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| title: | The Architectural Ethics of Frank Furness |
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| date: | 3/26/2010 |
| time: | 5:30 reception; 6:00 pm - 7:30 program and book signing |
| location: | Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia |
| organization: | American Philosophical Society |
| cost: | Complimentary |
| registration: | Required - Register Online |
| contact: | Sandra Duffy |
| email: | sduffy@amphilsoc.org |
A lecture, reception, and book signing by Michael J. Lewis who is Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams College. In 2008 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his study of Utopian societies. This lecture will show how Furness' architecture rested on a rich and complex ethical basis, which was shaped by the transcendentalist philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and which Furness passed on to his pupil Louis Sullivan. There is no charge for this lecture.
