By: Tammie Fitzpatrick, AIA 

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The building tour of the WARE Center at the 2012 Conference & Expo will be led by Robert Brandt, III. Bob was the project manager for Benchmark Construction Company when the center was built in 2008. Here is a brief overview of Bob and his work.

Robert A. Brandt III, otherwise referred to

as Bob, was born and raised in Manheim Township, PA. He attended Manheim Township High School and moved on to continue his studies at Indiana University where Bob played tight end and right tackle for the Hoosiers football team. In 2003 Bob graduated with a  Bachelor's degree in Public and Environmental Affairs and returned to his hometown to start his career at Benchmark Construction Company, Inc.  Bob started as an Assistant Project Manager and has served in almost every capacity throughout the business. Bob has been a part of many award-winning projects such as the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, now referred to as Millersville University's Ware Center. Currently Bob is working on LancasterHistory.org's Campus of History project which is seeking LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.  Bob is highly active in the Lancaster County Community, committing his time to non-profit organizations like Music for Everyone and Hospice and Community Care's Annual Labor Day Auction. He is also involved with the Fulton Theatre and the Hamilton Club. Bob resides in Lancaster with his wife, Kathryn, and their two children. 

The keynote speaker at the 2012 Conference & Expo will be Elizabeth Todd Lambert. This is a short synopsis of Elizabeth's history.

Cultivating an environment where the arts can flourish is the charge of the first President and CEO of LancasterARTS, Elizabeth Todd Lambert. Her academic training and experience in the arts, and in business, provide her with the tools to lead this nonprofit organization, which started up in 2007. In this role she works on a number of fronts -- marketing the arts and Lancaster as an arts destination to a broad audience; conducting research about the arts economic impact; building relationships with artists, arts organizations, key community leaders, and the media; and planning and facilitating arts-related events such as First Friday. She has been featured in numerous articles and interviews about the arts in Lancaster and collaborates regularly on arts-related initiatives with other organizations. She enjoys attending the many arts events and performances in Lancaster.

Prior to moving to Lancaster in 2006, Elizabeth spent most of her career working in the international arena. She traveled extensively and resided overseas while working on market development projects in Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Latin America as Director of Strategic Business Planning and Development for the International Group of McCormick & Company, Inc. - the world's largest spice company. She played an instrumental role in planning and implementing McCormick's first business in China and joint venture in the Philippines, as well as directing strategic planning and financial analysis for dozens of international subsidiaries and joint ventures around the world. She was also a founding member, officer, and director of the Maryland-China Business Council for 10 years.

In 2000, Elizabeth joined the International Department of Towson University in Maryland. She directed fiscal operations, created and led the Nonresident Alien Tax Office, managed a variety of faculty/staff exchanges, and interacted with hundreds of foreign national students, scholars, and professionals. She also collaborated with her academic colleagues to develop a study abroad program in China for business majors and co-taught the first session in Shanghai. This was the first such program for a Maryland university, and one of many professional development programs she helped to create.

While residing in the Baltimore area, Elizabeth served on the Boards of Young Audiences of Maryland and the Asian Arts and Culture Center at Towson University.

Elizabeth received her MBA in Finance from the University of Delaware and her Bachelor of Science in Music Education, cum laude, from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania.

By: Scott Butcher, AIA Honorary Affiliate

I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference in Boston.  While there, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hotel in which I was staying was located near two important buildings with a connection to John August Dempwolf, York's most prominent and prolific architect.  Dempwolf's firm practiced from their offices in Centre (Continental) Square in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In the early 1870s, young J.A. Dempwolf left York and relocated to New York City, studying architecture at night at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences.  After he graduated in 1873, Dempwolf did not return to York; rather, he moved to Boston where he found employment as superintendent for construction of the new Cathedral of the Holy Cross, a massive stone Gothic Revival church that took over nine years to construct.  This church, recognized today as the largest in New England, still stands, and is pictured below.

Dempwolf was not the architect for this project.  That commission was given to Patrick Keely, an architect based in New York City.  But the experience as superintendent was certainly valuable for the young Dempwolf, who was able to study the design of a nationally-prominent architect while learning the real-world relationship between design and construction. 

When Dempwolf arrived in Boston, the newly constructed Trinity Church was already making waves in the architectural world.  Located several blocks from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the year-old ecclesiastical building had a profound effect on the architecture that followed.  Henry Hobson Richardson was a Louisiana-born architect who attended Harvard then studied at the famed Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, only the second American to do so.  After returning from France, Richardson established an architectural practice in New York, later relocating to Boston.  With the design of Trinity Church in the Copley Square area, Richardson took the Romanesque Revival style that was popular at the time and employed heavy, rough-cut stone and large arches to create a variant of the style with picturesque massing and imposing rooflines.  This unique approach to Romanesque architecture became his signature (the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh is another prominent example) and inspired a generation of architects, who began to emulate his approach.  So important and influential was Trinity Church that the American Institute of Architects selected it as one of the Ten Most Important Buildings in the United States.   The building undoubtedly influenced the young Dempwolf, who would dabble in the style after returning to York.

 Perhaps the best example of Dempwolf's use of the style can be found at Centre Presbyterian Church in New Park.  Westminster Presbyterian Church on North Queen Street in York also shows the Richardson influence, though the arches have a hint of a point, not the true rounded Romanesque style.  Other Dempwolf-designed buildings exhibit a hybrid of the more common brick Romanesque Revival Style with the heavy approach favored by Richardson.  Some examples include Gettysburg College's Glatfelter Hall, Stevens School on West Philadelphia Street in York, and even York Central Market.  Some architectural historians refer to this hybrid as Victorian Romanesque - buildings that combine multiple materials (like brick and stone) and feature polychromatic tones, as opposed to the more uniform Romanesque Revival and Richardson Romanesque buildings.  As anyone who has studied historic American architecture can tell you, the authors of the popular style guides do not agree on how to identify the many H.H. Richardson-inspired buildings.  What one author identifies as Richardson Romanesque (or Richardsonian, as it is sometimes called), another might term Victorian Romanesque or simply Romanesque Revival (or even Late Romanesque Revival) - these round-arched buildings are all branches on the same tree.

Dempwolf designed many notable buildings in the Romanesque style.  The demolished York Collegiate Institute and Calvary Church are prominent examples, as are his work at the Harrisburg State Hospital, additional buildings on the campus of Gettysburg College, and Valentine Hall at the Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg.

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By: Elizabeth Johnson, Fort Hunter Museum Educator

We are looking for applicants regarding an intriguing exhibit of outdoor art installations.  This inaugural project is called "Art In The Wild: Naturally Inspired Trailside Creations"

* opening April 13, 2013, closing October 31, 2013

* at Wildwood Park in Harrisburg Pa.'s outskirts

* installations to be primarily of natural materials

* $600 first prize; $400 second prize; $200 third prize.

If you would spread the word to potential applicants, we would be very appreciative.  For more details, please see the call for entries and  application rules or visit www.wildwoodlake.org.  The exhibit is sponsored by Dauphin County Parks and Recreation.

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By: Jim Thompson, AIA 

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