About this Event
Join us for the next installment of the Charnley Conversations lecture series, hosted by the Society of Architectural Historians and the Charnley-Persky House Museum.
About the event:
Have you ever looked at remnants of a long-gone historical site, and imagined what used to be there – and yearned to experience it as those millennia before you did? Join us for the next Charnley Conversations lecture on Tuesday, November 17 for a fascinating look at the visualization research of architect and professor Dominik Lengyel, from the Brandenburg University of Technology. Professor Lengyel's research focuses on making archaeological knowledge visible: working closely with archaeologists, he turns their findings – and their open questions – into architectural images. The result is not a photorealistic reconstruction, but rather a visualization that shows what we know and adds only as much as is needed to see the architecture (and nothing more). He will walk us through how he did this with a Roman Amphitheater in what is now Durres, Albania, the only one in Roman antiquity that uses the slope of its hill asymmetrically, demonstrating the interplay between architectural design and archeological expertise to give a clear picture of a building that “used to be there” – without inventing details we cannot know.
Professor and architect Dominik Lengyel, born and raised in Germany, gained his architecture diploma from Stuttgart University, after studies in mathematics, physics, and architecture in Essen, Paris, and at ETH Zürich. Before BTU Cottbus he was a full professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. Since 1999, he has been managing partner of Lengyel Toulouse Architects Berlin, an office for architecture and visualisation. He is the chair of Architecture and Visualization, at the Institute for Building and Art History, Faculty for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, at the Brandenburg University of Technology, in Cottbus, Germany. His research explores archeological research through architectural design. He is a frequent conference and public speaker.
This is a free event. Suggested $10 donation at the door.
Join us for a glass of wine, refreshments, and light bites at 5:30 p.m., followed by the presentation, and more conversation afterwards. Proceeds will support the Charnley-Persky House Museum Foundation.
This event is co-sponsored by The Charnley-Persky House and The Society of Architectural Historians.
Since this is a program with limited seating, please cancel your reservation if you are unable to attend.
Venue:
This lecture takes place at the Charnley-Persky House Museum, a National Historic Landmark building located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Designed by famed Chicago architect Louis Sullivan with assistance from his at-the-time junior draftsman Frank Lloyd Wright, the Charnley-Persky House (1891-1892) is recognized as a pivotal work of modern American architecture. We look forward to welcoming you into this unique space for an enlightening talk about preservation. In the meantime, take a virtual tour of the house.
Event venue & nearby stays
Charnley-Persky House Museum, 1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, United States
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