World War Two Memorial Designer to Speak at ‘Berg
Friedrich St. Florian, best-known as the designer of the World War Two Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., will speak as part of the College’s Center for Ethics series Memory and Forgetting.Tuesday, November 15, 2011 09:58 AM
His talk, “Memory Made Concrete: Memorials and Collective Memory,” is free and open to the public.
St. Florian’s talk will center on public memorials and the nature of collective memory, and on the role of architecture in public memory and history.
He received a masters degree in architecture from the Technische Universadad in Graz, Austria, and a master of science degree in architecture from Columbia University in New York. St.Florian has been a licensed architect in the United States since 1974. He is the founding principal of Friedrich St.Florian Architects, headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island.
His early career is distinguished by landmark theoretical work followed by critically acclaimed residences in Southern New England. The World War II Memorial is the firms most visible work to date. He has won numerous awards for his architectural achievements. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. His drawings are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. In 2006 Brown University bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa.
Memory and Forgetting is co-directed by Holly Cate, assistant professor of theatre, and Dr. Paul McEwan, associate professor of media and communication.
For more information on the series, please visit http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/cfe/.
