October 27, 1 pm EST, Avery Hall 114, Columbia GSAPP
This event will be held in person and on Zoom. Please email buellcenter@columbia.edu to RSVP or register for the Zoom link.
The Buell Center invites you to Unsettling Land, an event celebrating three interrelated Buell timelines: the booklet capstoning the “Architecture and Land” series; the opening of the “100 Links” installation at the Chicago Architecture Biennial; and 40 years of the Buell Center.
The event will host several conversations and stories from the long history of settlement, its tools, its struggles and its solidarities. Speakers will include Jo Guldi (Emory University, author of The Long Land War) and Timothy Hyde (MIT), and include a moderated discussion between AD–WO and the curators Floating Museum. To mark 40 years since the foundation of the Buell Center, the event will conclude with a celebratory toast and reception.
Speakers:
Jo Guldi (Emory University)
Timothy Hyde (MIT)
Floating Museum (Curators of the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial)
AD-WO
Jo Guldi completed her PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and is currently Professor (in Practice) of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University. Previously, Dr. Guldi held positions mainly in Departments of History at the University of Chicago, the Harvard Society of Fellows, Brown University, and Southern Methodist University. Dr. Guldi's research into quantitative methods focuses on improving AI approaches to understanding our past. Her historical research concerns the history of property rights, the origins of eminent domain, and the story of rent control. Her articles have been published in the American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, and Annales. From 2015-2021 she was PI of a $1 million NSF grant entitled "The Unaffordable World." Her award-winning books have been covered in The Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Boston Review, and Guardian.
Timothy Hyde is a historian of architecture whose research focuses on the political dimensions of architecture from the eighteenth century to the present, with a particular attention to relationships of architecture and law. His most recent book Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye (Princeton University Press, 2019) explores episodes in aesthetic debates on architecture and ugliness in Great Britain over the past three centuries and reveals the ways in which architectural discourse participated in the legal formulations of social techniques of the modern city. He is also the author of Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959 (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) which examines the entanglements of architecture, planning, and law in the years leading up to and following from the promulgation of a new Cuban constitution in 1940.
