Guest Lecture- Sept 23
Please join us Wednesday, Sept 23rd for a lecture by Boston University’s own Dr. Sophie Hochhäusl.
Hochhäusl is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, among them the Clarence Stein Fellowship for Landscape and Urban Studies, the Botstiber Fellowship for Austrian-American Studies, and the Carter Manny Research Award from the Graham Foundation. Together with Torsten Lange she organizes the European Architectural History Network’s interest group, “Architecture and the Environment.” At Boston University she teaches lecture courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels in twentieth century architecture, landscape history, and the historiography of modern architecture.
The title of her lecture will be “From Siedlung to Suburb: Exhibiting the Austrian Prefabricated Home – Epistemological Transfer, Americanization, and the U.S. Economic Mission in Vienna, 1952-1955.”
The talk will take place at 5:30PM in CAS Room 200, and refreshments will be served.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions, and we look forward to seeing you there!