SANCTIONING MODERNISM: a symposium on post-WWII architecture

Friday, 2 March, 2007

SANCTIONING MODERNISM will be a one-day working symposium on modernism and identity in post-World War II architecture. A combination of doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, and emerging or more established scholars, will convene for three moderated panel discussions, arranged by topic and working from papers circulated in advance. Dennis Doordan will present the keynote address, concluding the day's work and reflecting on themes pertinent to all participants.

The three working sessions, addressing the appropriation of modernism in political, religious, and domestic contexts, will take place at the UT School of Architecture, Goldsmith Lecture Hall, Goldsmith 3.120:

Modernism and the State
Making Religion Modern
At Home with Modernism

The Keynote Address will be held at the Harry Ransom Center, in the Charles Nelson Prothro Theater:

Dennis Doordan

Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Art History and Design
Professor, School of Architecture
University of Notre Dame

The symposium will be accompanied by an exhibition of complimentary architectural materials drawn from the collections of the Alexander Architectural Archives. The exhibition will open on 2 Mar, and will remain on view in the Architecture Library Reading Room, in Cass Gilbert's Battle Hall through April 2007.

For more information, see: http://soa.utexas.edu/sanctioningmodernism/ Questions? Write to the Graduate Students in Architectural History office at the UT School of Architecture: