Architect Dan Wheeler to Present 'Evolutions and Assemblies' Lecture on Feb. 11

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Orchard East residence in Chicago. (Photo courtesy Wheeler Kearns Architects)

Architect Dan Wheeler will present a lecture titled “Evolutions and Assemblies: in Life, in Practice” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, at Hembree Auditorium (Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E) on the University of Arkansas campus.

Wheeler is the founding principal of Wheeler Kearns Architects in Chicago and is a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Wheeler received his education at the Rhode Island School of Design, including two years of study in Rome. Prior to establishing his firm, he was an associate and studio head at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Chicago (1981-87).

He is the recipient of the CCAIA Young Architect Award (1985), AIA Fellowship (1998) and the Chicago Tribune’s “Chicagoan of the Year” in Architecture (2008). He has served as interim director of The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the UIC School of Architecture, and has been a consulting architect/educator to the Rural Studio since 2002.

The public is invited to attend this lecture, which is presented by the Fay Jones School of Architecture. This is the Lewis Architects Engineers Lecture.

Admission is free, with limited seating. For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.