Unsettling Land

Unsettling Land is an event celebrating the culmination of three interrelated Buell Center timelines. As a capstone for the “Land” Conversation series and the publication of the accompanying booklet, the event will host two speakers presenting stories from the long history of settlement and its effects on the built environment in the Americas. As a celebration of the installation “100 Links,” designed by the Buell team in collaboration with the architects AD-WO at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the event will host a discussion between AD-WO and the artistic collective Floating Museum, who curated the Biennial. And to mark 40 years since the foundation of the Buell Center, the event will conclude with a celebratory reception. Check back for a detailed schedule of events.

Speakers:

• Jo Guldi (Emory University)
• Timothy Hyde (MIT)
• Floating Museum (Curators of the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial)
• AD-WO

Jo Guldi completed her PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and is currently Professor (in Practice) of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University. Previously, Dr. Guldi held positions mainly in Departments of History at the University of Chicago, the Harvard Society of Fellows, Brown University, and Southern Methodist University. Dr. Guldi’s research into quantitative methods focuses on improving AI approaches to understanding our past. Her historical research concerns the history of property rights, the origins of eminent domain, and the story of rent control. Her articles have been published in the American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, and Annales. From 2015-2021 she was PI of a $1 million NSF grant entitled “The Unaffordable World.” Her-award winning books have been covered in The Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Boston Review, and Guardian.

Organized as one of the “Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas” by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at GSAPP.