Thursday / July 28, 2016 / 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Gates of Harvard Yard with Blair Kamin
AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250
Enter Harvard Yard with Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, editor and one of eleven authors in the recently published Gates of Harvard Yard.
Offering the complete, never-before-told story of the twenty-five gates that form portals to Harvard Yard, this beautiful gift book recounts the aesthetic vision for America’s preeminent university, developed by renowned architecture firm McKim, Mead & White.
The book discusses the architectural intentions of the gates, as well as the human drama behind their fruition --- tales of wealth, power, and institutional and personal ambition. Illustrated with previously unpublished sketches by Roger Erickson, architect and landscape architect; stunning color photographs of each gate by Ralph Lieberman; and a beautiful hand-drawn three-dimensional aerial map of Harvard Yard that denotes the location of each gate by RISD graduate student Christopher Beck. Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of the Niemann Foundation at Harvard University and formerly of the Chicago Tribune, wrote the foreword.
Blair's previous books include two collections of his columns: Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago and Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age.
Books will be available for purchase at a special event price of $14 per copy plus sales tax (retail price is $15.95 plus tax), and Blair will sign them for you.
Bring your lunch; beverages provided.
‘Gates of Harvard Yard’ Reveals Chicago Connection - Chicago Tonight (WTTW), June 30, 2016
