Giovanna Bassi Cendra, Art History Ph.D. candidate, will be presenting her paper “Industrializing Extractivism: The Techno-Scientific Complex of the University-City of Concepcíon, Chile, 1952-1968” at the inaugural Rice Architecture Dissertation Colloquium on April 29.
The colloquium will present new research in architectural history that is based on an understanding of the Atlantic Basin as a connector of four continents and cultural spheres, rather than a separating body of water. The interest of this colloquium lies in an approach that focuses on cultural exchange and sheds light to the transformation of ideas, models, and cultural attitudes along their transatlantic crossings and that will allow the speakers to highlight the impact of political, economic, social, and cultural transformations on architectural discourse and the built environment.
This one-day colloquium offers an international group of doctoral students a forum to present new research in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, and design.
All presentations will be held in Farish Gallery, MD Anderson Hall at Rice University. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information and times, visit Rice Architecture.
Giovanna Bassi Cendra is a Ph.D. Candidate specializing in the history of modern Latin American art and architecture. Her research focus is the entanglement of architecture with the ideology of “development” and extractive capitalism in South America during the postwar period.