Event

Cost: Suggested donation: $5
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Please join the Center for Architecture for a screening of selections from the film series "Understanding Cities" (1984) produced by Edmund N. Bacon. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring:

Michael Bacon

Michael, one of Ed Bacon’s six children, works as a singer-songwriter, musician and film score composer, through his company, Michael Bacon Music. He and his brother Kevin form the Bacon Brothers Band. Michael was one of the four collaborators who produced the “Understanding Cities” films with his father.

Gregory Heller

Greg is Managing Director at The Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation and Chairman of the Ed Bacon Program Committee of the Center for Architecture. He is currently writing a biography of Bacon.

Scott Gabriel Knowles, Ph.D.
Scott is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University, and Director of Drexel’s Great Works Symposium. He is the editor of the recent book, "Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City," published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2009.

Moderated by Julie Hoffman, AIA

Julie is an architect at EwingCole/RDLA Healthcare, President-Elect of AIA Philadelphia, and a member of the Ed Bacon Program Committee of the Center for Architecture.

This event is part of a series hosted by John DeFazio, AIA (Architect & Associate Professor @ Drexel University) and Nick Groch, Assoc. AIA, which screens films that explore ideas and themes on architecture and architects. The theme for all films in the 2010/2011 series is "The City." Discussion is encouraged.