For this event, Eva Hagberg will give a contextualizing introduction to Nora Wendl’s book, Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth, followed by a discussion of the book’s themes and a reading of selected excerpts by Wendl. Almost Nothing is a critical history of the all-glass Edith Farnsworth House (Mies van der Rohe, Plano, Illinois, 1951) written in the form of an auto-theoretical memoir that follows the author’s research journey. In Hagberg’s words, it is a book that “radically changes our understanding of how the history of modern architecture has been created, and illuminates the actual mechanisms of those who have created it.” Following the discussion, there will be a reception and book sale and signing in the Rainosek Gallery, where Wendl’s related exhibit, Almost Nothing, is on view.
