LOUISVILLE, Ky. 鈥 A Jan. 18 symposium at the University of Louisville will examine 鈥淐rafting Space: Modernist Currents in Midcentury Architecture.鈥
he 10 a.m.-3 p.m. event, co-sponsored by the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, will be in Room 100, Bingham Humanities Building, on UofL鈥檚 Belknap Campus.
Symposium topics and speakers include:
鈥斺淢exican Architecture in the Face of European and American Currents of Modernism,鈥 Georg Leidenberger, Morgan visiting professor at UofL and modern Mexican and American history professor at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City
鈥斺淢yspace: God, Humanity and the World in Eero Saarinen鈥檚 Christian Architecture,鈥 Jeanne Halgren Kilde, religious studies director at University of Minnesota
鈥斺淣aked Airport: Aviation and the Modernist Dream,鈥 Alastair Gordon, contributing editor at The Wall Street Journal鈥檚 WSJ Magazine and editorial director at Gordon de Vries Studio
鈥斺淢asters of Architecture, Masters of Sex,鈥 Mina Marefat, Georgetown University professor and curator of the KMAC鈥檚 current exhibit, 鈥淓ero Saarinen: A Reputation for Innovation鈥
The symposium is free and public but reservations are required at by Jan. 17; there is a charge for luncheon orders with registration on the same site.
There also is a pre-symposium tour of the KMAC鈥檚 exhibition 鈥淓ero Saarinen: A Reputation for Innovation鈥 at 4 p.m. Jan. 17 at the 715 W. Main St. museum; a 5:30 p.m. Jan. 17 cocktail reception will follow another tour of the American Life Building, the 471 W. Main St. structure designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
For more information, call John Begley at 502-852-4483 or Renee Murphy at 502-852-6794.