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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
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – UCD Festival, University College Dublin. This was an informal talk that ended up focusing on the Belgian Friendship Building as an example of the way in which global histories of modern architecture are being written at UCD. Read more
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Expanding Agency: Researching the Diversity of Women’s Contributions to the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture
Kathleen James-Chakraborty – webinar, Architecture: Design and Research International Seminar organised by a research collaboration between the Manchester School of Architecture, the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture and the Lusófona University This zoom lecture focused on three aspects of the project, House Beautiful, the Belgian Friendship Building, and the career of Ethel Madison Bailey… Read more