Minnette De Silva: Intersections, presentation by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Neighbors Vol. 4 by THEMA, HITAM, TPOD
Event details
| Date | 20.11.2024 |
| Hour | 12:30 › 14:00 |
| Speaker | Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is an assistant professor at Barnard College, Columbia University and specializes in histories of architecture, modernity, and migration, centering African and South Asian questions of historicity and archives, heritage politics, and feminist and colonial practices. Her scholarship aims to foreground histories of marginalized people and figures and promote practices of collaboration and support, especially concerning the lives and narratives of communities that have been systematically excluded or silenced. Thinking through objects, buildings, and landscapes, her work examines intellectual histories and diverse forms of esthetic practice and cultural production. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi will join us on Wednesday, 20.11.2024 for the Neighbors lecture series on History & Theory of Architecture Vol. 4. When Minnette De Silva founded the Studio of Modern Architecture in Kandy, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), in 1947, she was one of the first women in the world to establish a professional architectural practice as sole principal. Her practice treated architecture as a lived experience and a contemporary expression of heterogeneous pasts. In her talk titled "Minnette De Silva: Intersections", Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi will offer a richly illustrated critical introduction to De Silva’s practice, exploring a range of projects through the intersecting intellectual concerns that shaped her work. Drawing on modernist architectural techniques and material heritage practices, De Silva forged a distinctive, critically engaged aesthetic program and set of values.
Practical information
- General public
- Free