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Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
Series: Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture
Presented By: Thomas Luebke, FAIA, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
Date Recorded: May 15, 2013
Duration: 01:09:02
Secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, Thomas Luebke, FAIA, presents the evolving role of the Commission of Fine Arts in the context of the artistic, social, and political circumstances that fostered the commission’s creation and the subsequent trends that have informed its decisions. As design philosophies and styles changed over the century, the commission also shifted its emphasis—from Beaux-Arts architecture and planning principles to the modernist pragmatism of midcentury, the urban redevelopment, and historicist trends of the late twentieth century, and to the contemporary era characterized by issues of security, sustainability, and information technology.
