| WHAT: | On Wednesday, Parsons The New School for Design will present the third in the season’s At the Parsons Table, when visionary architect and designer Michael Graves joins Parsons Dean Paul Goldberger for a lively discussion that will address some of the most topical issues in the field. Presented before a live audience at The New School’s historic Tishman Auditorium, At the Parsons Table features today’s leading voices in the fields of art, architecture, and design in conversation with Dean Goldberger, one of the nation’s preeminent architecture and design critics. In addition to Graves, this season’s series has featured Chuck Close and Bruce Mau. The final evening of the season will feature Donna Karan on April 20. |
| WHEN: | Wednesday, March 8, 6:30 p.m. |
| WHERE: | Tishman Auditorium, The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York |
| TICKET INFO: | Tickets are $15 for the general public, and are available via the New School Box Office, 66 West 12th Street, [email protected] or 212-229-5488. Box office hours are Mon.–Thurs. 1-8 pm, Fri. 1-7 p.m. Advance ticketing is strongly advised. |
| BIO: | American architect Michael Graves has been in the forefront of architectural design since he founded his practice in 1964. He has taught at Princeton University for almost 40 years, and is an influential theorist as well as a diversified and prolific designer. Since the early 1980s, his work directly influenced the transformation of urban architecture from the abstraction of commercial modernism toward an interest in context. Graves has been the recipient of several of the most prestigious awards ever conferred upon architects in the United States. These include the 2001 Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, the 1999 National Medal of Arts (a Presidential Award), and the $50,000 Frank Annunzio Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation. Graves has designed a wide range of furnishings and artifacts, from furniture and lighting fixtures to jewelry and dinnerware, for companies such as Alessi, Steuben, and Disney, Phillips Electronics and Black & Decker. He has teamed with Target Stores to bring his signature style of design to a larger public in a wide variety of product categories. For the German partnership of Duravit, Dornbracht and Hoesch, he has created “Dreamscape,” a bath fixtures and fittings collection, and for the Italian hardware manufacturer Valli & Valli, a series of door handles in various metals. |
| ABOUT: | On February 9 and 10, Social Research, a prominent journal of opinion and social science based at The New School for Social Research, will host “Politics and Science: How Their Interplay Creates Public Policy,” a two day conference featuring leading figures from the political and scientific communities in candid dialogue about public health, the environment, and energy. Participants will examine the increasing politicization of science in the United States and the nexus of interests currently determining our government policy. |
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