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An event enjoyed by many will return to the 28th annual ARLIS/NA
conference in Pittsburgh that will be held from March 16-22, 2000.
The luncheon will follow the annual membership meeting which will
convene from 11:15 am - 12:30 pm on Monday, March 20, 2000. The
luncheon, scheduled from 12:30-2:15pm the same afternoon will feature
keynote speaker, Dr. Franklin Toker, who will present a paper entitled
"Two Fallingwaters: One Over Bear Run, The Other in Libraries and
Archives."
President Emeritus of the Society of Architectural Historians, Franklin
Toker is a Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the
University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches urban history and the history
of Medieval and American architecture. For six years Dr. Toker directed
archaeological excavations below the Cathedral of Florence, and later
served as visiting professor at the universities of Rome, Flornece, and
Reggio Calabria. He holds degrees from McGill University (Montreal,
Quebec), Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio), and Harvard University.
Dr. Toker's books include "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait" (1986, 1995)
and "The Church of Notre-Dame in Montreal (1970, 1981, 1991), winner of
the Hitchcock Award as the mot distinguished new book on the history of
architecture. In 1980 his article on Florence Cathedral in the "Art
Bulletin" won the Porter Prize for the best essay on any branch of art.
Dr. Toker hsa been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, New Jersey; a Guggenheim Fellow; and a Senior Fellow of the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Prof. Toker frequently lectures on architectural and urban topics to
national and international audiences, which have included India, China,
and Japan. He actively pursues research in Italy as well as in the
United States: in 1989 he was the first non-Italian called to teach art
history at the University of Florence. He is working concurrently on a
four-volume archaeological history of Early Medieval Florence, and on a
book entitled "FALLINGWATER RISING: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, E.J. KAUFMANN,
AND THE HOUSE OF THE MILLENNIUM," which he (and others) hoe to see
published next year.
Please join us for what will be an enlightening and provocative paper by
one of America's preeminent architectural historians!
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