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Join for an evening of conversation and drinks with architect Belmont Freeman, FAIA (Principal, Belmont Freeman Architects) and Cathleen McGuigan (Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record).

Belmont Freeman, FAIA
Belmont Freeman, FAIA established his independent architectural practice in 1986, as founding principal of Freeman & Pizer Architects. In 1994, Freeman became sole proprietor of the firm, which was renamed Belmont Freeman Architects. An American of Cuban descent, Freeman is regarded as an expert on Cuban architecture, a subject on which he speaks and publishes widely. In 2004, he co-produced the landmark exhibition “Architecture and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1969,” at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Freeman is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architectural Planning and Preservation where he teaches a design studio within the Historic Preservation program. He was the President of the Board of Directors of Storefront for Art & Architecture, an internationally known not-for-profit design gallery in New York City, from 1998 to 2007. In 2009 Belmont Freeman was named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is licensed as an architect in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, and holds certification from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Cathleen McGuigan
Cathleen McGuigan is the editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, and a former Newsweek architecture critic and arts editor. A Michigan native and graduate of Brown, she possesses more than three decades of cultural journalism experience. She joined Newsweek in 1977 as a reporter for the magazine’s art critic and rose up through the ranks, becoming a senior editor in 1992. That same year, she earned a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard GSD. In 2008, McGuigan left the full-time staff of Newsweek and became a contributor to the magazine. She served as an executive editor of HQ: Good Design is Good Business, a McGraw-Hill pilot project. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, and Harper’s Bazaar among other periodicals, and she is currently conducting research for a biography of the critic Aline Saarinen. McGuigan is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, serves on various design juries, and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Skyscraper Museum in New York.











When: Fri., Jan. 17, 2014 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Pl.
212-683-0023
Price: $15; $12.50 members (includes 1 drink)
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Join for an evening of conversation and drinks with architect Belmont Freeman, FAIA (Principal, Belmont Freeman Architects) and Cathleen McGuigan (Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record).

Belmont Freeman, FAIA
Belmont Freeman, FAIA established his independent architectural practice in 1986, as founding principal of Freeman & Pizer Architects. In 1994, Freeman became sole proprietor of the firm, which was renamed Belmont Freeman Architects. An American of Cuban descent, Freeman is regarded as an expert on Cuban architecture, a subject on which he speaks and publishes widely. In 2004, he co-produced the landmark exhibition “Architecture and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1969,” at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Freeman is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architectural Planning and Preservation where he teaches a design studio within the Historic Preservation program. He was the President of the Board of Directors of Storefront for Art & Architecture, an internationally known not-for-profit design gallery in New York City, from 1998 to 2007. In 2009 Belmont Freeman was named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is licensed as an architect in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, and holds certification from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Cathleen McGuigan
Cathleen McGuigan is the editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, and a former Newsweek architecture critic and arts editor. A Michigan native and graduate of Brown, she possesses more than three decades of cultural journalism experience. She joined Newsweek in 1977 as a reporter for the magazine’s art critic and rose up through the ranks, becoming a senior editor in 1992. That same year, she earned a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard GSD. In 2008, McGuigan left the full-time staff of Newsweek and became a contributor to the magazine. She served as an executive editor of HQ: Good Design is Good Business, a McGraw-Hill pilot project. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, and Harper’s Bazaar among other periodicals, and she is currently conducting research for a biography of the critic Aline Saarinen. McGuigan is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, serves on various design juries, and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Skyscraper Museum in New York.

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