You can still register for the

Stonelea Architect Lecture Series

and Learn About Future Plans for the

Center's New Home

FIRST LECTURE ON MONDAY, APRIL 8!

STONELEA ARCHITECT LECTURE SERIES

BUILDING OUR FUTURE | PRESERVING OUR PAST: A NEW HOME FOR CRANBROOK CENTER FOR COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH

Mondays at 5:00pm (In Person Only)

Cranbrook Art Museum, deSalle Auditorium

April 8: Maryann Thompson (Maryann Thompson Architects, Watertown, MA)

April 29: Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee (Johnston Marklee, Los Angeles, CA, and Cambridge, MA)

May 6: Tod Williams (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners, New York, NY)

May 13: Níall McLaughlin (Níall McLaughlin Architects, London, England)

Hosted by Gregory Wittkopp, Director, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

$45 for Adults (Fee includes all four lectures)

Free for Cranbrook Faculty, Students, and Staff (Register by using your “Cranbrook.edu” email address)

Free for Full-time Students (Register by emailing center@cranbrook.edu)

Presented by Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

Cranbrook is in the process of selecting an architect to design a new home for Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, including Cranbrook Archives. You are invited to join us as we learn more about the four firms under consideration and how their work aligns with the needs of the Center’s future.

The site for this ambitious project is adjacent to Cranbrook’s main public entrance on Woodward Avenue, just north of the Kingswood Campus. The site includes a home that the legendary Detroit architect Albert Kahn designed for a Detroit banker and his wife, Ralph and Mary Stone. Stonelea, as they named it, was home to four families before Cranbrook acquired it in 2003.

Stonelea will be renovated and expanded to accommodate not only the offices and workspaces of the Center staff, but also new public and student spaces, including a classroom and a gallery. Critically, the project includes a new building adjacent to the existing residence that will house a state-of-the-art vault for the 2.5 million documents that comprise the collections of Cranbrook Archives—a facility that makes these collections accessible to the Center’s audiences, whether they are active researchers, classroom students, or tour and event visitors.

PHOTO CREDITS

Photograph of Stonelea by James Haefner. Courtesy Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.

Architect photographs (from left to right): Maryann Thompson, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, Tod Williams, and Niall McLaughlin. Courtesy the architects.