Burns Construction Group is a member of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art (ICAA). Not as a credential. More as a reflection of how we actually think about buildings.
There's a version of custom home building that's really just production building with better finishes. Pick your countertop, pick your cabinet profile, sign here. The bones look like every other house on the street. That's not what we're doing.
We build in the tradition of Louisiana architecture, the kind Al Jones and Hays Town spent careers getting right. Deep overhangs. Brick and plaster. Proportions that make sense when you're standing in the room, not just when you're looking at a rendering. It takes real discipline to hold that line, because the shortcuts are always right there and they always look fine on paper.
Classical architecture isn't a style you pick from a menu. It's a body of knowledge about proportion, material, and how buildings age. The ICAA is where that knowledge lives, architects, craftsmen, builders who take it seriously. We've found the membership genuinely useful. Not just professionally, but practically.
Building this way in 2025 is a choice. There are faster ways. There are cheaper ways. But the people we build for aren't buying fast or cheap. They're building something that should still be standing in a hundred years and still look like it belongs where it's built. That requires a different standard for how you work and who you learn from.
The ICAA is part of how we hold that standard.