# Francis Terry: New classical architecture.

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Published: 2026-01-22T22:00:00+00:00
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In Episode 186 of the A is for Architecture Podcast, neoclassical architect Francis Terry , founder of Francis Terry and Associates , discusses his upbringing, education, drawing, work, practice and the imposed politics of it all. In our binary times, it seems strange to think of traditional classical design -still so popular among the public - as somehow controversial, and yet here we are. The institutional profession certainly preferences contemporary modernism – look at all the prize winner – but perhaps this is hardly surprising given widespread disinterest in- and lack of practical knowledge of – the techniques and patterns of traditional design in architectural education. Classicism is of course tainted by its association to a certain politics; modernism by contrast remains rhetorically linked to emancipatory social movements. Even so, whilst classicism retains its hold on the public imagination as rooted, reassuring and legible, architects like Francis - versed in the Doric and the Tuscan, in fluted shafts, acanthus leaves and egg and dart, in astragal, dentils and domes - remain very busy. Francis Terry and Associates is here , and one of his books, Francis Terry: A Life in Sketchbooks , is linked here . Francis is on Insta and LinkedIn . + #ArchitecturePodcast #FrancisTerry #ClassicalArchitecture #NeoclassicalArchitecture #ArchitecturePodcast #ArchitecturalDrawing #TraditionalArchitecture #ArchitectureAndPolitics #ContemporaryArchitectureDebate #ArchitecturalPractice

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