The Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Toronto presents:



Friday April 4, 2-4 pm

Gwendolyn Wright

"Excavating Modern Architecture in the US"

Munk Centre

1 Devonshire Place

room 108N

F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Speaker Series in American Studies



Gwendolyn Wright is Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University. A fellow of the Society of American Historians, is the author of The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism (University of Chicago Press, 1991), Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (Pantheon Books, 1981),and Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913 (University of Chicago Press, 1980). She is the editor of two books and has received fellowships from, among others, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Getty Center.



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