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2024 Annual Swanson Public Lecture: Flores & Prats Arqchitects
Join us on Thursday, January 25 for the 2024 Annual Swanson Lecture. This year’s lecture will be presented by Flores & Prats Arqchitects. The lecture will be held in deSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Art Museum and is free and open to the public.
According to Flores & Prats, it is not only people that contain the memory of a place, the buildings too are loaded with memories of the uses and lives that occupy them; the built fabric is a reflection of social behaviour. It speaks of a way of using the ground, the sky, as a way of inhabiting. To read the memory held in buildings and people is to think about a future that counts on that past.
The annual Swanson lecture is sponsored by the J. Robert F. Swanson Fund.
The J. Robert F. Swanson Lecture Fund at Cranbrook Academy of Art was established in 1983 by the family of J. Robert F. Swanson, a noted architect who was also the son-in-law of Eliel Saarinen. Each year, the Swanson Lecture brings to the Cranbrook campus architects, designers, artists, or scholars who have received critical acclaim for their work and enjoy a sustained record of excellence and achievement in their respective fields. J. Robert F. Swanson and his wife and lifelong design partner, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson, founded their firm Swanson Associates in 1947 and worked on many exteriors and interiors, including residences, schools, universities, churches, airports, banks, government, industrial and commercial projects.
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