I will present “Ethical Society Building 50th Anniversary Celebration:
Reflections on Harris Armstrong’s Design” shedding light on the architect’s
creative processand
the Society’s journey from its original St. Louis City home in the
Sheldon Memorial to the current iconic mid-century modern structure on Clayton
Road in 1965.
Preliminary design and models will be presented as well as the evolution towardits ultimate form. Armstrong's other designs for religious structures will be discussed as well as significant modernist religious structures designed by his contemporaries.
Tonight, Thursday, April 16 there are three items of architectural interest taking place at the Saint Louis Public Library's Central Branch, 1301 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63103. Phone: (314) 241-2288. 1 Steedman Architectural Library
Visit the Steedman Architectural Library. The room will be open for tours from 6pm to 6:30pm prior to the lecture. This room features rare and beautiful books on architecture and the related arts. It was a gift from George Fox Steedman and the room itself is a work of art. Here are some of my photographs of the room:
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2 Architecture Lecture Series
From the library's website:
This month’s lecture in the Architecture Around the World Series, presented by the Steedman Architectural Library and the Society of Architectural Historians, will feature Paul Hohmann, architect at E+A Architecture and blogger at Vanishing STL, as he discusses “From Abbeys to Street Art – Germany and Austria along the Danube.” The program takes place in Central’s Carnegie Room onApril 16 at 6:30 p.m.
From 6 to 6:30pm, visitors can step inside and view one of Central’s most special rooms, the Steedman Architectural Library. The group will then move to the Carnegie Room for Paul Hohmann’s lecture.
From some of the Steedman Collection’s most important and beautiful items will be on public display in Central Library’s Great Hall. The exhibit affords the general public a rare chance to view truly important materials and learn more about them. This exhibit will be closing in May 2015.
On Thursday, April 14, 2015, Andrew Raimist, AIA and John Guenther, FAIA will be leading a bus tour of significant works of MCM architecture at the conclusion of the Mid-Century Modern Structures symposium sponsored by the National Park Service taking place this week in downtown St. Louis.
The tour highlights significant Mid-Century
Modern buildings by outstanding architects
of the period for a variety of project types
including commercial, residential and religious structures located around the St. Louis
metropolitan area.
We’ll visit an immaculately restored Usonian
house by Frank Lloyd Wright (exterior tour)
and a thinshell, parabolic folded-plate
concrete church designed by Gyo Obata,
FAIA (HOK). We will then drive by a meeting house for the non-denominational Ethical Society by local modernist Harris Armstrong, FAIA, the B’nai Amoona Synagogue
(now COCA) by legendary modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn and two structures
by local modernist leader Isadore Shank
framing the early and high period of MCM
architecture.