
	ART DECO LECTURE SERIES

	Tuesday 16 September 7:00 pm Please note: this lecture was originally scheduled for Tuesday 09 September, but due to concerns with the track of Hurricane Ike, the program has been moved back one week.

	*Art Deco India: A Personal Tour* India remains one of the most exotic and ancient of all world cultures, and is the fount from which many dance, music, and theater forms developed. But in the 1930s and 40s, architects embraced the global interest in modernism, and these architects (both Indian and Western-trained) left an extraordinary legacy of Art Deco structures throughout the country.

	Jack Johnson and Scott Timm offer an informal travelogue highlighting some of these great treasures, as well as more traditional building styles for comparison. Along the way, see local people, water buffalo, camels, Hindu celebrations, and the exquisite beauty of the Taj Mahal. Jack Johnson and Scott Timm have each traveled extensively, researching and photographing Art Deco architecture around the world. Johnson is a board member of MDPL, and is the president of the board of directors of the Miami Beach Community Development Corporation. Timm is MDPL's director of programs and outreach. Together, they represented Miami Design Preservation League on its inaugural international tour to India for two weeks in March 2008. Free admission.

	Note: The lobby of the Barclay Plaza is not air conditioned. Attire suitable for the hot Indian desert is recommended.


	Location: Lobby, Barclay Plaza Hotel, 1940 Park Av, Miami Beach Information: 305-672-2014 or www.mdpl.org



	The Miami Design Preservation League is a non-profit preservation and arts organization founded in 1976. It is devoted to preserving, protecting and promoting the architectural, cultural, social, economic, and environmental integrity of the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District (Art Deco District) as well as other areas of the city and South Florida, wherever historic preservation is a concern. MDPL is the oldest Art Deco society in the world.

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