# Event Details

- **Event Name**: KC Design Week "Why are There McMansions?" Talk
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 23 Apr, 2025 at 05:30 pm – Wed, 23 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Infamous for its bloated size architectural pastiche and its association with the Great Recession-era the McMansion is one of the most universally recognized symbols of American excess. However far from being a solely American phenomenon the McMansion has since been replicated all over the world from the UK to Oman Serbia to China. But what really is a McMansion and how did these bad manors come about in the first place? After eight years of studying the phenomenon through the blog McMansion Hell the architecture critic Kate Wagner is ready to present her findings. What seemed like an overnight fad of the post-Reagan years it turns out has its cultural roots in the American conception of what homes are and should do for us made possible - but by no means inevitable - by economic and technological developments along the way. Read more here: https://www.kcdesignweek.org/events/why-are-there-mcmansions. KC Design Week is a week-long series of thought-provoking and creativity-boosting design programming hosted by the Center for Architecture & Design. Since 2010 KC Design Week has informed connected and inspired thousands of design enthusiasts through programs featuring experts from fields such as architecture graphics interiors products landscape architecture planning and urban environments. KC Design Week is open to the public and tickets may be purchased online at kcdesignweek.org.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kansas-city/kc-design-week-why-are-there-mcmansions-talk/80002639469955
- **Event Categories**: nonprofit, nonprofit, it
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Kansas City
- **state**: MO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Kansas City Public Library: Central Branch
- **lat**: 39.0997265000
- **long**: -94.5785667000
- **full address**: Kansas City Public Library: Central Branch, 14 W 10th St, Kansas City, United States

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: Event Photo 1
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn2.allevents.in/thumbs/live67fee6b442855.jpg

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is KC Design Week "Why are There McMansions?" Talk being held?
  - **A:** KC Design Week "Why are There McMansions?" Talk takes place on Wed, 23 Apr, 2025 at 05:30 pm to Wed, 23 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm at Kansas City Public Library: Central Branch, 14 W 10th St, Kansas City, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing KC Design Week "Why are There McMansions?" Talk?
  - **A:** KC Design Week "Why are There McMansions?" Talk is organized by Robyn Caulfield.

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