The Robert E. Lewis Memorial Lecture
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation has sponsored an annual lecture for most of its history. The Robert E. Lewis Memorial Lecture brings an expert in the field of Architecture to our city for an evening of discussion about the built environment, be it focused on the work of an individual practitioner or an overarching topic.
This year, The Baltimore Architecture Foundation is proud to present Witold Rybczynski and his lecture “When Buildings Try Too Hard”
Witold Rybczynski, the Martin and Margy Myerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and architecture critic for Slate magazine is the author of more than fifty articles and papers on the subject of housing, architecture, and technology. His essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the New York Review of Books, he has also written for The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
Past lecturers have included:
Dr. Barry Bergdoll
Robert Campbell, FAIA
Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA
Samuel White
Allan Greenberg
Antoine Predock
Charles M. Gwathmey, FAIA
Eric Owen Moss, FAIA
Lebbeus Woods
Dr. Phoebe Stanton
Dr. Charles Jencks
Peter Blake
Edmund Bacon
James Rouse
Samuel White
Vincent Scully
The Robert E. Lewis Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation through a gift from the family of architect Robert E. Lewis.
