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College of Environmental Design
University of California, Berkeley
Wurster Hall, Rooms 110 & 112
Berkeley, CA 94720-1820

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$10.00 lecture only, free for students with UCB ID
$100.00 for lecture, reception, and silent auction

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6:00 - 7:00PM LECTURE
7:00 - 8:30PM RECEPTION/SILENT AUCTION

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510.642.5124
Designarchives@berkeley.edu
archives.ced.berkeley.edu

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Exceptional Expositions Presentation at UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design

Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley
Sep 17, 06:00PM – 08:30PM

6:00 – 7:00PM LECTURE, WURSTER RM 112
$10.00 at door or purchase online for lecture only, free for students with UCB ID

7:00 – 8:30PM RECEPTION/SILENT AUCTION, WURSTER RM 110
$100.00 purchase in advance online for lecture, reception, and silent auction

In conjunction with opening of Exceptional Expositions the Environmental Design Archives will host a program of presentations by Architectural Historian Dan Gregory and CED Assoc. Professor Andrew Shanken.

Gregory’s talk “Fire Up the Scintillator!: Architecture, Allusion, and Re-Affirmation at the PPIE,” concerns the hyperbolic architectural character of the exposition — from the 435 foot-tall Tower of Jewels covered in 100,000 cut glass “Novagems” to the Oregon State Pavilion treated as a redwood tree-replica of the Parthenon.

Shanken, author of the recently published monograph Into the Void Pacific will give a talk entitled “Very Empty, But Not False: the Architecture of the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair” addressing the ways the architects of the GGIE felt Californian, thought regionally, and aspired to a “Pacific Architecture” just as modernism was radically changing the aesthetic of design.

This will be followed by a book signing of Shanken’s monograph on the Golden Gate International Exposition.  Books will be available for purchase at the event.

The lecture will be followed by a reception and silent auction in the Wurster Gallery. Original drawings donated by designers, prints of material held by the Archives, and photographs by Jason Miler will be available for bidding.

Proceeds support the mission of the Environmental Design Archives. The Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley, is a tax-exempt, 501(c) 3 public benefit organization. Tax ID#: 946090626

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