Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture

Lectures, Talks & Events

  • A Separate But Equal Campus?: Redeveloping a Black College in the Long Civil Rights Movement

    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 Read more

  • Chloethiel Woodard Smith and Denise Scott Brown 

    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 Read more

  • Writing Global Histories: The Belgian Friendship Building

    Writing Global Histories: The Belgian Friendship Building

    Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Architectural History & Theory Seminar Series, Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture The Belgian Pavilion for the World of Tomorrow world’s fair held in New York in 1939 and 1940 was designed in part to advertise the riches it was reaping from its colonial administration of the Congo.  The government-in-exile “gave” Read more

  • From domestic interiors to national platforms: modern architecture in the Indian Ladies Magazine in 1937

    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 Read more

  • Steeped in Influence: The Impact of Tea Advertisements on Black, Urban South African Domesticity

    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 Read more

  • House Beautiful: Introducing American Women to the World

    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 Read more