Saturday 25 June 2016

Modernism Made Monumental, University of Georgia

I am excited and honoured to announce that I will be giving a paper at the Modernism Made Monumental symposium at the University of Georgia this coming October in conjunction with the exhibition "Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883–1950", on view at the Georgia Museum of Art September 17–December 11, 2016.

https://georgiamuseum.org/art/exhibitions/upcoming/icon-of-modernism-representing-the-brooklyn-bridge-18831950

My paper will discuss the potential for horizontal buildings to be monumental within modernism and will do so by looking at two buildings by Mies van der Rohe: the Farnsworth House (built in 1951) in Plano, Illinois and the Seagram building, a New York skyscraper (1958).


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