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SESAH Publication 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 is recipient of a 2026 Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Best Architectural Book Award. https://sesah.org/past-awardees/ Read more
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Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture
The Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture exhibition will be hosted by the The School of Architecture, Art and Design, Universidade do Minho. To open the exhibition, Kathleen James-Chakraborty will participate in an open conversation with Andreia Garcia, João Rosmaninho, Jorge Correia, and Sarah Shrbaji to discuss the exhibition, the… Read more
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The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU
Kathleen James-Chakraborty 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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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. Read more