Lectures, Talks & Events

Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now

Prof Kathleen James-Chakraborty will be a speaker on the panel to launch ‘Women in Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now,’ Dana Arnold (ed.) on Tuesday, 22 October 2024. The event takes place at the Zaha Hadid Foundation, 10 Bowling Green Lane, London EC1R 0BQ. Read more

15th Oct 2024
Towards Counter-Historiographies: Regional Africa and Architectural Modernity

Nokubekezela Mchunu – Session: Decolonizing African Modern Architectural Epistemes; Conference: Ongoing and Emerging Architectural Practices, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (3-9 July 2024) Read more

5th Jul 2024
Early women architects and the Irish Country Women’s Association

Kate Buckley – Session 2: Making Space, Conference: Women designing and planning for social equality; 28th June 2024; ZHAW Institut Urban Landscape – Winterthur, Switzerland Read more

28th Jun 2024
On What Remains

Nokubekezela Mchunu – Workshop: Archival Justice in global architectural theories and histories; London Read more

26th Jun 2024
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) Read more

21st Jun 2024
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 Read more

19th Jun 2024