ANGST IN NASHVILLE:
MODERNISM ARRIVES IN THE HOOD

Tuesday, February 27, 5:30 – 7:30p.m.
At the Nashville Civic Design Center
138 Second Avenue North, Suite 106

A recent flurry of newspaper articles remind us once again of the angst that accompanies the arrival of anything resembling modern architecture in many of Nashville's neighborhoods. As Tom Spector recently wrote, "(Its many) desirable qualities should make Modernism in architecture an easy matter to champion and justify to the world at large but instead the opposite is more often the case."

And perhaps nowhere more so than here in "The Athens of the South." This Urban Design Forum will explore the ongoing "project" of modern architecture as alive and well here in Nashville. A panel of Nashville architects whose work would appear to be, in some way, a part of this modernist trajectory have been invited to come and show one project each-- completed, ongoing, or abandoned-- in ten minutes or less each. With these presentations forming a visual base line, a panel discussion, with audience participation, will ensue regarding the potential, and limits, of "modern architecture" here in Tennessee-- and elsewhere.