Category: Lectures & Talks
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Architectural Book Awards 2026
The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU, by Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherine M. Kuenzli and Bryan Clark Green has been announced a joint winner in the Best Architectural History Book category at The Architectural Book Award 2026.
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EAHN 2026 Aarhus
Ipek Mehmetoglu joined the “Methods for Researching Collaboration and Gender in the Histories of Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design Workshop” organized by the Gender in Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design Special Interest Group at the EAHN conference. She presented her work on the architectural contributions of a women’s volunteer organisation, the Friends of Children Association founded in Turkey…
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EAHN 2026 Aarhus
Alborz Dianat participated in a roundtable discussion as part of the ‘Building Word Image’ Special Interest Group of EAHN. He presented on Designs for Homes (1934), a book by the architect and ‘psychological consultant’ Grace Cope that introduced scientific conceptions of the mind to the design of domestic spaces.
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Impressions from the ‘Minding Her Business’ book launch
We were delighted to celebrate the launch of Minding Her Business on 11 June 2026 at the Irish Architectural Archive in Dublin. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the event.
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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