PRESERVATION & ARCHITECTURE NOTES

Issue #22

January 28, 2007

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After a brief hiatus for the holidays this occasional e-mail update is back for 2007. It is sent to a list of friends of preservation and architecture.

The listings include events and opportunities in the near future. The focus is mostly on the Madison area with other items of interest in the region. There is no attempt to be exhaustive.

Please forward this message to those who may be interested. If you do not want to get these messages, just let me know by return e-mail.

Michael Bridgeman

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TALL: THE AMERICAN SKYSCRAPER AND LOUIS SULLIVAN Thursday, Feb. 1 at 7 p.m.

Monona Terrace Lecture Hall

Free

The Wright Lecture Series begins the year with a screening of a film by Manfred Kirchheimer about Sullivan, his contemporaries and the development of the tall building in America at the end of the 19th century.

http://www.mononaterrace.com/events/index.html

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CHAZEN MUSEUM ARCHITECT TO SPEAK

Thursday, Feb. 1 at 7 p.m.

Chazen Museum, 800 University Ave.

Free

UW has selected Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston to design the new building that will expand the Chazen Museum of Art. Rodolfo Machado will present a lecture; a reception precedes the event at 6 p.m.

http://www.news.wisc.edu/13366.html

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STREET QUEST

Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m.

UW Memorial Union, Fredric March Play Circle

$4

This film follows six enthusiastic people trying to find out where Madison's oldest streets are and what they were before they were streets. Local historian Stuart Levitan will speak after the film.

(no Web link)

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PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE IN WISCONSIN

Tuesdays, Feb. 13-27, at 6:30 p.m.,

Chazen Museum, 800 University Ave.

$31

Architectural historian Jim Draeger returns with three illustrated lectures about how the architecture of state institutions, county courthouses, and public libraries reflects the broader values of the culture that commissioned and constructed them.

http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/classes/history.htm

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PAY A VISIT: WISCONSIN CAPITOL

Daily tours

Madison

Free

It may be cold outside, but it’s always warm in the Wisconsin Capitol, a magnificent building design by George B. Post and completed in 1917.

http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/wisconsin_state_capitol_tour.html

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