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Scholars Series: Grant Hildebrand

Wednesday April 16, 2003
Noon luncheon at Four Seasons/Olympic Hotel, Seattle

Grant Hildebrand (BArch, MArch University of Michigan), Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Architecture and Art History and Adjunct Professor of the School of Drama at the University of Washington, has taught courses in American Utilitarian Architecture, Aesthetics and Evolution, Puget Sound Towns and Buildings, and the Gothic. A recipient of the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, the Chettle Fellowship at the University of Sydney, Australia, and lectured in professional and university settings worldwide.

Professor Hildebrand's productive scholarly career has focused his observation and thought on the effects of architecture, as seen in a variety of historical and regional references. His publications include Origins of Architectural Pleasure (University of California Press, 1999); The Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses (University of Washington Press, 1991); Designing for Industry: The Architecture of Albert Kahn (MIT Press, 1974);as well as articles and chapters in several books, a PBS series Architecture and Yankee Ingenuity, and numerous other articles and papers. With T. William Booth, he has recently completed a manuscript, A Thriving Modernism: The Houses of Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom, slated for publication in 2004 by University of Washington Press.

We urge Fellows/Honors Council members to bring young architects and colleagues as their guests, to share the inspiration and experience of this presentation.

Cordially,

Roger Williams FAIA
President, Fellows/Honors Council

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