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Scaffolds of Heaven: On Tigerman, a lecture by Curator Emmanuel Petit

Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM (CT)

Chicago, IL

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NOTE: RSVPS for Emmanuel Petit's Lecture are full. To join the wait list, please click HERE. Unused reservations will be released to members of the waitlist promptly at 5PM.

This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Ceci n'est pas une reveie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman.

Opening reception to follow lecture on Feb 2nd, 6-8PM.

To RSVP to the opening reception, click HERE.

Ceci n’est pas une rêverie was curated by Emmanuel Petit, Associate Professor in the Yale School of Architecture. 

Emmanuel Petit received his MA and a PhD degrees from Princeton University (2001, 2006), and an MArch from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH, 1998). He is editor of Philip Johnson: The Constancy of Change, published by Yale University Press in 2009, a project made possible in part by an institutional grant from the Graham Foundation. His essays have appeared in JSAH, Log (ANY Corporation), Thesis (Bauhaus), Trans (ETH), Thresholds (MIT), Archithese, Perspecta, and Constructs (Yale), as well as in a number of exhibition catalogues (V&A London, MAK Vienna, Vauban Luxembourg). He is guest curator of An Architect’s Legacy: James Stirling’s Students at Yale, 1959-83 and co-curator of Peter Eisenman’s exhibition Barefoot on White-Hot Walls at the Museum for Applied Art in Vienna (2004).

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Graham Foundation
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, IL 60610-1416

Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM (CT)


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Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.