Architecture Critic Mark Lamster to Present Lecture on March 18 in Little Rock

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Mark Lamster, architecture critic for The Dallas Morning News, will present a lecture Tuesday evening at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock.

Mark Lamster will present a lecture titled “Sizing Up Architecture: A Critic’s View” on Tuesday, March 18, at the Arkansas Arts Center, 501 E. 9th St., in Little Rock. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the center’s Lecture Hall, following a 5:30 p.m. reception.

Lamster is architecture critic for The Dallas Morning News and an assistant professor and Dillon Center Fellow in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington.

This lecture is part of the Architecture and Design Network’s 2013-2014 Art of Architecture lecture series.

Architecture critics are rare breeds in this part of the country. Lamster, a recent arrival at The Dallas Morning News, offers a perspective on the built environment that enables others to see and talk about their surroundings in new and different ways. Lamster, who also teaches a graduate seminar on criticism and critical writing at the University of Texas at Arlington, possesses a “range of interests that rivals those of any architecture critic in the country,” according to Bob Mong, Dallas Morning News editor. Lamster’s background in art, as well as architecture, informs his writing.

A contributing editor to Architectural Review and Design Observer, his work also has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and many other national publications. Lamster is currently at work on a definitive biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, who, among his many accomplishments, established the architecture department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The book is set to be published by Little, Brown and Company.

For more than a decade, Lamster served as editor of the Princeton Architecture Press. He is the author of several books, including Master of Shadows (2009), a political biography of the painter Peter Paul Rubens. Baseball fans may be familiar with his first book, Spalding’s World Tour, the story of a group of all-star baseball players who circled the globe in the 19th century. That work was a New York Times Editor’s Selection. 

Lamster, a native of New York City, has a bachelor of arts from Johns Hopkins University and a master of arts from Tufts University.

The 2013-14 Art of Architecture lecture series is sponsored by the Architecture and Design Network, a non-profit organization, with support from the Central Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Arkansas Arts Center and the Fay Jones School of Architecture.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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