Hosted by the New England Chapter
Come celebrate the 2020 & 2021 Bulfinch Award winners at the ICAA-NE Keynote Breakfast with two lectures focused on Classical design.
Saturday, October 2, 202110:00am - 12:30pm$40Harvard Club of Boston374 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Lecture One: "High Style, Low Morals: The State, War & Navy Building and the Second Empire Style"
Speaker: Thomas Luebke, FAIA, Secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
Towering over the White House, the colossal Eisenhower Executive Office Building exemplifies the brief but widespread phenomenon of the Second Empire style in the U.S. This sculptural, Baroque-derived architecture was inspired by Napoleon III’s reign in France; it conveys the free-wheeling commercialism of the Gilded Age, the thirst for cosmopolitan status, and the mores of Grant Administration. The building and its magnificent interiors have been restored over several decades as a remarkable witness of its era.
Lecture Two: "Are We Making Progress?"
Speaker: Prof. Carroll William Westfall Former Notre Dame Chairman of the School of Architecture
The progress that Modernism promised is increasingly blamed for the ill effects to our globe and our souls. Its dominance now obscures the human progress that the innovations to the classical have within the classical tradition. Architecture’s strengthening restoration of the classical offers evidence of that tradition’s contribution to the justice and the beautiful that we pursue.
Thomas Luebke, FAIA, has served since 2005 as Secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the federal design review agency for the nation’s capital. He has produced the publications Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (2013) and Palace of State: The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (2018). He has an M.Arch degree from Harvard University’s GSD and was awarded the AIA’s Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture in 2015.
Prof. Carroll William Westfall came to Notre Dame in 1998 as Frank Montana Professor and Chairman of the School of Architecture. He served as Chairman from 1998 to 2002. Before coming to Notre Dame, Prof. Westfall taught at Amherst College, the University of Illinois in Chicago, and, since 1982, at the University of Virginia. His undergraduate training at the University of California was followed by completion of a Master's degree at the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. His initial work led to the book, In This Most Perfect Paradise (Penn State University Press, 1974), a study of Renaissance Rome. His more recent studies of the relationship between the history, theory, and practice of architecture.
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