Architecture of Today & Its Thrilling Meaning for Our Lives: Frank Gehry & Shigeru Ban

Architecture of Today & Its Thrilling Meaning for Our Lives: Frank Gehry & Shigeru Ban

What makes for a beautiful building?  In this fully illustrated talk, architects Anthony Romeo and Dale Laurin speak about works by contemporary designers and architects Frank Gehry and Shigeru Ban. The speakers ask, What can we learn from a beautiful building about what we want for our own lives?  They’ll show an exciting new relation of art and life, based on this principle, stated by the great American poet and critic Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”   An exciting view of today's architecture and its relationship to our lives!                                                                                                                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. 

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