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Love the Bomb April 24th

April 5, 2026 – 4:00 pm

The absurdity of nuclear politics is dialed to an 11 in Dr. Strangelove (1964), Stanley Kubrick’s seriously funny film about dropping the H-bomb. Based on British writer Peter George’s novel Red Alert, which imagines rational and responsible responses to a nuclear accident between the United States and the Soviet Union, in Kubrick’s reimagining, lunacy and […]

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Lawrence should have a Haystack

October 10, 2025 – 9:46 pm

One afternoon in the summer of 2014, while visiting modernist architect Carol A. Wilson’s home studio in Falmouth, Maine, I mentioned that my wife and I were planning to take a trip up to Acadia National Park the next day. Knowing that I had an interest in modern architecture, Carol said, “You should go check […]

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In Memoriam: Stephen H. Grabow

January 28, 2025 – 9:29 pm

If George Beal, Curtis Besinger, and Eugene George were the fathers of KU’s modern architecture program, then Professor Emeritus Stephen Grabow, who died last week in Bloomington, Minn. at age 81, was its passionate, steadfast defender. Separated by one or two degrees from Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, who strongly influenced the development of […]

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