Rethinking Frank Lloyd Wright at 150
September 13-15, 2017 |
Featuring 18 architects, critics, architectural historians and conservators, this international symposium—organized by the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art with major sponsorship support from Morgan Stanley and the Maddalena Group at Morgan Stanley—will highlight new thinking about Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture and its ongoing interest to contemporary architectural history, culture and practice. Sessions ranging from historiography to preservation to critical reception and influence will look backward and forward in time to offer a framework for reassessing the meaning of Wright’s architecture and its broad impact over the past century and a quarter. How have perceptions of his work changed and evolved? How can its effects on contemporaries be better understood? Is his architectural thought still relevant today? And how were Wright’s ideas about preservation different from those at work today? These are just some of the questions to be debated.
“At this major international symposium a varied and highly talented group of architects, architectural historians, critics, and conservationists will sidestep conventional opinion in discussing how thinking about Wright’s work has evolved over the past decades and how—and if—it can continue to shape the course of modern architecture,” says Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Research Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and chair of the symposium. “Sessions will be devoted to historiography, preservation and influence. A round table of the most significant younger critics writing today will conclude by offering perspectives on where things now stand and what issues may come into play in the future.”
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Website:
www.savewright.org/events/conservancy-events/ |
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The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1 at The Museum of Modern Art |
11 W 53rd Street
New York, NY |
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