Marcel Breuer/Central Atlanta Library: Isabelle Hyman Lecture in Atlanta

MARCEL BREUER'S ARCHITECTURE IN THE HEYDAY OF MODERNISM:

THE IMPORTANCE OF MARCEL BREUER AT MID-CENTURY

Isabelle Hyman

DATE: October 28, 2008

TIME: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

LOCATION: Georgia Tech Architecture Library

FEES: none

EVENT CONTACT:
Teri Nagel, College of Architecture
Contact Teri Nagel
404-385-2156

At a public lecture co-sponsored by the Georgia Chapter of DOCOMOMO and Georgia Tech College of Architecture, Isabelle Hyman will explore the 28-year-old Central Library of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library System designed by Marcel Breuer.

Hyman is Professor Emerita of the Department of Art History at New York University. An accomplished historian of art and architecture, she has published a number of works on Marcel Breuer, a preeminent figure of the modern movement, including the important reference, MARCEL BREUER, ARCHITECT: THE CAREER AND THE BUILDINGS.

Hyman was educated at Vassar College and Columbia, and received her PhD in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. Most recently, she received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for “most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture” by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Details: http://www.coa.gatech.edu/news/event.php?id=3424

or, send a message to: 2008@docomomoga.org

AIA Continuing Education available from Georgia Tech.

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Comment by rafael marxuach on October 21, 2008 at 10:20pm

Will love to be there, Breuer is one of my favorites specially his residential work. Is too bad Georgia is out of reach for those dates.