Born in an Alabama sawmill town, Bobby McAlpine designed his first house at the age of five and hasn’t stopped since. Architect, romantic poet, and entrepreneur, he envisions home as a timeless, graceful, and emotionally evocative place. Form the time he founded the firm in 1983, he has realized this ideal in a diverse array of traditional styles and regional vernacular for clients all over the country and abroad. Simply as McALPINE, the firm embraces a brilliant and eclectic family of architects and interior designers with offices in Atlanta, Nashville, New York, and Montgomery. They have been listed on Architectural Digest’s AD100 and Elle Decor’s A-List. Their designs include hundreds of residences, restaurants, private chapels, follies in a public park and on private lands, hotels, a school, a rehabilitated town, and a family compound on a private island on the Caribbean. Their extensive portfolio has been widely published in several books and many periodicals including VERANDA, ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, SOUTHERN ACCENTS, ELLE DECOR, SOUTHERN LIVING, HOUSE AND GARDEN (both US and British editions), GARDEN AND GUN, COASTAL LIVING, MILIEU, and TRADITIONAL HOME. Bobby’s popular furniture line, McAlpine Home, is available nationwide. He holds both architecture and interior design degrees and he continues his lifetime of learning in the world’s classroom. Bobby’s latest book, McALPINE Romantic Modernism (Rizzoli 2023) joins his critically acclaimed and Rizzoli bestselling titles The Home Within Us (2010) and Poetry of Place (2017).
Doors open 5pm | Lecture begins at 5:30 pm
