Recorded on 2019-08-10
Our guest on this episode is Volker M. Welter, professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Vernacular architecture in California: the Case Study Houses (2:00) — the Tremaine houses and family patronage of domestic architecture in midcentury America (4:30) — how the Tremaine family worked with different modern architects (9:45) — […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2019-07-05
Our guest on this episode is Volker M. Welter, professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Along with practical functions, the need for cultural or spiritual elements in town planning: Geddes’ “cultural acropolis” (1:45) — The cosmic and religious symbolism of Geddes’s unbuilt plan for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2019-06-26
Our guest on this episode is Volker M. Welter, professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Discovering the work of urban planner Patrick Geddes: community, civic responsibility and civic society (2:30) — The origins of town planning in the late 19th century: architecture, economics and biology (5:00) — The urban environment of […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2019-06-06
Our guest on this episode is Safiya Umoja Noble, Associate Professor of Information Studies and African American Studies at UCLA. What happens when you type “black women” into a search engine? (1:15) — Or if you search for “good schools”? (3:15) — Is there any degree of algorithmic transparency available to the consumer of these […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2019-01-16
Linda Henderson earned her PhD at Yale University and has taught 20th-century European and American art in the Department of Art and Art History since 1978. Before coming to the University of Texas, she served from 1974 through 1977 as Curator of Modern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Professor Henderson’s research and […]
Listen ->Our guest on this episode is Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, whose new book of translations, The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Goethe (with Frederick Turner), will be released by Deep Vellum Publishing in 2019.Invasions, and the formation of Hungarian national consciousness, from the Tatars to the Revolution of 1848 (2:00) — The multiethnic culture of Hungary after […]
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