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Mar 20, 2000
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Architecture Lecture: Society and Economy Influence Design
Darren Johnson
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081Water Mill architect Beverly Willis discusses how societal and economic differences affect architecture in a lecture titled "Architecture, Culture, East, West Observations." Sponsored by the Arts and Media Division of Southampton College of Long Island University, the event will be held Sunday, April 9, at 5 p.m. in Duke Lecture Hall. Admission is $5 per person; free for Southampton College students. Refreshments will be served.
Willis is an architect, urban planner, artist and writer. She recently returned from Southeast Asia where she lectured at the University of Hong Kong at the conference MegaCities 2000. She will also teach a course titled "New Visions for Cities" at the University of Kassel, Germany, this summer as part of the International Women's University and World Expo 2000.
Willis' book, "Invisible Images The Silent Language of Architecture" (National Building Museum, 1997), developed from her preparations for the Montgomery Fellowship Lecture at Dartmouth College. She has also written for several architecture magazines.