On Saturday, Oregonian architecture critic Randy Gragg, will deliver an Oregon Council of Humanities-sponsored lecture that figures to offer a smorgasbord of food-for-thought. It’s called “Against Nostalgia: The roots of a new direction for architecture and planning in Oregon”. Gragg recently returned to the paper after a yearlong sabbatical as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Time to flex some newly buff scholarly and oratory muscles.
As the OCH puts it in their very-handy press release, Randy “contends that many of the state’s conflicts regarding art, architecture, and planning are rooted in efforts to merely preserve the past rather than build on it. ‘Preservation is an easy argument,’ he says. ‘Articulating a theory of change is much harder. By holding on so hard to the past, I believe we, as a region, risk becoming victims of the future.’”
The lecture is Saturday, February 24 at 5PM […]
Published by Brian Libby
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