{"id":7183,"date":"2016-07-12T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2016-07-25T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:21:09","slug":"kristin-anderson-star-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/12\/kristin-anderson-star-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadium expert Kristin Anderson speaks with<br \/>Star Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2012\/07\/anderso3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"498\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Kristin Anderson gives tours and presentations at Target Field focusing on architecture, sustainability issues, and art at the ballpark.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At Augsburg College, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/anderso3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristin Anderson<\/a> teaches courses on the history of art and architecture, and she\u2019s prepared to talk about works ranging from the Mona Lisa to the Metrodome.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson\u2019s current writing and research are focused on sports architecture, and she is co-authoring a book on the history of athletic facilities in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis&#8217; new U.S. Bank Stadium is scheduled to open its doors to the public following a ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 22, and Anderson offered an explanation in the\u00a0Star Tribune as to why the facility&#8217;s design needed to be bold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery sports broadcast will open with a view of the stadium, the skyline shot, the establishing view of the city,\u201d she said. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t distinctive or if it were ugly like the Metrodome, that\u2019s not the statement you want to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/as-stadium-opens-vikings-and-city-sail-into-a-new-era\/386100791\/\">As stadium opens, Vikings and city sail into new era<\/a>&#8221; on\u00a0the Star Tribune website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Augsburg College, Kristin Anderson teaches courses on the history of art and architecture, and she\u2019s prepared to talk about works ranging from the Mona Lisa to the Metrodome. Anderson\u2019s current writing and research are focused on sports architecture, and she is co-authoring a book on the history of athletic facilities in the Twin Cities. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3878,3664,1617,2692,3884],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-architectural-history","tag-art-history","tag-kristin-anderson","tag-star-tribune","tag-us-bank-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}