The Politics of Modernism: Architecture and Power in the Postwar Decades

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Israel Institute of Technology; Juliana Maxim, University of San Diego

Tensions in Postwar Italian Architecture: Receptions and Rejections of American Modernism during the Cold War

Paolo Scrivano, University of Toronto


Monumentality by the Linear Foot: Carlu's Temporary UN and the Architecture of Parliamentary Diplomacy

Lucia Allais, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Sea, Sun, and Modernism: Leisure as a Political Strategy in Socialist Romania

Carmen Popescu


A Constitutional Modernism: Law, Planning, and Architecture in Postwar Cuba

Timothy Hyde, Harvard University


Alvar Aalto, the Discourse of Universal Humanist Architecture, and Finland’s Geopolitical Dilemma after the Second World War

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale University


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