Day: March 31, 2015
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“Monumentality for the Masses”
The Dean of the College and the Art History Program present a lecture Ana Maria León Massachusetts institute of Technology This lecture examines a series of texts, images, and architectural projects produced in 1930s and 1940s Argentina, and how they participated in the intellectual, poetic, and spatial construction of the city of Buenos Aires as…
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Building the Case: Design and Media at the International Military Tribunal, c. 1945
The Dean of the College and the Art History Program present Olga Touloumi Harvard University During four short months in the summer of 1945, the Office of Strategic Services, IBM, and landscape architect Dan Kiley prepared Courtroom 600 for the Nuremberg Trials. Planned as a “world spectacle,” the project required a wide mobilization of resources and…