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Chicago-Midwest Chapter: American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze, a lecture with Elizabeth Meredith Dowling, Ph.D.Register Now!
Thursday, June 2, 2011; 6:00 pm
Elizabeth Meredith Dowling, Ph.D., will lecture on the American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze. In 1978 Philip Shutze was named America’s Greatest Living Classical Architect by Henry Hope Reid. But what sort of classical architect could he have been in the middle decades of a century devoted to modernism? He was a twentieth century man who felt greater kinship with the eighteenth century. His best-known work exhibits little, if any, adjustment to modernism, but some of his lesser-known structures demonstrate the serious creation of his own form of modern classicism. In the end, he could not accept the raw functional spirit of modernism, and he returned to the grandeur of his beloved tradition, and he allowed his career to terminate prematurely by years, rather than accept the demands of his clients for the new styling. Elizabeth Dowling will lead us through the works of Philip Shutze, looking not only at his best-known works, but also looking at the financial effect of the 1930s Depression on this architect’s career.
Location: The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 50 E. Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60611
Cost/Reservations: FREE for ICAA members and employees of professional member firms; $20 for the general public.