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On March 29, 1968, First Church Boston (Ware & Van Brunt, 1868) burned to the ground. In the ensuing months, the congregation choose Paul Rudolph to rebuild their church in part because his was the only proposal to include what remained of the existing gothic façade in the design. This panel discussion, held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the building, will consider the design now and then and how it fits into the larger legacy of Rudolph’s work.

The architecture panel discussion about the work of Paul Rudolph and his groundbreaking building for First Church will be held in First Church Boston on Sunday, May 1 at 2pm. There will be a brief video introduction by Robert Campbell, the architecture critic for the Boston Globe. 

Panelists are Kelvin Dickinson, President of the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, Alice Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art at Wellesley College, Eric Höweler, Co-founder of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP and Associate Professor in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Timothy Rohan, associate professor, Department of Art and Architectural History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author of The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (Yale University Press, 2014) and Justin Beal, artist and author and moderator of the panel.

The First Church in Boston is a Unitarian Universalist congregation. It is a vibrant meeting place offering a friendly, open-hearted and open-minded welcome to seekers on a spiritual path. The church is fully accessible. Learn more at firstchurchboston.org

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