Gainesville Modern's MOD Talks Lecture Series

Name: Gainesville Modern's MOD Talks Lecture Series
Start: 2025-03-27T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Matheson History Museum

Schedule

Thu, 27 Mar, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Matheson History Museum | Gainesville, FL

Join Gainesville Modern and the Matheson History Museum for our opening event of Gainesville Modern Weekend 2025: MOD Talks Lecture Series. We are excited to have George Smart aka "Mr. Modernism" and his National keynote lecture "The Accidental Archivist: Preserving America's Legacy of Modernist Houses."
George Smart HAIA is founder and CEO of USModernist®, the world's largest nonprofit educational archive dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and promotion of Modernist residential design. A passionate advocate for Modernism, George has been one of the nation's leaders in raising awareness to preserve this important architectural movement. He is a frequent speaker to architecture, design, preservation, real estate, and museum groups and is one of the few people to be bestowed an Honorary AIA by the national American Institute of Architects.
As host of the long-running USModernist Radio, named by DWELL as the #2 architecture and design podcast, George has led 400 episodes and interviewed over 680 guests in architecture and design from around the world. USModernist’s intrepid team of nonprofit staff and volunteers have documented over 140 major 20th century architects, researched over 23,000 Modernist houses, and scanned over 4.3 million pages of architecture magazines going back over 130 years. USModernist's work has helped to change the way people think about preservation. George and USModernist have won 20 honors for leadership in preservation, including national AIA Institute Honors for Collaborative and Professional Achievement. Tickets are free, but seating is limited. Reserved ticket required.