EVENT CANCELLED—Care and Violence: On Architectural Materials, Damage, and Repair

Regretfully this lecture has been cancelled. Every effort will be made to reschedule.  

Meredith TenHoor is an architectural and urban historian, and Professor in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute. Drawing on her latest research, TenHoor will address the bodily and environmental impacts of building materials.

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Meredith TenHoor's research examines how architecture, urbanism and landscape design participate in the distribution of resources, and how these design practices have produced understandings of the limits and capacities of bodies. She has written extensively about the relationships between food and agriculture and architectural, cultural and territorial change in twentieth-century France. Other key topics are histories of justice, exclusion and displacement in architecture and urban planning; architectures of consumption and biopolitics; and the intellectual history of francophone and anglophone critical theory. Her publications include Toxics (2022), Black Lives Matter (2015), Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall (2010), and a forthcoming book about the design history and political economies of French food systems. Her newer projects address the bodily and environmental impacts of building materials, the architectural imaginaries of environmental futures, and the career of the French architect Nicole Sonolet, who designed housing, hospitals, and villages focused around the provision of care.

TenHoor is also editor, a founding board member, and former chair of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, a group devoted to publishing and advancing collaboratively-produced scholarship in architectural theory and history. With Jessica Varner, she co-edited Toxics, an open-access edited volume on deleterious materials in landscape and architecture for Aggregate.

This lecture is supported by the James A.D. Cox endowment.