What Makes American Architecture Unique?
Chestertown, MD, March 14, 2002 — The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, the Department of Art, and the Art History Club at Washington College are proud to host Robert Duemling—Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the College’s Department of Art, and former Director of the National Building Museum, Washington, DC—speaking on “Making Architecture American: Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright,” Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 7:30 p.m. in the College’s Casey Academic Center Forum. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. Did any architects, particularly early in our nation’s history, consciously set out to create “American” architecture? Have any done so since? And is there anything particularly “American” about what has been built in this country? Duemling will address these questions. Duemling is a former career diplomat and museum director, now retired, devoting his time and energies to a variety of philanthropic projects. Duemling spent his youth in F
