Grace Salon Presents
William Strickland: The Architect & The Architecture of Grace Church
Wednesday May 14th 2025
7-8:30PM
Grace Episcopal Church Parish Hall
At this special event, Grace Church will welcome Professor Emeritus Richard Guy Wilson of the UVA School of Architecture. He will speak to us about Gothic Revival Architecture and the national importance of our architect, William Strickland! Grace Church is the only known Virginia work of this leading American architect of the first half of the 19th century!
Professor Wilson’s specialty is scholarship involving the architecture, design, and art of the 18th to the 21st centuries in America and abroad. His research, publications, and exhibitions have ranged from the architecture of Thomas Jefferson to the Arts & Crafts and related movements in the United States and Europe, the history of cities and especially the American suburb and utopian plans, the foundations of Modernism, the revival of classicism in the later 19th century, and mid-20th century modern houses and furniture design. At UVA, Wilson taught a wide variety of courses that range from the global history of cities, surveys of architectural history, and historic preservation. His more specialized courses and seminars focused on Thomas Jefferson’s architecture, the American architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries, the American Renaissance and the Beaux-Arts, the Arts & Crafts Movement, mid-20th century modernism, and others. He is a frequent lecturer at universities, museums, and historical societies.
Professor Wilson’s specialty is scholarship involving the architecture, design, and art of the 18th to the 21st centuries in America and abroad. His research, publications, and exhibitions have ranged from the architecture of Thomas Jefferson to the Arts & Crafts and related movements in the United States and Europe, the history of cities and especially the American suburb and utopian plans, the foundations of Modernism, the revival of classicism in the later 19th century, and mid-20th century modern houses and furniture design. At UVA, Wilson taught a wide variety of courses that range from the global history of cities, surveys of architectural history, and historic preservation. His more specialized courses and seminars focused on Thomas Jefferson’s architecture, the American architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries, the American Renaissance and the Beaux-Arts, the Arts & Crafts Movement, mid-20th century modernism, and others. He is a frequent lecturer at universities, museums, and historical societies.
