12 High St.
Moorestown
NJ 08057
Please join us for the Opening Night of our new exhibit,
Malcolm Wells: One Man’s Crusade To Save The Environment Through Architecture.
Malcolm Wells, designer of the former Moorestown Municipal Complex, championed environmentally responsible design and was considered the father of modern earth-sheltered architecture. The exhibit will focus on Wells’ early conventional architecture, his innovative period, and his futuristic ambitions.
Malcolm B Wells And His Revolutionary “Underground Building” [Photo courtesy of Cherry Hill Library]
“In 1959, at Taliesin West [near Phoenix, Arizona], I stepped out of the hot desert sunlight into this little open-to-the-air theatre, and marveled for a moment or two at Mr. [Frank Lloyd] Wright’s genius, his ability to carry a design through into the tiniest of details, before it struck me that I was suddenly cool and comfortable there under a mantle of earth. It took me only five more years to get the message. In 1964, I suddenly had a brilliant and original idea: buildings should be underground!”
Friday September 29th, 5 to 8pm.
Refreshments will be served.
Smith-Cadbury Mansion
12 High St., Moorestown
The exhibit will be on view September 29, 2023-May 14, 2024
