Back Bay Historical/The Global Boston Perspective, Boston Architectural College, and the Back Bay Association are sponsoring a forum at Cascieri Hall in the Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street (corner of Hereford and Newbury) Wednesday morning. Following opening comments by Ted Landsmark, President of BAC, Douglass Shand-Tucci will give the keynote address on “Why Trinity Church Needed the Hancock Tower – Why the Historic Needs the Modern.” This will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Jeff Stein, Head of the School of Architecture, and will include Robert Campbell, Architecture Critic for The Boston Globe, Bryan Koop, Sr., Vice President and Regional Manager of Boston Properties, John Palmieri, Director of the BRA, Tad Stahl, member of the Mayor’s Back Bay Task Force of 1970, and Mark Jarzombek, Head of History, Theory, and Criticism, MIT School of Architecture. Meg Mainser-Cohen, President of the Back Bay Association, will conclude the two hour forum. To rsvp, please call 617-266-1991, or email megmc@bostonbackbay.com.
