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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) Read more
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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… Read more
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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 Read more
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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… Read more
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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
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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… Read more