THE ART HISTORY department is hosting Dr.
Christina Cogdell for the upcoming Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural
History on Tuesday, October 24 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM in the Lindhal Founders
Room, Northrop 2nd Floor. On Monday,
October 23 from 4:00 – 5:30 PM in Heller Hall 445, there will be a social hour
for graduate students and faculty to meet Dr. Cogdell. For more information is below.
Monday October 23, 4:00pm-5:30pm, 445 Heller Hall
Social Hour: UMN graduate students and faculty, please join us Monday afternoon to meet and mingle with speaker Dr. Christina Cogdell. Light drinks and refreshments will be provided.
Tuesday October 24, 5:30pm-7:30pm, Lindhal Founders Room, Northrop 2nd Floor
Public Lecture: UMN community, please join us for Dr. Cogdell's lecture on her current book project, Towards a Living Architecture? Complexity and Biology in Generative Architecture. A reception will follow.
Information About Dr. Codgell:
Dr. Christina Cogdell is Associate Professor of Design at UC Davis, and currently serves as department Chair. With a background in American Studies and Art History, Dr. Cogdell is interested in the history and theory of design. Her 2004 book, Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s, which interrogates the connection between eugenics and streamline industrial design, was awarded the 2006 Edelstien Prize for outstanding book on the history of technology. Her current book project, Towards a Living Architecture? Complexity and Biology in Generative Architecture, examines generative architecture and design in relation to scientific theories of self-organization and emergence, development and evolution, and complex adaptive systems. Dr. Cogdell has received numerous fellowships and grants in support of her research, including the New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation and a generous grant from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center for the Study of American Modernism in Santa Fe.
