ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NETWORK presents FRANK ......Shannon’s talk is “Frank Lloyd Wright’s...

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Jeff Shannon Professor & Former Dean University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture Jeff Shannon, currently a professor at and former dean of the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture, will be the first speaker in Architecture and Design Network’s 14/15 lecture series. The title of Shannon’s talk is “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House: a New Perspective”. The Robie House, now a museum, was built on what was then the then edge of the University of Chicago campus. His lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsors of the series inlcude the Arkansas Arts Center, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and the Central Arkansas chapter of the American Institue of Architects. For additional information, contact [email protected]. DATE: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 TIME: 6:00 p.m., preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m. PLACE: Arkansas Arts Center lecture hall a lecture by “Completed in 1910, the house Wright designed for Frederick C. Robie is the consummate expression of his Prairie style. The house is conceived as an integral whole—site and structure, interior and exterior, furniture, ornament and architecture, each element is connected. Unrelentingly horizontal in its elevation and a dynamic configuration of sliding planes in its plan, the Robie House is the most innovative and forward thinking of all Wright’s Prairie houses.” FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NETWORK presents ROBIE HOUSE: A NEW PERSPECTIVE

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Jeff Shannon Professor & Former Dean University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture

Jeff Shannon, currently a professor at and former dean of the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture, will be the first speaker in Architecture and Design Network’s 14/15 lecture series. The title of Shannon’s talk is “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House: a New Perspective”. The Robie House, now a museum, was built on what was then the then edge of the University of Chicago campus.

His lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsors of the series inlcude the Arkansas Arts Center, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and the Central Arkansas chapter of the American Institue of Architects. For additional information, contact [email protected].

DATE: Tuesday, September 30, 2014

TIME: 6:00 p.m., preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m.

PLACE: Arkansas Arts Center lecture hall

a lecture by“Completed in 1910, the house Wright designed for Frederick C. Robie is the consummate expression of his Prairie style. The house is conceived as an integral whole—site and structure, interior and exterior, furniture, ornament and architecture, each element is connected. Unrelentingly horizontal in its elevation and a dynamic configuration of sliding planes in its plan, the Robie House is the most innovative and forward thinking of all Wright’s Prairie houses.”

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’SARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NETWORK presents

ROBIE HOUSE:A NEW PERSPECTIVE