“I came to focus on things that had been misunderstood or overlooked in the historical record and could, therefore, serve as mediators for new thought and design. The writing of architectural history can close down the past or open it up anew. It can bind historical experience into yet another ism . . .or it can unlock the life and modernité that resides even in the modernisms we already have.”
–Detlef Mertins

Historian and theorist Lucia Allais will present an exploration of the design of the Unesco Complex in Paris between 1952 and 1959.

Introduction by Dean Amale Andraos
Response by Lecture Committee Members Barry Bergdoll, Columbia Art History and Archeology and Felicity Scott, Columbia GSAPP

Supported by Keller Easterling the Mertins Family and Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown

Lecture Committee:
Keller Easterling 
Barry Bergdoll
Edward Dimendberg
Felicity Scott