Craig Zabel to Present 'The American Skyscraper' Lecture on March 9 in Little Rock
Craig Zabel will present the lecture "The American Skyscraper" Thursday at the Fine Arts Building on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus. This is part of the 2016-17 June Freeman Lecture Series sponsored by the Architecture and Design Network.
LITTLE ROCK – Craig Zabel will present a lecture titled "The American Skyscraper: From the Emerald City of Oz to Glass Towers of the 1950s" at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 9, at the Fine Arts Building on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus. The lecture will be presented in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, following a 5:15 p.m. reception.
Zabel is an associate professor of art history at the Pennsylvania State University, where he's taught since 1985 and chaired the Department of Art History since 1996.
He is a scholar of modern architecture whose recent publications include "George Grant Elmslie and the Glory and Burden of the Sullivan Legacy" in The Midwest in American Architecture (University of Illinois Press) and "William Penn's Philadelphia: The Land and the Plan" in Nature's Entrepôt: Philadelphia's Urban Sphere and its Environmental Thresholds (University of Illinois Press). He is co-editor of American Public Architecture: European Roots and Native Expressions (Penn State University Press).
The 2016-17 June Freeman Lecture Series is sponsored by the Architecture and Design Network with support from the Arkansas Arts Center, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, the Central Arkansas section of the Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and community members. In addition, this lecture is co-hosted by the UALR Department of Art and Design.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and no reservations are needed. For more information about this and other ADN programs, contact jonathan@amr-architects.com.
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Michelle Parks, director of communications
Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design
479-575-4704,
mparks17@uark.edu
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