Event overview
A lecture by Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió.
Abstract:
This talk will consider the ways in which midcentury modernism configured the Southern California leisurescape by reproducing terra nullius as a colonial mode of territorial management. Rather than being a mere legal fiction or a past historical event, terra nullius results from the spatially-produced and architecturally-mediated encounter of different settler-colonial legacies and racial-capitalist modes of surplus extraction—even, and perhaps especially, through tourism.
The industrialization of tourism must therefore be rethought as immanent to the historical co-development of modern architecture and territory. This talk will expand on how Indigenous sovereignty was both an enabling condition and limit to the construction of midcentury capitalist leisurescapes.
Bio:
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió is assistant professor in the department of Urban Studies and Planning at UC San Diego—on unceded Kumeyaay land—where he is also co-director of the Just Transitions Initiative, member of the Indigenous Futures Institute, and faculty in the Design Lab. An architect and architectural historian, he researches how design mediates regimes of racial capitalism and processes of decolonization.
He holds a PhD in Architecture from Columbia University, a Master’s in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts, and a Bachelor’s degree and MArch from The Bartlett at UCL. Previously, he was assistant professor in the History of Architecture and Urban Development Program at Cornell University. He is a 2023 Graham Foundation grant awardee and is currently a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
Image caption:
Raymond Loewy’s Desert House by Clark & Frey, 1947. South view onto Agua Caliente Reservation land. Photo by Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.1)
Dates & times
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16 Nov 2023 | 5:15pm - 7:00pm |
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