Design Agendas, 1: overview
I attended the exhibition opening on Friday, September 13, when Michael E. Willis and Eric P. Mumford discussed the origins and background for mounting “Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s.” I couldn’t take in everything on display with the crowd of friends and colleagues present. Recently, I’ve spent several afternoons at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum examining the show before its final day, Monday , January 6. If you’re interested in St. Louis architecture and urbanism, seeing this show is a must. Entry to the exhibit from the main hall displays a timeline of modernist buildings of note, bracketing the period with Adler & Sullivan’s Wainwright Building (1891) to Edward Larrabee Barnes’s 1010 Market Street (1981) . (Photograph by Andrew Raimist) The exhibition catalog will be available early in 2025. It can be pre-ordered online here: https://a.co/d/iQsx8X8 . The exhibition catalog can be pre-ordered online . I was fortunate to joi...
