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FOREVER YOUNG:How Endless Possibility as an AmericanBirthright Shapes Our Cities and Our MindsThrough a series of images from world-class cities––Paris, Milan, Venice, andNew York––Holly Brubach will reveal the bedrock principles underlying them.

“Cities are constantly editing themselves,” she says. “In Europe, the continuedsurvival of old buildings serves as an everyday reminder of history, as peopletread the same sidewalks and inhabit the same rooms as generations of othersbefore them.

“How can we in America incorporate the past into our contemporaryurban environments? Having spent years abroad as a resident of other cultures,I’m convinced that preservation can help us transform our attitudes as a societyand our lives as individuals.”

Thursday, November 29, 20126:00 to 7:30 P.M. (including a reception following the lecture)

Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland$5.00: PHLF members, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh members, & students$10.00: Non-members

Reservations required by November 26: marylu@phlf.org(412-471-5808, ext. 527)This event is limited to 175 people and is part of PHLF’s continuing series,Architecture and Historic Preservation Abroad. PHLF thanks The Fine Foundationfor helping underwrite this event through a grant in support of educational programsrelated to Pittsburgh architecture.

Holly BrubachA gracious, multi-talented Pittsburghnative and former dancer, HollyBrubach is invested in Pittsburgh’sdowntown revitalization efforts andis internationally known as a result ofher extraordinary career as a fashionconsultant, journalist, author, andfilmmaker.

After years of livingin New York, Paris,and Milan, Hollyreturned to Pittsburghin 2007, purchasedthe Granite Buildingof 1889 on Sixth

Avenue, and is adapting it for newuses. Her interest is in “imaginingnew lives for old buildings and inincorporating historic architecture ina contemporary cityscape, creatinga conversation between the pastand present.”

Pittsburgh has become her base ofoperation, as she consults with clientsworldwide on fashion and productdesign and writes for numerousnational publications, includingThe New York Times Magazine. Hollyis president of Studio Holly Brubach,LLC, a member of the board of bothPHLF and Carnegie Museum of Art,and a Distinguished Daughter ofPennsylvania.

Images fromMilan: notice thejuxtaposition andcoexistence of

antique, old, modern, andcontemporary–and the concertedeffort, through signs and plaques,to educate people about the pastand the buildings that form thelandscape of their everyday lives.

Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation and theHeinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art,invite you to an illustrated lecture by Holly Brubach