Adrian Forty is a retired professor of Architectural History at University College London. He is author of Objects of Desire: Design and Society since 1750, Concrete and Culture: A Material History and Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture.

Lecture topic” “Was Concrete Modern?” from Forty’s book Concrete and Culture 

Adrian Forty’s appearance is sponsored by the Departments of Art History and Design, the Davis Humanities Institute, History, and Landscape Architecture and the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum.