$12 Member | $10 Student | $20 Non-member
Hear how the architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), which was founded in 1936 and drew attention for its design of several pavilions at the New York World’s Fair of 1939-40, was suddenly thrust into secretly designing an entire city from scratch during World War II. Nicholas Adams, professor of art at Vassar College and author of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: SOM since 1936, and Phil Enquist, FAIA, consulting partner, urban design and planning, SOM, trace the history of SOM from its early days, through its work on the wartime “secret city” of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to its cutting-edge practice today. Moderated by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., senior curator. This program complements the exhibition Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project,which will be open prior to the program.
