Please join us for a Five College Architecture Lecture: "From Leaf to Empire: The Marianne North Gallery at Kew"

Zeynep Çelik Alexander is an architectural historian who teaches at Columbia University. She works on architectural modernity from the eighteenth century onwards. She is the author of Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design (2017), and a co-editor of Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice (2020) and Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century (2021). She is also an editor of the journal Grey Room, a member of Aggregate, and a co-director of Center for Comparative Media. She is currently at work on a book titled Imperial Data: An Architectural History.

The event is sponsored by The Mount Holyoke College Joan Goldstein Spiro '54 Fund and Five College Architecture.