Category: Lectures & Talks
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The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU
Kathleen will deliver the lecture “The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU,” as part of the the HAA Guest Lecture Series, sponsored by Boston University Center for the Humanities. Thursday, 1 October 2026, with a reception at 5:00 p.m. and the lecture at 6:00 p.m. at the Howard…
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Writing Against Masculinist Histories of Modern Architecture: Ethel Power and Eleanor Raymond versus the Museum of Modern Art
Kathleen James-Chakraborty will deliver the 2026 Harry Halverson Lecture on American Architecture, “Writing Against Masculinist Histories of Modern Architecture: Ethel Power and Eleanor Raymond versus the Museum of Modern Art”. Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 5:00 pm in Collins Cinema, Wellesley College, MA, USA. Historians of modern architecture have largely accepted Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell…
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Expanding Agency and Archival Silences: Gender in the Built Environment
The School of Architecture at the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), together with PATIO, Curating for Culture, the Omitted from History Project (OMHI), and the Women of Vaastukala Archive (WoVA), will host Expanding Agency and Archival Silences: Gender in the Built Environment from 4–8 September 2026 at the Bangalore International Centre, Karnataka, India. Kathleen James-Chakraborty…
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Expanding Agency mourns the passing of Prof. Christine Casey and extends its profound sympathy to her family and to the team of our sister project STONE-WORK, which pioneered an inclusive approach to writing the history of architecture focused on an attentiveness to labour and to materials that will continue to inspire for decades to come.
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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