Thursday, September 28, 2017 — The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Friday, September 29, 2017 — The Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University
The question of how to live in America preoccupied many architects and planners—from Frank Lloyd Wright to the consortium behind Harlem’s first public
housing proposals—in the mid-twentieth century. This symposium gathered housing scholars for a conversation that bridged what might otherwise seem
like disparate realms of inquiry in order to reassess received histories and to provoke new questions about how we live in America, together, today.
September 28, The Museum of Modern Art
Titus Theater 2, 11 West 53rd Street
6pm, Viewing of Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive
7-8:30pm, "Where was Jim Crow? Living in Wright's America."
Symposium Keynote Presentation, Dianne Harris, University of Utah
Please register before September 25 to adevents@moma.org.
September 29, The Lantern at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street (West of Broadway)
10am-5:30pm
Session 1:
"The Meander and the Grid: At the Edge of American Urbanization"
Shiben Banerji, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"The Airtight Cage and the Affluent Society: Race and Place at Midcentury"
Jennifer Hock, Maryland Institute College of Art
Session 2:
"The Farmer in the Rearview Mirror: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Agrarianism"
Joseph M. Watson, University of British Columbia
"Design and Social Movements: Architects, Activists, and the Modernist Discourse on Affordable Housing"
Jana Cephas, University of Michigan
Session 3:
"Living Separately: Managing Racial Residential Segregation through Public Housing at Harlem River Houses"
Kevin McGruder, Antioch College
"Broadacre City Versus the 'Slum Solution'"
Catherine Maumi, Grenoble School of Architecture
Session 4:
"Landscapes of Control: Harlem’s Black Power Urbanism in the Suburban Age"
Brian Goldstein, Swarthmore College
"Liminal Spaces: Resisting the Laissez-Faire Metropolis"
Jennifer Gray, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Please register at wallach.columbia.edu.
Presented in association with the exhibition, Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem & Modern Housing, which was curated by The Temple
Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP),
and was co-presented by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and and The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, in correlation with Frank Lloyd
Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York through October 1, 2017. Columbia's School of the Arts is an
additional sponsor for the symposium.
