Roy A Lippincott: the Architect of the Tower
Written by
Christopher Vernon
will be speaking on
Roy Alstan Lippincott: From the Prairies to the Antipodes
Thursday 29 April at 7:30 pm
in the APEC room at Auckland Museum
entry via East Door
In this slide-illustrated lecture, Vernon will explore Lippincott's American and Australian design experiences.
In his survey of Lippincott's work with Walter and Marion Mahony Griffin in the United States and Australia, Vernon emphasises the cross-cultural transfer of design ideals from the prairies to the antipodes.Christopher Vernon
will be speaking on
Roy Alstan Lippincott: From the Prairies to the Antipodes
Thursday 29 April at 7:30 pm
in the APEC room at Auckland Museum
entry via East Door
In this slide-illustrated lecture, Vernon will explore Lippincott's American and Australian design experiences.
In his survey of Lippincott's work with Walter and Marion Mahony Griffin in the United States and Australia, Vernon emphasises the cross-cultural transfer of design ideals from the prairies to the antipodes.Vernon's lecture draws upon and enlarges his essay included in the catalogue accompanying Roy A Lippincott: the Architect of the Tower.
CHRISTOPHER VERNON is Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts at the University of
Western Australia and Design Advisor to the Commonwealth of Australia's National Capital Authority.
He has lectured and published widely on Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin's work, most notably their prize-winning design of Australia's national capital city Canberra. More recently he contributed a chapter on Canberra to Routledge's forthcoming book Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities (David L A Gordon, ed).
Vernon also is a co-founding editor of the journal National Identities (London: Taylor and Francis).
Christopher Vernon is brought to New Zealand courtesy of the University of Auckland and UNITEC.
The exhibition is generously supported by AGM Publishing, Auckland.
The Architect of the Tower is on display from 5 February until 9 May 2004 in the Decorative Arts East Gallery.