The biennial Dissertation Colloquium brings together a select group of doctoral students from diverse institutional and disciplinary backgrounds working on dissertation topics related to the history, theory, and criticism of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape. 

The Buell Conference on the History of Architecture brings together scholars in architectural and urban history to discuss topics in architecture, urbanism, and modernity as broadly understood.

February 18-19, 1994

Roy and Niuta Titus Theater I, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

A symposium sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

 

Friday, February 18
Roy and Niuta Titus Theater I
Museum of Modern Art

7:00 Introduction
Philip Johnson, Museum of Modern Art

Keynote Address:
Neil Levine, Harvard University, "Modern Architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright: A Love-Hate Relationship in Need of Analysis"

Followed by a reception.

 

Saturday, February 19
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
Bernard Tschumi, Columbia University

9:15 - 10:30
Anthony Alofsin, University of Texas (Austin), "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Ideology of Drawing"
Response: James O'Gorman, Wellesley College

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:15
Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College, "Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminism"
Response: Kathryn Smith, Southern California Institute of Architecture

3:15 - 4:30
Kenneth Frampton, Columbia University, "The Impact of Technology on Frank Lloyd Wright"
Response: Leo Marx, MIT

Followed by a reception.