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Nathan Eddy

Wed, Nov 19    1pm

Please join the Historic Preservation program at GSAPP for a lecture by Nathan Eddy, a U.S.-born filmmaker and journalist.

Nathan Eddy wil discuss brutalist buildings; whether they are ugly behemoths, acid-trip sci-fi office blocks, misfires of architectural history, or misunderstood masterpieces? His documentaries dive into the contested afterlives of late modern and postmodern landmarks — buildings once derided as eyesores and now suddenly worth saving. How did we go from wanting to “teardown” these buildings to considering them “national treasures”? Shifting tastes, economic pressures, and cultural amnesia collide; the fight for architectural heritage is less about beauty and more about what (and who) we decide to remember. There’s also a lesson in how to save a New York skyscraper for $200.

Nathan graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and worked in Washington, D.C. and New York City before moving to Berlin, Germany, where he currently lives. His work focuses on architecture and the built environment, documenting the change in attitude towards buildings of the late modern and post-modern eras and the challenges in protecting or sharing architectural heritage.

The Preservation Lecture Series is organized by the MS in Historic Preservation program.