Architectural historian and preservation advocate Caroline Rob Zaleski (Scripps ’69) will present “Saving the Architecture of Modernism and the Recent Past” on Friday, April 30 at 12:00 p.m., in the Hampton Room of Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons on the Scripps College Campus. Reservations are required, so interested attendees should call the Malott Commons Office at (909) 607-8508. For more information, please contact the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at (909) 607-3517.
Caroline Rob Zaleski is currently the director of advocacy for DOCOMOMO, an international organization concerned with preserving Modern architecture around the world. She has also served as the director of the Preservation League of New York State, and as staff historian of 20th Century Modernism at the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. Zaleski earned a B.A. from Scripps College in 1969, and earned an M.S. in architectural preservation from Columbia University. Zaleski’s talk will highlight her campaigns to save and interpret the Conger Goodyear House (1939), by Edward Durrell Stone and the Alvar Aalto rooms (1963) across from the United Nations.
Caroline Rob Zaleski’s appearance is sponsored by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Currently on view is the exhibition “Matter and Matrix: Kris Cox, Amy Ellingson, Elizabeth Turk and Jane Park Wells,” in which four contemporary artists explore the idea of networks and visual systems. The Gallery is located on the corner of 11th and Columbia, on the Scripps College campus. For information about other Gallery events, please contact (909) 607-3397.