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av福利社 Annual International Conferences bring members together for scholarly exchange and networking
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Through print and digital publications, av福利社 documents the history of the built environment and disseminates scholarshipLatest Issue:
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av福利社 promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of the built environment worldwide for the benefit of all
2025 Program
The Graduate Student Book Group provides an opportunity for graduate students to meet with the author of a recently published book to discuss the process of developing a book-length study in architectural history. The book selection for the 2025 Book Group is by Delia Cosentino and Adriana Zavala. View the book's table of contents.
After archaeologists rediscovered a corner of the Templo Mayor in 1914, artists, intellectuals, and government officials attempted to revive Tenochtitlan as an instrument for reassessing Mexican national identity in the wake of the Revolution of 1910. What followed was a conceptual excavation of the original Mexica capital in relation to the transforming urban landscape of modern Mexico City.
Revolutionary-era scholars took a renewed interest in sixteenth century maps as they recognized an intersection between Tenochtitlan and the foundation of a Spanish colonial settlement directly over it. Meanwhile, Mexico City developed with modern roads and expanded civic areas as agents of nationalism promoted concepts like indigenismo, the embrace of Indigenous cultural expressions. The promotion of artworks and new architectural projects such as Diego Rivera’s Anahuacalli Museum helped to make real the notion of a modern Tenochtitlan. Employing archival materials, newspaper reports, and art criticism from 1914 to 1964, Resurrecting Tenochtitlan connects art history with urban studies to reveal the construction of a complex physical and cultural layout for Mexico’s modern capital.
Delia Cosentino is an associate professor of Latin American art history at DePaul University. She is the author of Las joyas de Zinacantepec: Arte colonial en el Monasterio de San Miguel and was a guest editor for Artl@s Bulletin’s thematic volume “Cartographic Styles and Discourse.”
Adriana Zavala is an associate professor of the history of art and architecture and race, colonialism, and diaspora studies at Tufts University. She is the author of Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art.
to join the discussion on Wednesday, March 26.
For more information about the Graduate Student Book Group, please contact the Graduate Student Book Group 2025 Chair, Yannick Etoundi, at yannick_etoundi@brown.edu.
2024 Program
The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Isreal-Palestine
Discussion with Irit Katz
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
This program convened graduate students around a discussion of Irit Katz’s . In a seminar format, graduate student attendees will be encouraged to bring thoughts and questions for the author and for one another. Members of the av福利社 Graduate Student Advisory Committee will moderate the conversation.
Possible topics for discussion include methodology, audience, decisions about organization of the book, and the processes of research. The conversation will also focus on disciplinary issues particular to architectural history, namely regarding evidence, archives, selection of objects of study, visual materials and media, the capacities and limitations of specific methods, and integration of other disciplinary practices or modes of research. The session may also touch on other, more wide-ranging subjects, such as the relationship between Katz’s own scholarship and pedagogy.
As a program specially targeted toward graduate students, this will be an opportunity to engage with the author of a recently-published book, and thus to learn about the process of developing a book-length study in architectural history. As significantly, it will be a forum for graduate students to connect with one another, to collectively think through ideas of scholarly approaches and relevancy, as well as broader themes regarding the directions and potentials of architectural history today.
Video: av福利社 Graduate Student Book Group with Dr. Irit Katz
Program Date: May 29, 2024