This free, public event will be hosted via Zoom. Registration is required.

This event runs from 17h00-18h00 (Central European Time) on Wednesday 8 July.

Instructions on how to participate virtually will be emailed on 8 July shortly before the event.

Please join us for a conversation with Alex Beam, author of "Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight over a Modernist Masterpiece."

“Alex Beam begins with a simple foundation—a man, a woman, and a house—out of which he constructs a nuanced biography of one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating architects, a portrait of his brilliant and pioneering patron, and a dramatic tale of the impassioned battle over a work of art that consumed them both.  Broken Glass is compelling from the first page as it chronicles, in delicious and sometimes hilarious detail, the mere mortals behind a Modern masterpiece.” —Mary Gabriel, author of "Ninth Street Women"

ALEX BEAM has been a columnist for  The Boston Globe since 1987. He previously served as the Moscow bureau chief for Business Week. He is the author of three works of nonfiction: "American Crucifixion, The Feud, Gracefully Insane," and "A Great Idea at the Time;" the latter two were New York Times Notable Books. Beam has also written for The Atlantic, Slate, and Forbes/FYI. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.