August 28, 2018 - Aaron Betsky Presents: “What Taliesin Teaches”
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August 28, 2018
Aaron Betsky Presents: “What Taliesin Teaches”
Greenbush, Wis. – The Wade House is celebrating the 150th birthday of world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright with a series of lectures and an exhibit focusing on Wright’s work in Wisconsin and his relationship with Sheboygan carriage collector and restoration expert Wesley W. Jung.
Join Aaron Betsky on September 13 from 7:00 – 8:30 PM at the Wade House Visitor Center to look at how Taliesin has been and continues to be a model for how to build a better place. Aaron Betsky will focus on Wright's Taliesin along with Wright's and Taliesin's influence on architecture. For more than a century, the School of Architecture at Taliesin has produced designers who have not only followed in Frank Lloyd Wright's footsteps but have developed practices whose influence reverberates around the world. Beyond the work of these apprentices, Taliesin has also served as a model for making an architecture that builds with the land, rather than on it; that is open to its surroundings while sheltering its occupants; that shows how structure and form can frame our social relations; and that shows how we can create a community of makers.
Betsky is a critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer of texts about architecture and design, along with serving as the dean of the School of Architecture at Taliesin (formerly known as the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture). Betsky has also served as the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, director of the 11th Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has taught at Cal Poly Pomon and the University of Cincinnati, and has worked as a designer for Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung. He has written and contributed to over three dozen books, including "Architecture Matters (2017)," "False Flat (2014)," and his newest addition, "Building Urban Landscapes: The Work of Andrew Bromberg (2018)."
The Wade House lecture series will take place at the Wade House Visitor Center located at W7965 Hwy. 23 in Greenbush, WI, halfway between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac. Admission to the “What Taliesin Teaches” lecture on September 13 is $5.00 per person. Wisconsin Historical Society members receive free admission.
About Wade House
The Wade House historic site is one of 12 Wisconsin Historical Society historic sites and museums. For more information, please call 920-526-3271 or visit www.wadehouse.org.
About Wisconsin Historical Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society, founded in 1846, ranks as one of the largest, most active and most diversified state historical societies in the nation. As both a state agency and a private membership organization, its mission is to help people connect to the past by collecting, preserving and sharing stories. The Wisconsin Historical Society serves millions of people every year through a wide range of sites, programs and services. For more information, visitwww.wisconsinhistory.org.
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