The Department of Architecture, Urban Planning + Design is pleased to host a talk by R. Crosby Kemper, Jr.
Friday, April 20th, 2012 @ 4:00pm, Katz Hall, rm. 101
Good design does not happen without someone willing to employ a designer or engage in a design process. This presentation by R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. inaugurates the first in a series of presentations on how design happens in a city. A design patron is someone who challenges a professional designer to solve a pressing problem— be it furnishing a signature bank or leading a civic coalition to save a historic building. R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. exemplifies what it means to be a design patron in Kansas City for well over five decades. Good design contributes to human physical and mental well-being and it improves the public realm while facilitating civic engagement.
Free and open to the public, but please RSVP here.