The HAA Lecture Series brings together historians of art, architecture and material culture specializing in diverse fields and genres. Prominent scholars are invited to share their latest research with the BU community in a lecture followed by Q&A.
The HAA Lecture Series is organized by a committee of graduate students and faculty from the department.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 5:30PM – Via Zoom
Free and open to the public with online registration.
Registration will open on Sept 18th.
Alice T. Friedman
Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College
“Poker Faces/Private Spaces: Modernism and the Languages of Architecture”
The lecture will explore new analytical strategies for looking at domestic architecture in the modern political and cultural milieu of surveillance and threats to privacy. Focusing on the idea of the “poker face”house which conceals and, in some cases, deceives the inquisitive viewer with false fronts and misleading design codes, the lecture will examine a group of 20th and 21st-century examples which suggest that the exterior opacity of the “poker face” house is often driven by a non-conforming program and resistance to surveillance: private lives spaces remain – by design — hidden from public view.
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