COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES TOUR with Ayad Rahmani, Professor of Architecture, WSU

About the event

Join Professor Ayad Rahmani on September 5 at 1:30 pm for an architectural perspective on works in the current exhibition Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. The tour begins in the museum and proceeds to other locations on campus around 2:15pm. Open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged throughout the tour and will be facilitated by Ayad Rahmani and Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs.

Community Perspectives Tours invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.

About | Ayad Rahmani is a professor of architecture at Washington State University where he teaches courses in design and theory. His research centers around the link between architecture and literature, exploring themes related to modern conceptions of space, psychology and urban culture. He is the author of three books, most recently one examining the role that Ralph Waldo Emerson played in shaping Frank Lloyd Wright’s intellectual identity. He is a frequent contributor to the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, a journal produced by the F. L. Wright Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona. Other scholarly productions include topics related to the work of Franz Kafka and Herman Melville. He writes a monthly column for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News on issues related to urban planning, culture, art and building design.

Image | Architecture Professor Ayad Rahmani (and etching) Anish Kapoor, Moiré 1, edition 24/39, 2015

LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. For more information please visit museum.wsu.edu/about.