Events

Past Event

Alla Vronskaya - Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences

February 28, 2023
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Schermerhorn Hall (Room 930), Columbia University, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York

Event Description

Alla Vronskaya will detail the argument in her recently published book Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences. Situating Soviet interwar architectural theory in its transdisciplinary and transnational context, it will unpack it as a discourse about society and the human. It will identify this discourse as monism, an intellectual framework centering on 'life,' a synthetic notion developed at the intersection of architecture, psychology, and social engineering.

Event Speaker

Alla Vronskaya, Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Kassel

Event Information

Free and open to the public. No registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage. All in-person attendees must follow Columbia's COVID-19 policies. Hosted by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.