Sunday / October 04, 2015 / 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Radical Conservatism: Classical Vocabulary, New Form
Studebaker Theater, Fine Arts Building, 410 South Michigan Avenue
Over the last one hundred years there has grown up a belief among many architects that the modern era requires a new architectural language. Proponents of this point of view have written architectural histories that would have us believe that the mainstream of modernism moves from one avant garde, or radical new movement, to another, for example from the so-called Chicago School and Frank Lloyd Wright to Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. This idea is no more logical than believing that to write modern fiction English is inadequate and some new language is necessary. The panel will examine a number of architects who believed that they could create dramatic new forms within the classical language.
Moderator: Robert Bruegmann, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, Architecture and Urban Planning at UIC
Speakers: Jane Lepauw, president, Benjamin Marshall Society
Paul Florian, FAIA Radical Ambiguity: Nicholas Hawksmoor and the Classical Tradition
John Zukowsky, Hon. AIA Benjamin H. Marshall: A Modern Architect, Classically Attired
Stuart Cohen, FAIA Howard Van Doren Shaw and the New American House
This program is part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
