Revival by George! Race, grace, and style at Washington State College

About the event

Spokane Preservation Advocates Winter Lecture Series 2022

This is the second lecture in our three-part winter lecture series.

To sign-up for this lecture go to the SPA website, or contact Dave Shockley so he can sign you up. You can only sign-up online until Wednesday, February 16th at midnight. You will be sent the Zoom invitation in the afternoon the day of the lecture.

About the Presenter

We are pleased to have a lecture presentation by J. Phillip Gruen, an Associate Professor in the School of Design and Construction at Washington State University (WSU). Phil, an architectural historian, will be focusing on the early twentieth-century development of the WSU campus. Washington State University is characterized by a red-brick, Georgian Revival architectural heritage. This talk discusses the rise of this heritage on the Pullman campus. The Georgian Revival was largely shaped by Pullman-based architects Rudolph Weaver and Stanley Smith. Spokane architects of the time also helped define what has become an iconic campus image.

Gruen teaches lecture courses and seminars in Historic Preservation; Vernacular Architecture; Modern Architecture and Theory; the Global History of Design; and Discrimination and Design, and for WSU’s Honors College he recently developed a course called “The Global Palouse.” Gruen also served three years as his School’s Director and Interim Director, and he serves on Historic Preservation committees for the city of Pullman and WSU.

Visit the SPA website for more information about this lecture and the other lectures in this series.