Diane Favro will present the next lecture of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 29 in Richards Hall, Room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Her lecture on Roman archaeology, titled “Marble Parades: Celebrating Materiality in Augustan Rome” is sponsored by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, Department of Art and Art History and the Lincoln-Omaha Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. She will discuss how the Emperor Augustus celebrated the architectural transformation of Rome by means of celebratory parades.
Favro is a professor of Architecture and Urban Design and associate dean of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. Her research explores the urbanism of ancient Rome, archaeological historiography, women in architecture and new technologies in humanistic research.
Favro has written on subjects ranging from Armenian architectural symbolism to urban armatures in Roman Asia Minor and depictions of women architects in American advertising. A new major work is “Roman Architecture and Urbanism,” (Cambridge University Press) co-authored with Fikret Yegül.
As a founder of the UCLA CVRLab and the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center, Favro was an early adopter of 3-D, real-time digital modeling for historical research, receiving large grants for such pioneering, award-winning projects as the Digital Roman Forum and Digital Karnak. She was president of the national Society of Architectural Historians from 2002-2004 and a Resident at the American Academy in Rome in 2014.
Her current work applies the techniques of procedural modeling and Building Information Modeling to the interrogation of historical buildings and urban environments.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Art and Art History, enhancing the education of students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design.
Richards Hall is at Stadium Drive and T streets. For more information, contact the Department of Art and Art History at 402-472-5522.
