Middlebury College professor Erin Sassin will look at how the idea of the single-family home has changed through America's history in a talk at First Congregational Church in Manchester on January 8 at 7:00 pm. Her talk, "Reinventing the Family Home," is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. Talks in Manchester are hosted by Manchester Community Library.

Sassin will examine how American reformers and homeowners have, in pursuit of "the simple life," attempted to reinvent the form and idea of the single-family home, from farmhouses and communal experiments to the current tiny house phenomenon.

Sassin completed her PhD in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University in 2012. Her teaching examines the intersection and co-dependence of the worlds of fine art, design, and architecture in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and housing reform and identity politics in architecture in particular. She teaches courses with subject matter as varied as the architecture and urbanism of Berlin, nationalism and identity in Central European architecture, the American Home, methods and theories in architectural design, and architectural utopias from St. Augustine to the present.

For info, call the Library at 802-362-2607.
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