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2007 Fall Lecture Series Presented by
The Westcott House Foundation

The Westcott House Foundation’s Lecture Series are for the benefit of our members, community and public-at-large. We hope to inspire and encourage students and adults to gain a greater understanding and appreciation for the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and design process thinking.

“Chairs, Fashion, and Advertisements: The Influence of Design on Children”
Friday, September 21, 2007, 7:00-8:15p.m.
Robin Vande Zande, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Art Education, Kent State University

The interdisciplinary study of design should be a significant part of our education system. Design envelops us, influences us, enables or challenges us, because it is the products and systems we rely on to satisfy our needs and accomplish our intentions. To gain an idea of how extensively design affects life, the four broad categories of design would provide the underpinnings of study: communication, environment, object, and experience. Robin Vande Zande will talk about the benefits of design education, touching on brain-based learning principles, social responsibility, economic issues, aesthetics and the design process of problem solving.

Lecture and Book-signing: “How to Work with an Architect”
Thursday, October 18, 2007, 7:00-8:15p.m.
Gerald Lee Morosco, AIA, Gerald Lee Morosco Architects, PC; Chairman of Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona

Gerald Lee Morosco, AIA, is a nationally known architect, writer and lecturer who apprenticed in architecture at Taliesin and serves currently as chairman of the Scottsdale, Arizona based Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. “At Taliesin, I came to appreciate the value of maintaining a beautiful environment in which to live and work and first came to understand the essential importance of cultivating and sustaining an effective working relationship with one’s clients” states Morosco.

The prospect of working with an architect can be daunting. Morosco will pass along his understanding, gained through more than two decades of work in residential architecture, and reveal the essential criteria for a successful architect/client relationship through a discussion of the collaboration process.

“Beyond Wright’s Shadow: Organic Architecture and the Postwar House”
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 7:00-8:15p.m.
Monica Penick, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

In “Beyond Wright’s Shadow: Organic Architecture and the Postwar House,” Penick explores the legacy of Wright’s organic design in the two decades that followed World War II. Ms. Penick will examine Wright’s Usonian houses, and their impact on the middle-class American home, as evidenced in the work of the little-known but significant second generation of organic architects, including John deKoven Hill (designer of the Corbett House, Cincinnati), and Alfred Browning Parker.

Location: Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, Wittenberg University (corner of Bill Edwards Drive & Plum Street)

Free admission

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