October at GSAPP

This October, GSAPP gathers urgent conversations on architecture’s role across scales and contexts. Programs explore the politics of preservation, the planetary stakes of climate and resource use, and experimental practices in reuse and material innovation. Through lectures, screenings, and dialogues, the School convenes diverse voices to interrogate histories, test ideas, and imagine futures—situating design as a critical agent in shaping cultural memory and environmental responsibility.

THE DETLEF MERTINS LECTURE ON THE HISTORIES OF MODERNITY: Desiree Valadares

October 9, 6:30pm

Wood Auditorium

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Desirée Valadares (University of British Columbia) will deliver the Detlef Mertins lecture on the Histories of Modernity. With an introduction by Mabel Wilson and a response by Ateyah Khorakiwala.

Desirée Valadares is a landscape architect and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver in the Geography Department and a Faculty Affiliate in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. Her research, writing and photography centers on the cultural memory, infrastructural imaginaries, and heritage politics of Pacific War landscapes in Canada, Alaska and Hawai‘i.

The Detlef Mertins Lecture on the Histories of Modernity is an annual lecture in honor of the life and work of Detlef Mertins (1954-2011), endowed by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown. Previous speakers include Lucia Allais, Craig Buckley, Zeynep Cęlik Alexander, Ayala Levin, Anthony Acciavatti, and Sophie Hochhäusl.

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