I enjoy speaking on topics related to my past and current research. These include in particular the domestic buildings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the architecture of Birmingham, Alabama. I am also now beginning work on topics related to the emergence of Modernism in the southeastern United States.
The images you see here were taken during a lecture tour through Germany in the fall of 2003
The list below gives some idea of the settings in which and topics on which I have previously spoken.
"Historic Preservation, the Mississippi Context," Lost Jackson/Found Jackson
Symposium hosted by the Jackson Arts Alliance, Jackson, Mississippi, March, 1983.
"The Idea of the Southern Plantation," Buell Talks on American Architecture,
Columbia University, April, 1985.
"Father John Baptist Mouton, Builder Priest of Mississippi," Sesquicenntenial of the Catholic Church , Natchez, Mississippi, September, 1987.
"Decorum and Diversity in Southern Plantation Plan Types," University
of Virginia Symposium on the History of Art and Architecture, Charlottesville,
Virginia, 1989.
"The Temple in Mississippi: Understanding the National and International
Context," part of the Southern Museum of Jewish Experience's "Keeping
the Story Alive" project, August, 1991.
"Palladio, Palladianism, and Palladio-isms" Montgomery Museum of Fine Art's Palladio Symposium, November, 1991.
"Two Generations of Overstreets and the Sources for their Work," Mississippi Museum of Art, 1993.
"Analytic and Design Tools," 1995 A/E/C Systems Concurrent Coference, The American Institute of Architects, Atlanta, June, 1995.
"Palladio in the Deep South," Annual Meeting of the Palladian Society in America, Natchez, MS, October, 1995.
"Computer Applications in the Design Studio," American Institute of Architects Committe on Design, Memphis, TN, March, 1996.
“Southern Plantation Planning," Columbus, Mississippi Antiques Forum, 1996.
"Latrobe's 'Capital Houses', Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Washington, D.C.,
November, 2002.

