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P. Morton Shand: The Architectural Critic Between British and European Modernism
Alborz Dianat – UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023, University College Dublin. Read more
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Expanding Agency: House Beautiful and the Dissemination of Modern Architecture and Design
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – UCD Retired Staff Association Autumn Lecture, University College Dublin. This was an informal talk interleafing the distinguished track record of UCD-trained women in designing some of the world’s most notable recent academic buildings, what I have learned through my research into House Beautiful, especially in the years that it was edited by… Read more
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Writing Global Histories: Henry van de Velde and the Belgian Friendship Building
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Bauhaus & Beyond Symposium, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Henry van de Velde established the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, Germany, that his successor, Walter Gropius, transformed into the Bauhaus. Speaking in a building designed by van de Velde and used by the Bauhaus, I offered an alternative to the usual… Read more
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How to Succeed as a Woman: Chloethiel Woodward Smith and the Journalists who Promoted Her
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Workshop on Gender, ‘Rethinking Architectural Legacies’, Collaborative workshop between Manchester School of Architecture and the Zaha Hadid Foundation. The Zaha Hadid Foundation provided an appropriate setting for exploring the way in which Chloethiel Woodard Smith’s career had been furthered by the sympathetic profiles written of her by women journalists. This was part… Read more
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The College In the Coming Age
George Francis-Kelly – Fisk University’s Cravath Hall and The Harlem Renaissance on Southern Black College Campuses, Designing Urban Universities Conference, Trinity College Dublin. Read more
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An Overlooked Example of European Modernism on an American Campus
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – Designing Urban Universities Conference, Trinity College Dublin. This conference paper was intended to re-visit the subject of my earlier lecture on the Belgian Friendship Building, given at Trinity the previous year, in the context of a conference on modern university architecture and its relationship to its host cities. Read more
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Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 