The 24^th Annual Fall Forum topic on Friday, October 25, 11:45 to 1:30 at the Hall of Mirrors in the Hilton Netherland Plaza will be “Women, Architecture & ’The Most Modern Hotel in America.’” Our guest speaker is Gabrielle Esperdy, PhD., Associate Professor of Architecture and Design at of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr. Esperdy has written extensively on the experience of women in the American architecture profession from the 1950s to the present.  Her talk will tell the story of pioneering modern architect Natalie de Blois, designer of Cincinnati’s Terrace Plaza and numerous important works of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

CPA’s Fall Forum has become Cincinnati’s most widely anticipated Forum topic on preservation and urban redevelopment.  Among our guests, you see architects, developers, civic leaders, attorneys and others who appreciate and support historic preservation in the greater Cincinnati region.