FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

Architecture Without Frontiers? The Problem of the Past in a Global Practice of Architecture
Illustrated lecture by Shiben Banerji, PhD Candidate in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a Research Fellow in the MIT Urbanization Laboratory. He has taught architecture, urban design and planning at MIT and Columbia University and was formerly Associate Director, Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai

Chair: Shri Snehanshu Mukherjee

It is generally assumed that modern architecture built outside Europe and North America must either be an instance of homogenization or an instance of contextualization. Motivating this general assumption is a conception of modernity as a universal future - applicable to everyone. The talk reveals a countervailing thesis of the internationality of modern architecture through an analysis of the American architects Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin, who practiced in the United States, Australia and India between 1895 and 1949