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September 2022

Friday, September 2nd, 2022

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas is hosting a Symposium in extension of the exhibition “A South Forty” September 23-24.

The symposium is an extension of the exhibition “A South Forty: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South,” which was originally displayed at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, and which now will be on display at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, from September 23 to December 16, 2022.
Chaired by Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, the 2020 AIA Gold Medalist and a Distinguished Professor and the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the University of Arkansas, the symposium will survey the nature and importance of “place-centered practice” in the contemporary American South, through evocations and observations provided by selected participants from the “South Forty” exhibition and other invited guests

Brandon Pace will be participating in a panel titled “Nature/Culture” at 10:15am on Saturday September 23rd. All events will occur in Vol Walker Hall. All events will be accessible via Zoom.

For more updates visit www.asouthforty.org.