Online lecture: "Frank Furness and the Architecture of Motion"
United States
Victorian Society in America's Online Lecture Series
Join us this Sunday, February 5th at 3pm ET for a live online lecture by Michael J. Lewis on "Frank Furness and the Architecture of Motion." All lectures are FREE with online registration.
The Victorian Society in America invites you to join us for our next FREE online lecture, this Sunday, February 5th at 3pm ET* when architectural historian Michael J. Lewis will be speaking on "Frank Furness and the Architecture of Motion."
About the lecture:
Frank Furness, that Civil War cavalry hero and Victorian prodigy, designed more railroad buildings than any other American architect. He worked in turn for the Reading Railroad, B&O Railroad, and the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad – three of the railroads on the Monopoly game board. But besides depots and terminals, he designed railroad cars, ferryboats, and even the interior of luxury ocean liners, all of which are objects that move and vibrate. This talk looks at the imaginative way that he reconciled the various physical and symbolic issues in creating what might be called an architecture of motion. Michael J. Lewis is a professor of art at Williams College and the architecture critic of the Wall Street Journal.
To register, please go to: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FKDJI9WQRrK-yrVq-54cwg
All lectures in this series are FREE with online registration. They are also recorded, and made available for viewing for two weeks following the live presentation. Please visit https://victoriansociety.org/lectures-3/ for more information and for links to past recordings.
*Due to a technical mishap on the original date for this lecture, it was rescheduled for February 5th.