Oct 9, 2025 5:00 - 6:00 pm CDT
Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture and Urbanism, 2131 E. Hartford Avenue Milwaukee,
WI 53211
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Speaker
- Nora Wendl
- Views
- 8
This event will include three parts: a contextualizing introduction to Nora Wendl’s book Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth (University of Illinois Press, 2025) by Professor Adrienne Economos-Miller; an illustrated reading of excerpts of this book by Wendl; and a conversation between Professors Wendl, Economos-Miller, and Sam Schuermann on the themes and topics of the book. Almost Nothing is a critical history of the Edith Farnsworth House (Mies van der Rohe, Plano, Illinois, 1951) written in the form of an auto-theoretical memoir. As such, it engages in topics and questions related to architectural historiography, feminism, preservation, memory, and authorship.