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Speakers
DALE LAURIN, RA
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With
degrees in architecture and historic preservation, Dale Laurin has over
30 years experience as a designer and project manager. For a decade he
was a team leader in the Architecture and Engineering section of the
New York City Department of Design and Construction, where he reviewed
a wide variety of public sector building projects—from firehouses to
libraries to health clinics—for the city's Design Excellence
initiative. He has studied Aesthetic Realism since 1976, first with its
founder Eli Siegel and now in professional classes with Chairman of
Education Ellen Reiss. Since 1984 he has been a consultant on the
faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. He also taught
architectural history at the CUNY College of Technology.
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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