"Boston Modern Architecture: Spirit of Reinvention" is the topic of a panel discussion at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St., sponsored by the National Trust For Historic Preservation, Wednesday at 7 p.m. Those of us who wish to get snarky about whether there's enough of it for a discussion should take a look at the booklet prepared for the event, with text by my old Boston herald colleague David Eisen. There's plenty, from the First Church itself and the Polaroid Building to our ever-controversial, brutalist City Hall and private residences like the Gropius House and the Six moon Hill development. A lot of it is hidden away on college campuses where it's seldom seen, much less visited, by the public at large. But it's there, and its future will be debated Wednesday by a group including preservation architect David Fixler; Kathy Spiegelman, Chief Planner, Allston Development Group at Harvard University; and Charles Birnbaum, President, Cultural Landscape Foundation, and former coordinator for the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative.
The event is part of the Modern Module program, which is "aimed at building public support for and engaging in discussions focused on the study and protection of America’s modern architectural resources." The series of events is coordinated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Henry Luce Foundation.The program is free and open to the public, but you have to go here to preregister.
Picture by Bobak Ha'Eri under a Creative Commons license.
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