Category: Lectures & Talks
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Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture
The Liverpool School of Architecture is hosting the Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture exhibition. The exhibition is open Monday to Friday, 09:00-17:00, from 15th-27th April 2026 at the Liverpool School of Architecture, Bedford Street N, Liverpool. PhD candidate Pooja Sastry spoke on 15 April 2026 as part of the…
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Reclaiming Modernism: Women at the Intersection of Architecture, Textiles and Fashion
Paula Arning presented the paper ‘Reclaiming Modernism: Women at the Intersection of Architecture, Textiles and Fashion’ at the symposium Is this it? Alternative Histories of Design and the Design Professions, held on 10 April 2026 at the University of Applied Arts (Angewandte), Vienna. https://www.dieangewandte.at/en/news/detail?artikel_id=1773805344982
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Writing Against Masculinst Histories of Modern Architecture: Ethel Power and Eleanor Raymond versus the Museum of Modern Art
Kathleen James-Chakraborty delivers a talk titled ‘Writing Against Masculinst Histories of Modern Architecture: Ethel Power and Eleanor Raymond versus the Museum of Modern Art.’ 2nd April, 5:00pm at the Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub. Historians of modern architecture have largely accepted Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock’s claims of having introduced the International Style…
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An Architectural Gift
This article highlights the recent book by co-authors Katherine Kuenzli and Kathleen James-Chakraborty, The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU. It outlines the building’s complex transatlantic history, from its origins at the 1939 New York World’s Fair to its reconstruction at Virginia Union University. The co-authors also discuss…
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Book Talk Impressions
Retrospective on the book presentation of The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU, exploring the remarkable history of the Belgian Friendship Building, a modernist structure designed under the direction of Henry van de Velde, originally created for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York and later given a…
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Vernacular Logics in Modernist Design: Eileen Gray and Margaret Leischner
Paula Arning presents her paper, ‘Vernacular Logics in Modernist Design: Eileen Gray and Margaret Leischner’ at the VAF 2026 Annual Meeting in Walla Walla, Washington, from 27–30 May 2026. https://www.vafweb.org/page-1821971
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An Architectural Network of Women’s Labor: The Turkish Charity Association
Dr Ipek Mehmetoglu presents her paper, ‘An Architectural Network of Women’s Labor: The Turkish Charity Association,’ at the VAF 2026 Annual Meeting in Walla Walla, Washington, from 27–30 May 2026. https://www.vafweb.org/page-1821971
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Book Talk: The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU
Kathleen James-Chakraborty participates in a book lecture on The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU, together with Katherine M. Kuenzli, at the Boekentoren (Ghent University Library) on 25 February 2026. Date: 25 February 2026, 18:30Location: Boekentoren, Ghent University Library Registration required: https://boekentoren.gent/en/articles/book-talk-the-belgian-friendship-building-from-the-new-york-worlds-fair-to-a-virginia-hbcu
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Ethel Bailey Furman and the Struggle for Design Credit
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents her paper ‘Ethel Bailey Furman and the Struggle for Design Credit’ at the III International Congress: Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes — Architecture, Cities, Labour, taking place 11–13 February at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
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From the Belgian Pavilion to the Belgian Friendship Building: A Remnant of New York’s 1939 World’s Fair
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents her paper, ‘From the Belgian Pavilion to the Belgian Friendship Building: A Remnant of New York’s 1939 World’s Fair,’ at the ISIE Speaker Series on January 22, 2026. https://www.isie-global.org/
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 