Joanne and Alan Kohn Lecture
“Preserving Wright’s Legacy in St. Louis: Rooflines and Beyond”
Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Saint Louis Art Museum
Gunny Harboe, FAIA, Fellow US/ICOMOS
Architect Gunny Harboe will provide insight into preserving one of St. Louis’s architectural treasures—the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park—a Frank Lloyd Wright “Usonian” design located in Kirkwood. Learn how a conservation management plan is guiding the restoration of its distinctive roof and how it will inform future preservation.
This presentation will highlight how the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park’s commitment to values-based preservation planning shaped real decisions about materials, techniques, and design solutions for the roof and how it will ensure that this iconic property will exist for generations to come.
The lecture is free but tickets are required. Tickets may be reserved in person at the Saint Louis Art Museum Info Centers or through MetroTix at metrotix.com or 314.534.1111. All tickets reserved through MetroTix incur a service charge.
Dr. Ken Tadashi Oshima is Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he teaches in the areas of trans-national architectural history, theory and design. Dr. Oshima’s publications include Kiyonori Kikutake: Between Land and Sea (2015), Architecturalized Asia (2013), International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku (2009) and Arata Isozaki (2009). He is guest curator of the exhibition “The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World” (Toyota Museum of Art, 2023) and was a co-curator of “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive” (MoMA, 2017), “Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noemi Raymond” (2006-7). He is a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and served as President from 2016-18. His articles on the international context of architecture and urbanism in Japan have been published in journals including a+u, Architectural Review, Architectural Theory Review, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Kenchiku Bunka, Japan Architect, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, and the AA Files.
