On June 7, 2024, the National Civic Art Society, together with The Academy Of Philosophy & Letters, co-sponsored a lecture by C.J. Howard on "The Arrow of Aesthetics: Architecture’s Role in Cultural Formation Through Virtue." The event took place at the University of Maryland, with introductions by Luke Sheahan and NCAS President Justin Shubow.
You can watch the video HERE.
About the speaker: C.J. Howard is principal architect at C.J. Howard Architecture LLC. He is a registered architect who has spent more than two decades practicing in the Washington, D.C. region. He has extensive experience working for firms nationally known for their commitment to, and expertise in, classical and traditional design. Since 2017, Mr. Howard has also served as Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America where he teaches in the newly launched classical traditional architecture and urbanism track.
Mr. Howard has most recently been a Lead Project Architect for McCrery Architects in Washington, D.C., leading the design and construction of major ecclesiastical projects (both to benefit vibrant and growing Catholic communities on university campuses as well as expanding dioceses). Some of those projects include: a new Thomas Aquinas Chapel and Blessed John Newman Student Center at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln), renovated Saint John Paul the Great Chapel at Mundelein University, a New Christ the King Chapel for Franciscan University of Steubenville and a new Sacred Heart Cathedral in Knoxville, TN.
In addition to his ecclesiastical portfolio, Mr. Howard has worked on a variety of residential and civic projects including several urban design projects in collaboration with the District Department of Transportation, to propose visionary new projects for our Nation’s Capital. He has also garnered attention for his entries in design competitions including a 2008 winning entry for a Contrabands’ and Freedmen’s Cemetery Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia. His winning design, chosen from among several hundred entries submitted from 20 countries, was used as the design framework for the memorial which was completed and dedicated in 2014.
Mr. Howard received both his Bachelor of Architecture (2000) and Master of Architectural Design and Urbanism (2010) from the University of Notre Dame. In 2010, Mr. Howard received the Ferguson & Shamamian Graduate Prize for excellence in classical/traditional design exhibited in a graduate thesis. In 2019, Mr. Howard won the Leicester B. Holland Prize Competition. He is licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland and is a member of the Institute of Classical Architecture, National Civic Art Society, and National Council of Architecture Registration Boards.
