The Ridge Historical Society
Friday Evening Hetherington Architectural Lecture Series
The second program that will be part of the RHS Friday Evening Hetherington Architectural Lecture Series will be held on Friday, November 11, at 7:00 pm. Featured will be Mati Maldre presenting “Photographing Architecture and a View Camera Demonstration.”
Mati is the chair of the RHS Historic Buildings Committee. He is an Emeritus Professor of Art/Photography at Chicago State University. His photographs have been widely published, collected, and exhibited in significant organizations such as The Art Institute of Chicago and The International Venice Architecture Biennial. He is the co-author and photographer for Walter Burley Griffin in America and The Chicago Bungalow, and his photographs are featured in the publication The Griffins in Australia and India.
Mati owns a historic home in Beverly designed by another famous architect, Walter Burley Griffin. He currently has an online exhibit on Griffin’s architecture at https://www.griffinsociety.org/mati-maldre-exhibition/?fbclid=IwAR0Js0mCsipfSweu-_EKpto2iHsrzesjNovEgXh2qchqhV9YCxMgHEUNkSo
Mati’s statement for the RHS program reads: “In my architectural photographic documentation, I strive to blend fundamental documentation and the interpretive expression that reveals new appreciation and understanding of our man-made environment. I attempt to couple a firm respect for the subject’s integrity and the architect’s intent with a desire to produce an accurate photographic image with my Deardorff 4×5/5×7 view camera. My photos, like the buildings they represent, are both art and science, both personal and practical.”
The RHS Friday evening programs in November are part of the Hetherington Design Dynasty exhibit currently being shown at RHS. The exhibit features three generations of architects from the Hetherington family who called Beverly home and designed upwards of one hundred buildings in the community. The exhibit will run through the end of the year. Mati’s photographs of some of the buildings the Hetheringtons designed cover one wall of the exhibit.
The other two programs in the series are:
Friday, November 4, 7:00 p.m., Tim Blackburn, Researcher, “Discover the History of Your Chicago House”
Friday, November 18, 7:00 p.mm, Michael Lambert, Architect, Historian, & Preservationist, “John Todd Hetherington: From Lake Forest to Geneva”
Information on these programs is highlighted in other posts.
The programs will be at RHS in the historic Graver-Driscoll House, located at 10621 S. Seeley Avenue, Chicago. The cost is $10/members, and $15/non-members for each lecture. A reception will follow each lecture.
For now, save the date. The link to register for the program on Eventbrite will be posted in coming days. Reservations are recommended.