06/23/2026
Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 6PM - 8PM
In-Talks: Gregory Scott & Michael Bartmann Architecture, Art & the Meaning of Place
What is it about certain buildings that stays with us?
Join architect, historian, and author Gregory Scott and artist Michael Bartmann for an evening exploring the intersection of architecture, memory, history, and artistic inspiration.
Gregory Scott is an architect, Partner Emeritus of RLPS Architects, architectural historian, and author of “Urban Legend: The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban.” Throughout his career, he has contributed to the built environment through architectural practice while also advancing an understanding of Lancaster’s architectural heritage through research and writing. His work reflects a deep interest in the buildings, histories, and people that shape a community’s sense of place.
Michael Bartmann is an accomplished artist whose work explores the emotional and atmospheric qualities of space. Deeply inspired by Lancaster’s Stehli Silk Mill and other industrial environments, he is drawn to the in-between—the quiet interval when buildings stand between what they were and what they will become. Neither abandoned nor renewed, these spaces linger in a state of possibility. Moving fluidly between representation and abstraction, his paintings transform architecture into meditations on memory, perception, atmosphere, and place.
Though working in different disciplines, both men have spent years looking closely at the built environment. Their worlds intersect at places such as Lancaster’s Stehli Silk Mill—a landmark designed by C. Emlen Urban that has served as a lasting source of inspiration for Bartmann’s work and occupies an important place within Scott’s study of Lancaster’s architectural legacy.
Meeting publicly for the first time, Scott and Bartmann will engage in an unscripted conversation about the buildings that capture our imagination, the spaces that shape our memories, and the ways architecture continues to influence both artistic expression and community identity. Rather than a lecture, this will be an organic exchange between two individuals connected by a shared curiosity about place, history, and the enduring power of the built environment.
Reception and audience Q&A to follow.
