architect at Hoffman Architects and Engineers, presented a “Materials and Methods” case study of his copper roofing restoration and replacement on an institutional building.
2023 Palladio winners, Richard Bories, and James Shearron, shared the design- details of their award-winning, new period house under 5,000 square feet, project on a challenging site in East Hampton, L.I. N.Y.
J. Scott O’Barr, AIA, showed how he and his colleagues at Voith and Mactavish Architects use hand-drawing, watercolor rendering and computer aided design to develop ideas into final project plans. Mr. O’Barr led twelve participants, sketchbooks in hand, on an afternoon sketching tour of the Mansion and Oyster Bay.
Nearby museum, garden and architectural tours included excursions to Raynham Hall, Coe Hall, and Old Westbury Gardens. Participants traveled through three centuries of history and beauty.
Ann Rauch, Architect Strategic Marketing Manager, Marvin Windows, moderated a venerable panel of preservation architects who shared their insights about the nexus of historic preservation with affordable housing, adaptive reuse, social welfare, and the ever-challenging conundrum of “compatible but differentiated” traditional building renovations. Paul S. Alter, AIA, Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership; Laura Heim, FAIA, Laura Heim Architect; and Daniela Holt Voith, FAIA, Voith and Mactavish Architects were the panelists for this discussion. The Q&A was lively!
Russ Oliveri, Oliveri Millworks, explained good specifications, sound installation and hurricane performance of windows and doors. Jason Savage, of Ecorad, explained the intricacies of restoring steam radiators for modern heating needs, including converting them to electric heat whilst preserving their historic look and feel.
MATERIALS, METHODS, and NETWORKING
Building material sponsors help underwrite Traditional Building Conference education for the architect, contractor, building owner and facilities manager attendees and many offer AIA registered, technical courses of their own. These suppliers and service providers are dedicated to serving the $170 billion traditional building market.
Platinum Sponsors:
Aeratis; Allied Window; Cambek; The European Company; Historical Arts and Casting; Ludowici; Marvin; Mon-Ray, Inc.; NSG Pilkington; Oliveri Millworks; and Wilmette Hardware.
Bronze Sponsors:
Belt; Cooper Historical Windows; Ecorad; Haddonstone; Kolbe Windows & Doors; Rugo Stone; and Vintage Millwork & Restoration
Awards
See all the 2023 Palladio award winners at https://www.traditionalbuilding.com/palladio-awards.
THE THIRD TRADITIONAL BUILDING CONFERENCE in the 2023 SERIES
Tampa FLA.is the final stop in the 2023 Traditional Building Conferences Series, December 5 -6 at the historic Floridan Palace Hotel.
The Traditional Building Conference provides continuing education for architects, designers, engineers, and builders who serve historic preservation and traditionally inspired new construction. For more information, please contact the following:
Registration- Carolyn Walsh- cwalsh@aimmedia.com
Marketing – Gina Martin - gmartin@aimmedia.com
Sponsorship- Jennifer Baldwin-jenbaldwin1@msn.com
Education-Judy L. Hayward – jhayward@aimmedia.com 802.356.4348
Judy L. Hayward spends her days pursuing a passion for historic architecture and the ways in which it can be reused to sustain and grow healthy communities. She develops courses in partnership with builders, architects, traditional craftspeople and others to teach both historic preservation and traditional building skills. She has one foot in the nonprofit world as executive director of Historic Windsor and the Preservation Education Institute and the other foot in the world of media and information services as education director for the Traditional Building Conference Series and Online Education Program.
