Urban Conversations | Whose 'Castle'?: Architecture in American Legal Imaginaries. Speakers: Lisa Haber-Thomson and Timothy Hyde

Date: 

Monday, March 4, 2024, 12:00pm

Location: 

Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)

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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS ID,1-KU.V,1-D-4

SPEAKERS: LISA HABER-THOMSON AND TIMOTHY HYDE

MODERATED BY BRUNO CARVALHO

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This discussion will address how architecture has informed changing concepts of the right to exclude in American property law. More broadly, the goal is to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities in interdisciplinary methods that cross legal / architectural history.

Registration is required for this event. Lunch will be provided.

About the Speakers

Lisa Haber-Thomson is a historian interested in questions that lie at the intersections between law and architecture. She is currently a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she teaches studio and history courses.

Timothy Hyde is a historian of architecture at MIT whose research focuses on the political dimensions of architecture from the eighteenth century to the present, with a particular attention to relationships of architecture and law. His most recent book is Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye, and he is also the author of Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959.

About the Series

As our planet becomes increasingly urban, this series seeks to expand our understanding of cities and urbanization across sites and scales. Urban Conversations particularly aim to link humanistic approaches with spatial investigations. We host public talks and provide a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress with an interdisciplinary community, in a conversational format.