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Speakers
DALE LAURIN, RA
Urbane Architects P.C.
New York, NY
e-mail: dl@urbanearchitects.com
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With
degrees in architecture
and historic preservation, Dale Laurin has practiced as a designer and
project manager for several firms over 25 years. And he's studied
Aesthetic
Realism, first with its founder Eli Siegel and now in professional
classes
with the Class Chairman, Ellen Reiss, and since 1984 been a consultant
on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York. He's
currently working in
the Architecture and Engineering section of the New York City
Department of
Design and Construction, where he will be reviewing a wide variety of
public
sector building projects--from firehouses to libraries to health
clinics--as
part of the city's Design Excellence initiative.
As part of
the teaching trio,
The Kindest Art—consultants to artists—he's presented papers in public
seminars on the life and work of architects including Brunelleschi,
Michelangelo,
Borromini, Calvert Vaux, Louis Sullivan, LeCorbusier, Santiago
Calatrava,
and Daniel Libeskind. He's given talks in the Terrain Gallery series, Aesthetic
Realism Shows How Art Answers the Questions of Your Life, on
Borromini's
Sant Ivo church, and New York’s Flatiron and Empire State Buildings.
For
several years he wrote gallery reviews—with the Siegel Theory of
Opposites
as his critical basis—for the art journal Sunstorm.
His design
for the World
Trade Center site memorial can be seen at www.wtcsitememorial.com (see
link below). Select "Exhibition" and search for his submission under
Laurin,
then click to enlarge the drawings and read the text of his design
narrative,
in which he speaks importantly about what he's learned from Aesthetic
Realism.
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