Event Category: FIGS

Cherpack Lounge The almost complete devastation of European church bells during the Second World War was an unprecedented event in the history of cultural property and warfare. So too was the campaign to restore this pervasive feature of the European sonic landscape after 1945. This talk explores how bells figured in the perpetration of Nazi […]

Cherpack Lounge Join us for the launch of Dr. Vanessa Grossman’s new book, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France. Concrete Alliance examines the massive reshaping of French cities that took place between 1958 and 1981, an episode commonly regarded as a unique time in which modernist ideals were tested on an […]