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May 4, 2006
TONIGHT! Public Forum: The 2006 Temko Critics Panel, "The Question of Activism."
May 4th at 6:00 pm
137 East 22nd Street,
The Oak Room.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Forum For Urban Design and the Lincoln Institute.
Hosted by the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute.
Listing from the Forum For Urban Design web site:
In 1961, Allan Temko joined the San Francisco Chronicle as architecture critic. Over the course of a Pulitzer Prize-winning 45-year career, he inserted himself into almost every significant debate over development in the Bay Area. Allan relished his reputation for being an activist critic; as he later recalled,“my job was to raise hell.”
Before his death this January, Allan had been working with the Forum For Urban Design to plan a conversation among architecture critics on this very subject. Can a critic, Allan wondered, do more than simply wait for mistakes to happen and then complain about them in print? On May 4th at 6:00 pm, we will explore this question in his honor, as we suspect he already had his answer.
Posted by lumi at May 4, 2006 7:20 AM