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… Read more

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 Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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 Read more