Our Materials Spotlight series is an intimate gallery program that is part gallery tour, part seminar. Focusing each month on a different material that Eileen Gray used in her work, this program is led by a world expert, who will highlight key aspects of specific works in the Gallery and situation those works in a larger context and lineage.
On Wednesday, April 15, join Caroline Constant, honorary member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, as she leads a tour and conversation on Eileen Gray’s Architecture.
Other Tours in the Series Include:
Wednesday, March 18
Metal Furniture
Led by Christopher Wilk
Wednesday, May 20
Fiber
Led by Jennifer Goff
Wednesday, June 17
Lacquer
Led by Ruth Starr
Caroline Constant is Professor of Architecture, and Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Planning (2011-2014) at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. She was a peer review editor of Places until 2017. Her research, which explores relationships among architecture, landscape architecture and the decorative arts, has been widely published in books and periodicals. Her books include The Modern Architectural Landscape (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), Eileen Gray (Phaidon, 2002), The Woodland Cemetery: Toward a Spiritual Landscape (Byggförlaget, 1994) and The Palladio Guide (Princeton Architectural Press, 1985). In recognition of her work on Eileen Gray, Constant was made an honorary member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, a recognition that Gray received late in her life.
