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About Us
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Academy Press was founded in 2002 by husband and wife publishers Jan Cigliano and George Hartman. We run the business and work day-to-day with clients, authors, artists, and designers.
Jan Cigliano, a historian, writer, and publisher, and an editor formerly with Princeton Architectural Press and John Wiley & Sons, has managed and published nearly a hundred books, several of which have received national awards for editorial and design excellence. She is the author of six books, including Private Washington: Residences in the Nation’s Capital (Rizzoli, 1998); Grand American Avenue, 1910-1950 (Pomegranate/American Architectural Foundation, 1994); Showplace of America: Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue, (Kent State University Press, 1991); and Pencil Points Reader: A Journal for the Drafting Room (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), co-edited with George Hartman. Jan curated two major, award-winning exhibitions for The Octagon Museum and for the Western Reserve Historical Society, experience she brings to help Academy Press concept, develop, visualize, and execute large and complex publication projects. She graduated with a BA in history with highest honors from Oberlin College and a master’s in urban planning from George Washington University. An alumnus of the Preservation Institute: Nantucket, Jan has national experience in preservation, architectural history, urban design, and commercial real estate.
List of Works: Acquired, Developed, and Edited by Jan Cigliano
George Hartman, FAIA, is a designer, teacher, and publisher. An internationally acclaimed architect, George is principal emeritus of Hartman–Cox architects and co-publisher of Academy Press. He oversees design and manages the business. George was founding principal for 40 years of Hartman–Cox in Washington, D.C., which has received over one hundred national and international design awards, including the American Institute of Architects Firm award in 1988 and American Institute of Classical Architecture firm award in 2006. George is a Fellow of the AIA and the American Academy in Rome, and recipient of the prestigious Centennial Award in 2005, the highest honor bestowed by the AIA DC Chapter. In addition to the Pencil Points Reader, he co-edited with Warren Cox Hartman–Cox: Selected and Currents Works (Images, 1994). George received his BA and MFA in architecture from Princeton University. He has taught at Catholic University, North Carolina State University, and the University of Maryland, and has served on numerous juries and lectured extensively. He has also served as president of the AIA Washington Chapter, and as a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and the U.S. Department of State’s Architectural Advisory Board of the Foreign Buildings Office.
DC Chapter Honors George Hartman for Lifetime of Service
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