Events

Constructing Invisibility

A symposium organized by Tyler's Architecture and Environmental Design Department

Constructing Invisibility brings together scholars from across diverse disciplines in architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, science and technology, military history, and political geography for a one-day symposium on current issues and trends in the built environment fields. Topics to be discussed include critical histories of infrastructural urbanization, planetary urbanism, military-industrial complex, Cold War geographies, nuclear landscapes, technical lands, and extreme environments.

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Organizing Committee: Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Kate Wingert-Playdon, Keaton Bruce

Participants: Alexander Arroyo (University of Chicago), Sanjoy Chakravorty (Temple University), Lindsey Freeman (Simon Fraser University), Philip Glahn (Temple University), Petra Goedde (Temple University), Natalie Koch (Syracuse University), Matthew Haynes (United States Department of Defense), Gretchen Heefner (Northeastern University), Cesar Lopez (University of New Mexico), Robert Gerard Pietrusko (University of Pennsylvania), Nicole Starosielski (New York University), and Charles Waldheim (Harvard Graduate School of Design).

Image credit: 
Vincent Fournier, Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array [Alma], San Pedro De Atacama, Chile, 2007. Courtesy Vincent Fournier