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Designing the American Dream: Then & Now by Alice Rawsthorn

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2027
5:30 PM Cocktails, 6:00 PM Lecture

Award-winning design critic and author Alice Rawsthorn—described by MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli as “the best design critic in the entire world”—brings an international perspective to the enduring legacy of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Based in London, Rawsthorn was a foreign correspondent and architecture critic for the Financial Times before writing a weekly design column for The New York Times. Her books, including Design as an Attitude and Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, have been published in more than a dozen languages. At the Flagler Museum, Rawsthorn will explore the Fair’s impact in its own time and its continuing influence on design, architecture, art, and technology. Looking from the White City to the present, she will consider how its ambitious vision of the future resonates with the profound transformations occurring today in our lives, values, and ecology.