Architecture, design, history are the topics

MIDDLETOWN — Local architect, Andrew Warren, RA LEEDAP of David Wieboldt, Architects, Middletown will share his knowledge of architecture, design, and sustainability, and his love of history in the first in a series of architecture lectures at the newly opened Rowley Center for Science & Engineering (RCSE) at SUNY Orange. Warren is an adjunct assistant professor in the college’s architectural technology degree program and also holds a bachelor in architecture degree from Pratt Institute.

Entitled 19th C Fortification of the East Coast of the U.S. - The Rise & Fall of a Construction Type - The Unit Masonry Fortress, the lecture will cover specific information about forts along the east coast of the United States, and how they shaped history during their primetime functionality.

Warren will also explain how technology in every era evolves and concurrently security changes with time and often drives technology with its needs.

This presentation is free and open to the public and will be held on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 at 7 p.m. in lecture room 010 on the ground floor of RCSE accessed via the parking area and entrance at the corner of East Conkling and Wawayanda Avenues. Architects and engineers will receive a certificate for one PDH-CEU for lecture attendance.

Questions may be directed to 845-341-4891 and cultural@sunyorange.edu, or go to the website, www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs.