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District of West Vancouver – Annual Barry Downs Lecture Series
July 8, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm
$22 – $25District of West Vancouver – Annual Barry Downs Lecture Series: “The B.C. Idiom” Revisited: Contemporary Domestic Architecture in the Age of Upheaval
A part of West Coast Modern Week, the Inaugural Barry Downs Architecture Lecture will feature Dr. Michael Prokopow.
A cultural historian and curator, Dr. Prokopow has written widely about material life, aesthetics and the work of decolonizing the study of modernism, and he is currently working on a project on middle class taste in North America between 1940 and 1975. Past curatorial projects have included multiple exhibitions and installations, such as True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada, and the Design Exchange, Canada’s only museum of 20th-century industrial design. In 2022, Dr. Prokopow will be releasing his new book, Responses: Recent and Contemporary Domestic Architecture in British Columbia.
Date: July 8, 2022
Time: 7:30 – 8:15 p.m.
Location: Kay Meek Arts Centre, 1700 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver
Cost: $22-25
Learning Units (LUs): 0.75 Non-core
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