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F.C. Bogk House,
Milwaukee, WI
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1916 |
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Anthony Alofsin
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Featuring
conversation and remarks about the Bogk House by special guest:
Anthony Alofsin, Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor
in Architecture, Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Texas
at Austin School of Architecture. Dr. Alofsin is an
internationally recognized authority on the architecture of
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Dr. Alofsin's pioneering study, Frank Lloyd Wright: the Lost
Years, 1910-1922, is acknowledged to be one of the most
important books on Wright in the last forty years and his
five-volume reference work, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Index to
the Taliesin Correspondence, won the Vasari Award from the
Dallas Museum of Art.
Dr. Alofsin was the consulting curator for the major
retrospective "Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect" at the
Museum
of Modern Art in New York. He curated Prairie Skyscraper on
Wright's Price
Tower
in Bartlesville,
Oklahoma, and the exhibition "Wright's Wasmuth
Folios: Representing the Ideal," at the
Ross Gallery,
Columbia University.
In 2006, Dr. Alofsin received the Wright Spirit Award, the
highest honor given by from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building
Conservancy, in recognition of his significant contributions to
the study of Frank Lloyd Wright
Copies of Frank Lloyd Wright: the Lost Years, 1910-1922,
will be available for purchase and signing at the event. The
evening is a benefit for Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin.
Attendance is limited. Reservations are required. For
reservations call 608-287-0339
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