My Father, the Genius

Wednesday,  Nov. 16, 2005 @ 7:30 p.m.
The Forum

Lucia Small
Independent Filmmaker

An inspiring educator and innovative environmental architect (e.g., his biomorphic biosphere mega-structure), Glen Howard Small started the 1970s on the cutting edge. By the end of the decade he had left his family for “freedom” and told the architectural world that they just didn’t get it. By the 1990s he and his dreams were largely forgotten. Recently, Small has found new audiences (notably in Nicaragua). He has also found his daughter Lucia, an independent film-maker to whom he (daringly?) entrusted his biography. For better and worse, what he got was her celebrated My Father, the Genius.

Join father, daughter, and film for this rich, at times dark, introduction to the price of vision—from alienation to confrontation, from prophecy to failure, framed in an essential questioning of the role of the architect and of the creative process in modern society