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Architecture as Catalyst

Norwich University is proud to announce that Tom S. Hines will be the guest of the College of Architecture and Art to speak to us from his latest book entitled, Architecture as Catalyst: Rudolph Schindler's Kings Road House, Los Angeles, 1922.

Dr. Tom S. Hines is Professor Emeritus at UCLA and is the leading historian on American Modern Architecture. He is author of the seminal work on the architecture of Richard Neutra and lives currently in an apartment design by Neutra. His other texts include: Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner; Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform: A Study in Modernist Architectural Culture; William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha; Architecture of Richard Neutra; and with other authors: International Style to California Modern; Richard Neutra’s Windshield House.

Dr. Hines is currently writing a book on Los Angeles Modern and is a member of the Board of Directors for Columbia University in New York City.