Columbia University Faculty House
The Columbia University Seminar in American Studies presents: Not Only Carpenters, but Architects: Design Pedagogy and Racial Capitalism on the Industrial Campus With Dr. Maura Luckling
This talk will engage histories of design pedagogy and the representation of student labor on campus construction within industrial schools in the wake of the U.S. Civil War. It asks how race, labor, and the material politics of Reconstruction shaped education in architecture and the building trades relative to racialized hierarchies of labor and illuminates the changing ways that students and instructors at schools in the Hampton-Tuskegee model negotiated and transformed these pedagogies through the production and circulation of their design drawings for a global audience.
Maura Lucking is a historian of architectural modernism, building labor, and American empire. Her in-progress book, Building the Settler Campus, is an architectural history of the nineteenth century public college movement that examines land use, campus planning, and design pedagogy across three rarely integrated sites: land grant colleges, industrial institutes for the formerly enslaved, and Indian boarding schools. New research considers the entanglement of state and philanthropic homebuilding projects in nineteenth century Indian country. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA and is a current fellow of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for American Architecture and Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University and assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
RSVP AND CAMPUS ACCESS:
RSVP to Miriam Vonnahme at mgv2123@columbia.edu no later than Monday, Feb 24th if you do not have a Columbia University ID card. Due to current campus restrictions, attendees without a Columbia ID will need to register for the event 48 hours prior to the seminar to obtain a guest pass. Guest Passes are QR codes that registered attendees will receive via email from caladminnoreply@columbia.edu ahead of the seminar. It is advised for guests to enter campus from Wien Gate at 411 W 116th Street (between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Drive
