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Architecture & Design NOW presents Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe
Erickson and Modernist Ethos
6 pm MT | November 14, 2022
Room L1060, LINC Bldg
Free admission, everyone welcome
This lecture will examine the significance of Erickson's comprehension of Modern Movement praxis and underscore his contribution to architectural culture in Canada and beyond.
Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe graduated from the Courtauld Institute and taught for the Open University, and at London and McGill Universities before joining UBC. He chaired the ISGP and then his home department, Art History Visual Art & Theory before serving as Associate Dean, Awards and Scholarships, in the Faculty of Graduate Studies; a member of Senate for several years he was twice elected co-Chair. He has published extensively on art, architectural and design history with a particular interest in related social and political culture especially of the later modern era in Canada. His study of West Coast Modernism won the Vancouver Book Prize. He was awarded a J.S Guggenheim Fellowship and a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall in Cambridge University. He is currently completing a re-assessment of the architecture and ideology of Arthur Erickson and, also with Michelangelo Sabatino, planning a multi-perspective anthology on Modernist architecture in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Images:
(1) University Hall, University of Lethbridge.
(2) Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, courtesy of the speaker.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.
Daniel Heaton’s presentation was the first in a series in this fall’s Architecture & Design NOW, dedicated to architect Arthur Erickson and the University of Lethbridge, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the official opening of University Hall and the westside campus, which took place on September 23, 1972. Heaton’s talk was followed on October 3 by a presentation by Michelangelo Sabatino, Professor of Architectural History and Cultural Heritage in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. The series marking this occasion concludes on Nov. 14 with a presentation by architectural historian, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia and co-author with Sabatino of a forthcoming book on Erickson.
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