Buell Dissertation Colloquium

Friday, March 28, 2025
5:00 PM Welcome: Lucia Allais (Buell Center, GSAPP)

Keynote: “‘In the Life of a Building Our Moment is Brief’: J. Max Bond, Jr.’s Long View,“ Brian Goldstein (Swarthmore).

Response by Maura Lucking (Buell Center, GSAPP)

Saturday, March 29, 2025

10:00 AM Introduction: Lucia Allais (Buell Center, GSAPP)

PANEL 1
10:10 AM “‘Being Signed by me, Becomes my Own’: Bureaucracy and Authorship at the Office of the Supervising Architect,” Ultan Byrne (GSAPP)

10:35 AM “Lichens on Stones: the National Ecologies of Architecture in the United States,” Hugo Betting (Harvard GSD)

11:00 AM “Building the Neighborhood Center: The War on Poverty and the Emergence of the ‘Minority Architect,’” Jeremy Lee Wolin (Princeton)

11:25 AM Discussion moderated by Jonah Rowen (Pratt)

PANEL 2
1:00 PM “Between Co-optation and Critique: Aided Self-Help Housing and the Question of Land in Lima, 1958-1975,” Madeleine Aquilina (UMich Art History)

1:25 PM “General Contractor, General Motors: Architects’ Experiments in the Manufactured Housing Industry, c.1970,” Melanie R. Ball (UT Austin)

1:50 PM “On-Site Modernities: The BRECAST Large-Panel System and the Transformation of Housing Production in Popular Unity Chile, 1972-1974,” Felipe Aravena Tejo (University of Manchester)

2:15 PM Discussion moderated by Sonali Dhanpal (Buell Center, GSAPP)

PANEL 3

3:00 PM “Workers, Conscripts, Peons: Tracing the Construction of the Pan-American Highway and the Mechanics of the ‘Joint’ War Effort,” Dicle Taskin (UMich)

3:25 PM “Public Demands and Private Development in the Age of Ecology: The Case of Sea Ranch v. California Coastal Commission,” B. Jack Hanly (MIT)

3:50 PM “New-Age Environmentalism: The Lindisfarne Association at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,” Rami Kanafani (Penn)

4:15 PM Discussion moderated by Reinhold Martin (GSAPP)

5:00 PM Concluding Conversation