Atelier & Co.'s education studio exists to revive the teaching of architecture as a fine art on the model of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. 

Our education studio carries out its mission by raising funds for the formation of teaching ateliers; support for teachers and students in the ateliers; providing support for the work of those ateliers in the US and abroad; and organizing the competitions that serve as the method of evaluating the work of the students in the ateliers. 

The atelier system was the cornerstone of the Beaux Arts educational model. According to John Harbeson (1) the Beaux-Arts system relied upon the following ideas, which we aim to carry out through our programs:

  • The organization into ateliers

  • The tradition of the more experienced students teaching the beginners

  • The system of organized competitions

  • The reliance on practicing architects and artists carrying out the teaching in the ateliers and the judging of competitions

  • The beginning of the study of design as soon as the student enters the atelier

  • The system of the ‘esquisse’ (conceptual design sketches created under a time constraint)

  • The collaboration between architects, sculptors, and muralists to create integrated architectural experiences.

 

1.     Harbeson, John F.,  The Study of Architectural Design, Pencil Points Press, 1927 (republished with introduction by John Blatteau & Sandra L. Tatman, W. W. Norton, 2008) 

LECTURES & classes

THE EMERGENCE OF THE CLASSICAL SERIES (1-10)
MICHAEL DJORDJEVITCH

THE VIKING SERIES (1-4)
MICHAEL DJORDJEVITCH

APPROACHING THE RENAISSANCE SERIES (1-11)
MICHAEL DJORDJEVITCH

Michael Djordjevitch studied Architecture at the University of Toronto, receiving his B. Arch in 1981. He went on to work at the Royal Ontario Museum and also taught at the School of Architecture of the University of Toronto while taking courses in Art History. His principal teacher was Prof. Hans Luecke. In 1988, he was accepted into the history and theory program of the School of Architecture of Princeton University, receiving his Masters in 1991. The following year, he was received into the graduate program of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, completing the course and becoming a Fellow of the School in 1993. Throughout the 90’s, he worked as one of the two architects for the Agora Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. In 2001, be began teaching at the University of Notre Dame’s center in Rome. Following the completion of his term in 2003, he was invited to N.D.'s U.S. campus as a visiting critic. From 2011 to 2014 he taught Architectural Design, Theory, History, and the Orders at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art's full time year long Architecture program, the Beaux-Art Atelier. In 2014-2015 Michael taught these same subjects at the Beaux Arts Academy in Utah and Rome.

INSTAGRAM

'EIRENE' (Peace) Capriccio after Bernini's sketch for the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Peter's and a cupola from Madison Square Garden by Stanford White. RWC Atelier 2023 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called childre
Sometimes sketching random things-imaginary designs, buildings in Rome from Cipriani's illustrated et al keeps my hand in practice and the miles going g by on the train and after leads to design ideas for real projects-really doodling with a purpose.
One of the lesser known courtyards of Rome just down the street from the Trevi Fountain-the side loggia of the home of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome. Imagine entering this every day with Borromini as your professor...
The Villa Medici in Rome, home to the French Academy since 1803. All the great Rome prize winners worked in this building sending their rigorous and painterly surveys of the Roman and Greek monuments back to Paris (see previous post). I remember seei
Santi Luca e Martina in Rome. Cortona's great church in the Roman Forum next to the arch of Septimus Severus and church of the Academia di S. Luca, the world's first academy of fine art. It has been a focus of study for many years since it was first
The sublime student work(!) Of Emmanuel Brune, 1er Grand Prix 1863 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The first image sits beside my drawing table to remind me of the standard to aim for in design and delineation...