Architectural thinking/presentation Thursday night

From Bell Clement, director, Historical Society of Washington:

On Thursday, February 8, at 6:30 p.m., the Historical Society of Washington will host a presentation from D.C.'s new city journal, dcenter, at The Carnegie on Mount Vernon Square, 801 K Street, N.W. (please use our south, K Street, entrance).

Editor Julian Hunt and Randall Ott, Dean of Catholic University's School of Architecture will discuss this new endeavor, which aims to create a link that "strengthens the connections between the architectural communty, the municipality and the public," and which ambitions to offer the writing and criticism a great city deserve. Editor Hunt predicts that dcenter offerings will "be controversial, sometimes wrong -- or just irritating, but necessarily so."

Hunt and Ott will be joined for this discussion by first issue contributors Mark David Richards ("Excremental Progress"), Uwe Brandes ("Recapturing the Anacostia River"), and Adnan Morshed ("Urbanity of Henry James's Washington"). Copies of dcenter's maiden issue and subscriptions will be for sale. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended. Please RSVP or call 383-1837.