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Location: United States Online via ZoomWebsite: https://victoriansociety.org
Join the Victorian Society for the next lecture in our FREE online series! This Saturday, January 18th at 3pm ET, Timothy Wittman will be speaking on "Louis Sullivan and Nature in Architecture."
About the lecture:
From childhood, Louis Sullivan was fascinated with organic forms in Nature. His development as an architect and theorist was a unique synthesis of many influences of his time, including the work of other designers such as Christopher Dresser and Henry Hobson Richardson, by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and by biologist Charles Darwin. For so many creative people concerned with the increasing isolation from Nature that accompanied life in the Industrial Age, it was essential to use their art forms to keep us in touch with the healing and balancing forces of the natural world. Sullivan in particular embodied this concern, and his work demonstrated the influence of Nature in connection with, rather than separate from, the age of industry. This presentation will examine Sullivan's theories and the ways they were manifest in his buildings, and introduce the impact his work had on his apprentices and followers. Timothy Wittman is a professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
