The Museum of Modern Art For Immediate Release February 1986 SYMPOSIUM AND LECTURES TO BE HELD WITH MIES VAN DER ROHE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION The Museum of Modern Art will present a symposium and series of three lectures to complement the MIES VAN DER ROHE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, which will be on view at the Museum from February 10 to April 15, 1986. These programs, held in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1, are made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The schedule is as follows: SYMPOSIUM Mies at 100 Tuesday, February 25, 8:30 p.m. Panelists: Franz Schulze, moderator Hoi lender Professor of Art, Lake Forest College Thomas Beeby Architect, Hammond, Beeby & Babka, Chicago Arthur Drexler Director, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art James Ingo Freed Architect, I.M. Pei & Partners, New York Philip Johnson Architect, John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson, New York Dirk Lohan Architect, Lohan Associates, Chicago - more - 11 West 53 Street, New York, N.Y 10019-5486 Tel: 212-708-9400 Cable: MODERNART Telex: 62370 MODART - 2 - LECTURES Wednesday, March 5, 6:30 p.m. The Legacy of German Neo-Classicism and Biedermeier: Loos, Mies, and Tessenow Stanford Anderson Professor, History of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday, March 12, 6:30 p.m. Mies, Architecture, and the Modern Landscape Kurt Forster Director, J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities Wednesday, March 19, 6:30 p.m. Mies and the Politics of the Modern Movement in Architecture Richard Pommer Professor, History of Architecture, Vassar College As a special privilege for ticket-holders, the exhibition will be open for private viewings prior to the symposium and lectures. The galleries will be open at 6:30 p.m. before the symposium, and at 5:00 p.m. before the lectures. Tickets for the symposium and each individual lecture are $7.00, Museum Members $6.00, and students with validated ID $5.00; and are available at the Lobby Desk or by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope with payment to the Department of Education, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019. No. 5 For further information or photographic materials, contact Jeanne Collins or Jessica Schwartz, Department of Public Information 212/708-9750. .