Red Diamond Lecture: Building a Home to Last
featuring Gil Schafer
Friday, October 4 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Red Diamond Lecture: Building a Home to Last
Award-winning architect Gil Schafer is one of the country’s leading practitioners of contemporary classical architecture and one of the most sought-after residential architects working today. He is a member of Architectural Digest’s AD100, a winner of VERANDA’s “Art of Design Award,” a recipient of the Arthur Ross Award for Architecture, and the subject of the recent PBS documentary, “Design in Mind: Unlocking the Mysteries of Place.”
Gil holds a Master of Architecture from Yale and is the author of the bestselling books “The Great American House” and “A Place to Call Home.” His latest book, “Home at Last: Enduring Design for the New American House” is newly out from Rizzoli. He opened his eponymous firm G. P. Schafer Architect in 2002 and renamed the firm Schafer Buccellato Architects in the fall of 2023. Book signing to follow.
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