Professor Diane Lewis in The Great Hall of The Cooper Union

Professor Diane Lewis in The Great Hall of The Cooper Union on Friday 25 April 2008 at 6:30PM The architectural monograph, DIANE LEWIS: INSIDE-OUT ARCHITECTURE NEW YORK CITY, spans the years since Picasso's Guernica was sent back to Spain by the Museum of Modern Art. The absence of Guernica as center piece of the collection may be seen to have removed the anti-war resistant, anti-fascist connection to abstraction and spawned the onslaught of an amnesiac modern-'ism' that had never existed in New York before. The panel consists of architects, artists, and writers who have a continuity with the ideologic roots of abstraction and the questions it raises for the city as art-work today, each of which has a new book of work that however subtle, may be related to this question. Diane Lewis assembled this panel as a celebration of her 25th year as Professor of Architecture at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, where she was invited to teach in 1982 by John Hejduk. The panel consists of: Diane Lewis, INSIDE-OUT ARCHITECTURE NEW YORK CITY Dennis Adams, DOUBLE FEATURE Beatriz Colomina, DOMESTICITY AT WAR Anthony McCall, ELEMENTS FOR A RETROSPECTIVE 1972-1979/2003- Dan Sherer, INTERPRETING THE RENAISSANCE: PRINCES, CITIES, ARCHITECTS Anthony Vidler, HISTORIES OF THE IMMEDIATE PRESENT: INVENTING ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM This event is free and open to the public.