Modernism in Louisiana Symposium
October 10 | LSU Design Building Auditorium, Baton Rouge
The symposium explores the Modernist movement of architecture and landscape architecture in Louisiana and includes presentations on the following topics: European influences on early Modernist architects in Louisiana; Growing-up in an iconic Modernist house in Hammond; How "landscape modernism" came to LSU's nascent program in landscape architecture; Special concerns on preserving Modernist structures; and the importance of modern architecture in a state that values it design heritage.
"Modernism in Louisiana" coincides with The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley, TCLF's traveling photographic exhibition about the life and career of one of the significant and influential Modernist landscape architects of the 20th century, on view at the LSU Student Union Art Gallery October 9- December 16, 2015.
Speakers include:
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keynote presentation by Karen Kingsley, PhD, professor emerita, Tulane University—coauthor of The Modernist Architecture of Samuel G. and William B. Wiener (forthcoming from LSU Press 2016) and author of Buildings of Louisiana (Oxford University Press, 2003);
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Michael Desmond, PhD, professor, LSU School of Architecture—author of The Architecture of LSU (LSU Press, 2013);
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Max Conrad, professor, LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture—author of Landscape Architecture and New Orleans: Room for Only One?;
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Andrew Ferrell, chief of the Architecture and Engineering Program, National Park Service’s National Center for Preservation Training and Technology, Natchitoches; and
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John Stubbs, Fabrot Senior Professor Practice and director of preservation studies program, Tulane University School of Architecture.
Register now and find out more at LSU College of Art & Design.