WHEN: Tuesday, June 18 from 6:30-8:00 pm. Editor’s note: This annual Bernard Osher Lecture Series is made possible by the Peggy and Harold Osher Endowment at the Portland Museum of Art.
TITLE: The Streets of Falmouth Neck: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
BRIEF ABOUT: In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Charles Shipman Payson Building, the Portland Museum of Art, Henry N. Cobb will discuss Portland’s streets and squares and the ongoing dialogue between the memory of the city’s past, preoccupation with its present, and dream of its future.
Architect Cobb, who is one of three founding principals of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, his practice has embraced a wide variety of building types in cities across North America and around the world, including: the John Hancock Tower, Boston (1976); the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Boston (1998); and the Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University (2005). Cobb is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, academician of the National Academy of Design, and President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, and an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin College.
