Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock’s artful, sometimes literal, sometimes distorted use of San Francisco architecture and geography in his 1957 suspense movie “Vertigo” is the topic of “The Architecture of Vertigo,” a free lecture by Sandy McLendon at 6 p.m. Thursday, 1 February, at the Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville, Kentucky.

McLendon is an architecture and design writer; editor of www.jetsetmodern.com, an online design magazine; and author of “PreFAB Elements” (HarperCollins: 2005). The talk is presented by the Hite Art Institute as part of the Frederic Lindley Morgan Lecture Series at the University of Louisville.