James-Chakraborty Lab

Research focus

ERC Advanced Grant · 2020

Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture

Expanding Agency will explore the role that women and members of ethnic minorities, primarily African-Americans, played in transmitting modern architecture and design internationally, including within Europe, between 1920 and 1970. Strands devoted to patronage, journalism, entrepreneurship, and institution building will offer alternatives to accounts that focus primarily on architects. This will expand our understanding of who had agency in this important story and more generally in the shaping of the built environment. Taking a global approach that stresses comparisons across continents will also help build a more nuanced understanding of how architecture, landscape architecture, interior…

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