Architect Henry Hornbostel at 100

Pittsburgh’s reputation as a city with outstanding architecture draws substantially from buildings by Henry Hornbostel. The Brooklyn native first came to town in 1904 to design the Carnegie Tech campus. Other local monuments followed. Still warmly remembered for his flamboyant personality, Hornbostel was a great architectural talent, whose buildings were at once pleasantly eccentric and typical of their era. Architectural historian Charles Rosenbloom discusses how both things can be true, and how Hornbostel helps us understand American architecture in the 1900s and beyond.

This program will take place in the South Wing Reading Room.