Category: Lectures & Talks
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A ‘Separate But Equal’ Campus?: Civil Rights and Architecture at Tennessee A&I State College, 1940-1959
George Francis-Kelly – Session: Black Athens: Curating Archives, Campus, and Historians within Nashville’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Conference: 2024 Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference, University of Southampton (19-21 June 2024)
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Ise Gropius and the Domestication of Modernist Design in English-language Media
Alborz Dianat – Session: Media and Objects of the Home (Building Word Image interest group); Conference: EAHN 2024, Athens (19-23 June 2024) This paper considers the importance of authorship in relaying domestic design through media, as demonstrated by Ise Gropius’s navigation of English-language publications. After marrying Walter Gropius in 1923, Ise Gropius established herself as…
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A Separate But Equal Campus?: Redeveloping a Black College in the Long Civil Rights Movement
George Francis-Kelly – HI Lunchtime Seminar Series, UCD Humanities Institute University College Dublin
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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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From domestic interiors to national platforms: modern architecture in the Indian Ladies Magazine in 1937
Pooja Sastry – IV Congreso Internacional Cultura Y Cuidad, Granada, Spain This paper will focus on the rich cross-cultural exchanges that informed the dissemination of modern architecture in India in the 1930s as seen through the Indian Ladies Magazine. Published in two runs from 1901-1917 and 1927-1938, the Indian Ladies Magazine was an English-language magazine…
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Steeped in Influence: The Impact of Tea Advertisements on Black, Urban South African Domesticity
Nokubekezela Mchunu – IV Congreso Internacional Cultura Y Cuidad, Granada, Spain The introduction of tea to colonies by Britain transcended the beverage itself; it represented a profound cultural and societal influence. Its impact extended to architecture and modernised living, shaping domestic histories in colonies such as South Africa during and after the nineteenth century. To…
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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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“Ordering the life of the state”: Affluent women and craft industries in 1930s British India
Pooja Sastry – Workshop: Toward a Multifaceted History of Architecture and Internationalism, Reed Hall, University of Exeter (16-17 November 2023) This presentation focuses on the international exchanges that influenced the patronage of Indian crafts by affluent women in 1930s British India as seen through the archives of two publications: the Indian Ladies’ Magazine and The Illustrated Weekly 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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P. Morton Shand: The Architectural Critic Between British and European Modernism
Alborz Dianat – UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023, University College Dublin.
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 