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Christina Crawford – “Spatial Revolution in Soviet Ukraine: Kharkiv, 1930

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
School of Architecture, Max Abramovitz Endowed Lecture
Location
Plym Auditorium in the Illinois School of Architecture and on Zoom
Date
Mar 30, 2022   6:00 pm  
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Christina E. Crawford is an architectural and urban historian, a trained architect, and assistant professor of architectural history at Emory University, whose research focuses on the transnational exchange of ideas about housing and urban form in the twentieth century. Her research and publications have been supported the American Council of Learned Societies, the Getty Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and the College Art Association, among other institutions. She is the author of Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Cornell University Press, 2022), and co-editor of Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945 (MIT Press, 2023). She serves on the board of the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA).

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