Reborn in the USA: LeCorbusier, Modernism and the Vernacular
Lecturer: Professor Mardges Bacon, Northeastern University
When: Wednesday November 28th, 2007
Where: Ray Parker Auditorium B6

A specialist in modern and American architecture, Mardges Bacon teaches architectural and urban history. Her courses include the two-semester survey in Modern Architecture and Urbanism as well as the Seminar in Modern Architecture. Professor Bacon is the author of Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid (MIT Press, 2001) and Ernest Flagg: Beaux-Arts Architect and Urban Reformer (MIT Press, 1986), for which she received a book award from the Victorian Society of America, New York Chapter. She is both editor and author of the introduction to “Symbolic Essence” and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture by William H. Jordy, in association with the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University (Yale University Press, 2005). Professor Bacon is also the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias, as well as an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times.

Mardges Bacon has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987) as well as grants from the Whiting Foundation (2005) and Graham Foundation (1998). In 1988 she was named an Associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Professor Bacon has served as a Director of the Society of Architectural Historians. She has lectured at Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, MIT, RISD in Providence, the National Gallery of Art and the National Building Museum, both in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Trinity College and the Wadsworth Atheneum, both in Hartford.