Carthage welcomes renowned architectural historian Anthony Alofsin, internationally recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on Frank Lloyd Wright, to campus April 11-13. Prof. Alofsin is this year's Sam and Gene Johnson Distinguished Visitor at Carthage. He will give two public lectures, speak at a private luncheon of Carthage's Business and Professional Coalition, and speak to students in several classes.

On Monday, April 11, Prof. Alofsin will speak on Flight of the Eagle, a book by 20th century Indian mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti, as part of the Book That Changed My Life lecture series. The lecture will be held at 4:55 p.m. in the H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art. The book explores the question of human freedom and the role of meditation in liberating the mind. All are welcome; refreshments will be served.

On Wednesday, April 13, Prof. Alofsin will be the featured speaker at a private luncheon of the Carthage Business and Professional Coalition, held at noon. The Coalition comprises the leading business, civic, professional and governmental leaders in southeastern Wisconsin. For more information about the Coalition, please contact Paul Hegland at (262) 551-5858.

Also on Wednesday, Prof. Alofsin will give a public lecture titled "Primary Forms: Spirit in Matter?" The lecture, part of Carthage's popular Hannibal Lecture series, will be held at 4:55 p.m. in the Niemann Media Theatre of Hedberg Library. Primary forms are the basic shapes that constitute visible objects — circles, squares and triangles — upon which man and nature construct more complex shapes. In this lecture, Prof. Alofsin will discuss the broad prevalence of primary forms over time and in diverse cultures, and how these forms played a fundamental role in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. All are welcome; refreshments will be served.

Prof. Alofsin is Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor in Architecture and professor of art and art history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is internationally recognized as an authority on Frank Lloyd Wright and modern architecture. In 2006, the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy awarded him the Wright Spirit Award, its highest honor.

Prof. Alofsin's pioneering study, Frank Lloyd Wright: the Lost Years, 1910-1922, is acknowledged to be one of the most important books on Wright in the last 40 years. His other publications include the five-volume reference work Frank Lloyd Wright: An Index to the Taliesin Correspondence, and numerous articles. He has been the consulting curator for the major retrospective Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1994 and has curated several other exhibits. He is also a practicing architect and has designed private homes for clients since 1992, including his own residence in Austin, which was featured in Architect, Professional Builder, and Better Homes and Gardens Building Ideas.

A graduate of Harvard College, Prof. Alofsin took his M.Arch. degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from Columbia University. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Harvard Design School Alumni Council, and a national board member of the Society of Architectural Historians.