On Saturday November 22, Edwin Heathcote, Carlo Ratti, Justin Shubow, and Kate Wagner will be discussing “Classicism Now” at a livestreamed event with audience Q&A.
This conversation was prompted by an op-ed by Carlo Ratti in the Financial Times as a response to the White House's Executive Order on federal architecture, and Justin Shubow and Norman Foster’s subsequent follow ups. Using this exchange as a point of departure, the panel will explore what such debates reveal about the status of classicism in contemporary architectural culture and practice, bringing together essayist and architecture critic Kate Wagner, architecture critic and classicism advocate Justin Shubow, and designer and architecture critic Edwin Heathcote in a discussion moderated by Carlo Ratti.
The event will be livestreamed from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST on Zoom and Instagram Live.
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88560838325 .
Instagram Live: @crassociati - https://www.instagram.com/crassociati/ .
Other time zones:
Venice / Rome: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
London: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Chicago: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
About the participants:
Edwin Heathcote is the architecture critic for the Financial Times.
Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab. He is the curator of the Biennale Architettura 2025.
Justin Shubow is president of the National Civic Art Society, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. He is former chairman of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.
Kate Wagner is the author of the McMansion Hell blog and is the architecture critic for The Nation.