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Public Programs
Curator's Lecture Series - Architecture and Design
This year’s Curator’s Lecture Series explores architecture and design. Watch for three more lectures in fall 2008. FREE
Frank Lloyd Wright with Randall LeCocq
Wed • May 21 • 6:30pm
Using slides, Randall LeCocq will examine Wright’s “organic” architecture as it evolved through his main phases: Prairie House, California Romanza, Fallingwater, and Usonia. LeCocq will discuss Wright’s philosophy of keeping man in touch with nature, showing how it differed from the “machine aesthetic” of the European modernists.
European Modernists with Randall LeCocq
Wed • May 28 • 6:30pm
An introduction to the modernist movement in European architecture, starting with the early 20th Century Art Nouveau movements, the Vienna Secession, and the more functional Dutch de Stijl and German “New Objectivity” movements. Using slides, LeCocq will examine the works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Otto Wagner, Joseph Hoffman, Adolf Loos, Auguste Perret, Peter Behrens, and others. We will see how these set the stage for the International Style of Mies, Corbusier, and Gropius.
Randall LeCocq received a Master’s degree in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 2004, completing his thesis comparing the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the European modernists. He taught courses on Wright and the Europeans at the University of New Mexico School for Continuing Education in 2005-2006, prior to moving to Montana. He has visited more than 40 Frank Lloyd homes and public buildings.
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