Anthony Romeo and Dale Laurin present a thrilling talk about architecture and how it affects us. Frank Gehry and Shigeru Ban—important contemporary designers originally from Canada/US and Japan—are creating some of the most innovative and exciting buildings today. What......More
Anthony Romeo and Dale Laurin present a thrilling talk about architecture and how it affects us. Frank Gehry and Shigeru Ban—important contemporary designers originally from Canada/US and Japan—are creating some of the most innovative and exciting buildings today. What makes for beauty in their work and its large meaning for our lives will be discussed by architects Anthony Romeo and Dale Laurin. Their critical basis is Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by the great poet, scholar, and educator Eli Siegel who stated, “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”As these widely esteemed speakers on architecture will show, the designs of Gehry and Ban beautifully compose the same opposites their designers needed to put together in themselves, and we all do—opposites such as coolness and warmth, inside and outside, surface and depth. And they’ll tell how practical and invaluable this knowledge has been in their work, their teaching, and their own lives—how the study of aesthetics and life, as Aesthetic Realism presents them, is the means of knowing and strengthening ourselves! Anthony Romeo and Dale Laurin are consultants on the faculty of the not-for-profit Aesthetic Realism Foundation, and architects—each with over 40 years of professional experience in design and project management. Mr. Romeo is Program Director for the Queens Library Unit at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and a Professor at CUNY's NYC College of Technology, where he teaches Architectural History, Building Technology and Introduction to Architecture. Mr. Laurin also taught at “City Tech” and was a TeamLeader in the Architecture and Engineering Unit of DDC. They both had the privilege to study Aesthetic Realism with its founder, Eli Siegel, and continue their study of this great philosophy with the Chair of Education, Ellen Reiss.
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