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Paulo Mendes Da Rocha – Architecture in America: a Technical Issue

Lecture date: 1998-11-11 Paulo Mendes da Rocha discusses the discovery of America and the concept of the modern world; architecture as transformation technique; the constitution...

Alexander Tzonis – North American Architecture Since 1960: From Populism To Dirty Realism

Lecture date: 1996-01-16 A lecture held in celebration of the publication of Architecture in North America since 1960 by Richard Diamond, Liane Lefaivre and Alexander...

Barry Bergdoll, “Learning from the Americas: Gropius and Breuer in the New World”

Barry Bergdoll will present a short lecture on Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, arguing that the Bauhaus emigrés did not only have an impact...

Lecture: Christopher Benfey, “Starting from Zero at Black Mountain and Harvard

Lecture: Christopher Benfey, "Starting from Zero at Black Mountain and Harvard: Albers, Gropius, and "America" (1950)" This talk will explore one aesthetic strand of the...