Kathleen James-Chakraborty – In-person seminar at the Humanities Institute, UCD. Focusing on Ethel Power, Ethel Bailey Madison Furman, and Chloethiel Woodard Smith, this talk presented preliminary observations on my research into their careers.  It detailed what I know about the way in which House Beautiful, which Power edited, prepared women to be consumers of a… Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – SAH Connects webinar House Beautiful was presented as an example of the way in which women were trained to be consumers of architecture and design and as a publication which also showcased the work of female architects, landscape architects, and designers, while publishing many articles authored by women.  The lecture also touched… Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – In-person seminar at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Built for the World’s Fair held in 1939 and 1940 in New York city’s Flushing Meadow and designed by Henry van de Velde in collaboration with Victor Bourgeois and Léon Stynen, the Belgian Building was subsequently re-erected on the grounds of Virginia Union University, a… Read more

Kathleen James-Chakraborty – In-person seminar at University of Toronto, Canada. For a seminar of doctoral students from architecture and art history, this presentation introduced the Belgian Friendship Building in roughly the same terms as the lecture later that month at Trinity College. Read more