UMassBRUT presents ‘Windows on UMass’
UMassBRUT, a campaign designed to educate and advocate for the conservation, renovation, and reuse of Brutalist architecture throughout the UMass higher education state-wide community, will host “Windows on UMass,” a series of events on the UMass Amherst campus this fall.
The campaign, which includes an exhibit, a symposium, walking tours and a lecture and reception, will run into December.
The “Windows on UMass” exhibit, which will be held Oct. 7 – Dec. 10 in the Olver Design Building Gallery, is a project that inspired students to interpret the brutalist buildings of the UMass Amherst and UMass Dartmouth campus through their windows. The exhibit showcases original work of students from both universities, comprised of various mediums including photography, digital renderings, drawings, and writings.
The exhibit is led by UMassBRUT founding members Timothy M. Rohan, associate professor and chair of the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, and Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, senior campus planner and architect.
Rohan and Ludmilla-Pavlova will also host “Teaching and Learning with Our Campus Modernist Architecture,” a symposium that will be held at the Olver Design Building Oct. 25. A walking tour examining the windows of the Brutalist buildings on the campus will be led by Rohan and student docents at 4:30 p.m.
On Nov. 8, UMassBrut will host a lecture by – and reception with – Daniel Klem, Jr., Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology at Muhlenberg College. Klem will present “Science of Bird-Window Collisions and the Need to Protect Birds from the Human Built Environment,” from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Olver Design Building room 170.
Sponsors of “Windows on UMass” include the departments of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Conservation, the UMass Amherst Libraries, a College of Humanities and Fine Arts Research Council Grant and Conference Grant, UMass Amherst Campus Planning, the UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts and Docomomo New England.
More information about the various “Windows on UMass” events can be found on the UMassBRUT website.