"MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS" CONFERENCE TO BE HELD OCT. 3-5

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 26 --The University of Virginia
School of Architecture's Department of Architectural History will
sponsor its ninth annual conference Oct 3-5 at U.Va.  This year's
theme will be "Monuments and Memorials."
	This important conference will bring together historians,
designers and experts from a variety of disciplines to discuss the
significance of monuments and memorials in a historical perspective
as well as their relevance today.
	"This is an exciting opportunity to look at some of the
recently designed monuments and memorials and consider them and
earlier monuments in the perspective of how these structures reflect
the values and cultures of the society in which they were created,"
said Richard Guy Wilson, U.Va. Commonwealth Professor of
Architectural History and chair of the conference.  "Today, public
monuments and memorials are perhaps more controversial than they
have ever been in American culture.  The disputes over the siting of
the Arthur Ash Monument in Richmond and the Old Pioneers Monument in
San Francisco are testaments to that." 
	The conference will convene with a panel discussion by award
winning designers including Rodolfo Machado of Machado-Silvetti
Associates of Boston, who designed the recently completed Liberty
State Park Memorial; Kent Cooper and William Lecky of Cooper-Lecky
Architects of Washington, D.C., who were associate architects on the
Vietnam Memorial and the recent Korean Memorial; and Marion Weiss
and Michael Manfredi of Weiss-Manfredi Architects of New York, who
designed the Women in the Military Service Memorial, now under
construction in Arlington National Cemetery.  They are finalists in
the design competition for the World War II Memorial which will be
located on the east end of the Mall in Washington, D.C.
	Other speakers include U.Va. faculty members and graduate
students from landscape architecture, architectural history and the
history department as well as professionals and academics from other
institutions.
	A bus tour to Richmond to view Monument Avenue and other
monuments will conclude the conference. 
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September 25, 1996

	Reporters:  A conference schedule is below.  For more
information, please call the School of Architecture, Department of
Architectural History, (804) 924-1428.  Television reporters should
call our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.