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Fall
Lecture Series: "Buildings and Grounds in Transition" NATIONAL ENDOWMENT
FOR THE ARTS DESIGN DIRECTOR TO SPEAK AT U.VA. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
September
11, 2001--
WHO:
Mark Robbins, director of design, National Endowment for the Arts
WHAT:
Public lecture, "Critical Practices"
WHERE:
U.Va. School of Architecture, Campbell Hall, Room 153
WHEN:
Friday, Sept. 21, 5 p.m.
Artist,
curator, author and teacher, Mark Robbins, will give a public talk
-- "Critical Practices" -- at the University of Virginia School
of Architecture on Friday, Sept. 21. Robbins will lecture on "Critical
Practices" at 5 p.m. in Campbell Hall, Room 153. Robbins, design
director at the National Endowment for the Arts, works to strengthen
the presence of design in the public realm. Trained in architecture,
anthropology and film, Robbins is on leave as an associate professor
at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University
where, from 1993 to 1999, he was curator of architecture at the
Wexner Center for the Arts. His projects explore the complex social
and political forces that contribute to the built environment. The
recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, his
work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad and is included
in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art.
Contact:
Jane Ford, (434) 924-4298
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