Category: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
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Chloethiel Woodard Smith and Denise Scott Brown
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Session: Imagining Pasts; Conference: AIARG 2024, Dublin (14-15 March 2024) In 1977 the work of Chloethiel Woodard Smith and Denise Scott Brown wereaddressed in the same chapter of the pathbreaking book Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective edited by Susana Torre.Since then Smith has faded into near oblivion while…
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House Beautiful: Introducing American Women to the World
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – IV Congreso Internacional Cultura Y Cuidad, Granada House Beautiful, established in 1896, was the first shelter magazine, that is a publication that focused on introducing readers, most of whom were women, to new ideas regarding architecture, interior design, and gardening. Its audience, in other words, comprised the consumers rather than producers of…
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Bauhaus Style
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Observations: Moments in Design History, National Gallery of Victoria, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne has a number of works produced by men who studied and taught at the Bauhaus, but apparently none by women affiliated with the school. This lecture, which was pre-recorded and available for Friends of the museum…
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An Overlooked Example of European Modernism on an American Campus
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Designing Urban Universities Conference, Trinity College Dublin. This conference paper was intended to re-visit the subject of my earlier lecture on the Belgian Friendship Building, given at Trinity the previous year, in the context of a conference on modern university architecture and its relationship to its host cities.
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Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – UCD Festival, University College Dublin. This was an informal talk that ended up focusing on the Belgian Friendship Building as an example of the way in which global histories of modern architecture are being written at UCD.
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Expanding Agency: Researching the Diversity of Women’s Contributions to the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – webinar, Architecture: Design and Research International Seminar organised by a research collaboration between the Manchester School of Architecture, the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture and the Lusófona University This zoom lecture focused on three aspects of the project, House Beautiful, the Belgian Friendship Building, and the career of Ethel Madison Bailey…
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How to Succeed as a Woman: Chloethiel Woodard Smith and the Journalists who Promoted Her
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – in-person lecture, SAH Latrobe Chapter, Washington, DC. For two decades, from 1963 to 1983, Chloethiel Woodard Smith ran the largest woman owned architectural practice in the United States. Smith despised being labeled as a woman architect, but there were many ways in which her gender proved useful to her, even as she…
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Art and Architectural History in a Global World
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – in-person conference paper, Transnationalising the Classroom Symposium, Humanities Institute, UCD This talk argued for the importance of global approaches to architectural history as well as tracing some of the history of doing so and the challenges involved. Weblink: https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/research/transnationalisingthehumanities/events/
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Expanding Agency: Three Women and Modern Architectural Culture in the United States
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – In-person seminar at the Humanities Institute, UCD. Focusing on Ethel Power, Ethel Bailey Madison Furman, and Chloethiel Woodard Smith, this talk presented preliminary observations on my research into their careers. It detailed what I know about the way in which House Beautiful, which Power edited, prepared women to be consumers of a…
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Conserving Histories, Women and Transnational Collaborations
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – SAH Connects webinar House Beautiful was presented as an example of the way in which women were trained to be consumers of architecture and design and as a publication which also showcased the work of female architects, landscape architects, and designers, while publishing many articles authored by women. The lecture also touched…
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 