Registration for Programs

This page is for those who wish to register for an Athenaeum program who are not Athenaeum members.  If you are a member of the Athenaeum please contact Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688 or sgallo@PhilaAthenaeum.org to RSVP for the following programs.

Steven W. Semes, The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism and Historic Preservation

Tuesday, March 9, 2010,  6:00 PM

Free for Athenaeum, Classical America, Preservation Alliance and AIA Members/ $10 for Non-Members

Steven W. Semes is Associate Professor and Academic Director of the Rome Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A practicing architect for over thirty years, he has designed a wide variety of projects for preservation and new construction throughout the United States. In his new book he supports the ideas that new traditional architecture promises continuity in the historic built environment, and he calls for rethinking preservation standards and policies.

Athenaeum 195th Annual Meeting

Monday, April 12, 2010, 5:30 PM

$20- Athenaeum Shareholders Only

Annual Address by David G. De Long

Sunnylands: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California

Located near Palm Springs, California, in a community known as Rancho Mirage, Sunnylands was built in the early 1960s by Walter and Leonore Annenberg, two of America’s leading philanthropists. Envisioned by noted California architect A. Quincy Jones and the renowned interior design team of William Haines and Ted Graber, the estate has come to be regarded as an icon of midcentury architecture.

David G. De Long is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, a distinguished architectural historian, an Athenaeum stockholder, and author of several books on Louis I. Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright. Dr. De Long’s new book will be available for signing during the reception following the meeting and program.

 Jennifer Lee Carrell, Haunt Me Still

Wednesday, June 10, 2010, 5:30 PM

Free for Athenaeum Members/ $10 for Non-Members

Jennifer Lee Carrell returns to the Athenaeum with the latest in her series of Shakespearean mysteries, featuring Kate Stanley, a dauntless Shakespearean scholar turned- director. Here Kate and per partner Ben Pearl enter a new production of Macbeth and showcase a fabled collection of objects relating both to the play and the historical Scottish king for whom it is named. A cursed play, a ritual murder, blood on Kate’s hands – all wrap together to create another spellbinding mystery.