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2024-2025 Abundance Talks

This series of talks, launched last Spring, continues through the 2024-2025 academic year with stories of how the abundance of natural commodities–from land itself to resources like oil, from agricultural goods to animal life–has been secured through architectural means. Over the last two years, the Buell Center has hosted discussions interrogating the core assumption that land precedes architecture. This work has been focused on the ways building, infrastructure, surveying, and related disciplines make land available for ownership and exploitation in the Americas. The theme of Abundance turns our attention more specifically to building and landscape designs that have inextricably tied the apparently endless gifts offered by earthly nature to ideas of political and economic freedom. The talks span a range of actors and geographies, from the 18th-Century United States to global sites in the present day. 

All events will be in-person and live-streamed on GSAPP’s YouTube channel. Please RSVP at [email protected].