2008-2009 Faith & Life Lecture Series
Continues with Architect Philip Bess
Philip Bess, architect, author and expert on baseball park design, will speak on “Faith & Architecture: How Space is Sacred” on Friday, January 30, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. at the Plymouth Creek Center, 14800 34th Avenue, Plymouth, 55447. Thanks to the generosity of Faith & Life sponsors, this event, like all Faith & Life events, is free and open to the public.
Bess, who recently wrote Till we Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred, is Principal of Thursday Associates, a baseball park and urban design consulting firm based in Chicago. He has also served as the Director of the Urban Baseball Park Design Project of the Society for American Baseball Research, and in August 2000 led the successful Future Fenway Park design process for the Fenway Community Development Corporation.
In addition to his most recent volume, Bess is also the author of City Baseball Magic: Plain Talk and Uncommon Sense About Cities and Baseball Parks and Inland Architecture: Subterranean Essays on Moral Order and Formal Order in Chicago. Bess also serves as Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.
The Faith & Life Lecture Series, a community service of St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, create open and welcoming public forums where nationally known speakers reflect on how Christian faith intersects with different dimensions of everyday life. Visit www.faith-and-life.org for more information, or call 763-475-7136 or info@faith-and-life.org.
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