Past History of American Architecture Series
Did you miss a virtual or in-person session of History of American Architecture? Did you just discover the series and want to see more?
Register here to enjoy five weeks of lectures, at your own pace. Registrants will receive links to recorded lectures available online. In addition, registrants can request a reading list tailored to each series.
Please email center@cranbrook.edu if you have any questions.
Series Four: Cranbrook visitors
- Titans of Modernism - Architect-In-Residence: Eliel Saarinen
- Expressionists - Architect-In-Residence: Glen Paulsen
- Deconstructivists and Postmodernists - Architect-In-Residence: Daniel Libeskind
- Experimental Neomodernists - Architect-In-Residence: Dan Hoffman
- Global Contextualists - Architect-In-Residence: William E. Massie
Series Five: EERO SAARINEN AND HIS CIRCLE
- Making Eero Saarinen
- The New American Campus / General Motors Technical Center
- Home as Living Art / Miller House
- Sculpture, Structure, and Style / Trans World Airlines Terminal
- Saarinen Associates after Eero / CBS Building
Series six: Frank LLoyd Wright
- Adaptation, Invention, and Imagination, 1867-1909
- Experiments and Failures, 1909-1931
- Wright’s Institutions, Wright as Institution, 1931-1959
- The Small House Problem and Suburbia, 1931-1959
- Staying Power and The Cult of Wright, 1959-Present
Series Seven: detroit and the world
- Firing On All Cylinders: The Creation of Modern Detroit
- Importing Dreams: From French Colony to English Arts and Crafts
- Cranbrook: The Cradle of Midcentury Modernism
- From City Beautiful to Urban Renewal: Architecture and Civic Identity
- Continuity, Reuse, and Reinvention
Four series of History of American Architecture are available online. Under "Comments/Special Instructions" please name the series you are registrering for:
- Cranbrook Visitors
- Eero Saarinen and His Circle
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Detroit and the World