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Edward Dimendberg speaks on Mies van der Rohe and the moving image

by SAH News | Mar 27, 2013
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art presents the eighth season of the Urban Field Speakers Series, and scholar Edward Dimendberg will take the floor along with Will Straw on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 7:30pm at the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in Toronto.

Dimendberg will speak about Mies van der Rohe and the moving image, addressing the architect’s relation to cinema and analyzing the continued attraction of his work to film and video makers, including David Cronenberg. His lecture will be followed by a book signing for Diller, Scofidio and Renfro: Architecture After Images, newly released from the University of Chicago Press. The lecture is moderated by Will Straw, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

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