Events / Fluid Campus Events

Spring 2008
CAC.C sponsors "Timeless or Of It’s Time?" lecture series.

For as long as it has had a sense of its own past, Charleston has been debating the appropriateness of design for historic places: should it hold to the grand traditions of the past or should it make new contributions to those traditions? What is often presented as a clear choice may, in fact, be more ambiguous: "In short, the only rule common to all… canonical work, so endlessly discussed, [is that it must] have permanent value and, which is really the same thing, perpetual modernity." —Frank Kermode This lecture series highlighted one contemporary and one traditional viewpoint, voiced by world class architects, and framed them in national and local perspectives. View "Timeless or Of Its Time" Poster.

• Jan. 8:  Gustavo Araoz  Executive Director, International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
• Jan. 17:  Tod Williams  Billie Tsien Architects
• Feb. 28:  David Schwarz  David M. Schwarz/Architectural Services, Inc.
• Mar. 13: panel discussion by local design leaders