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UB A+P’s public lecture series for the 2022-23 academic year is dedicated to the entwined, even hopeful, themes of Recovery and Reclamation.

About the Speaker

Andy Shanken publishes on the topic of architecture and memory, the history of preservation, keywords in architecture, and the visual culture of architecture and planning.

Shanken is a Professor of Architectural History and the Director of American Studies at U.C. Berkeley. His book, 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront (2009), examines anticipatory architecture on the American homefront. A second book, Into the Void Pacific (University of California Press, 2015), is an architectural history of the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair. His new book, The Everyday Life of Memorials (Zone Books, 2022), explores the meaning of memorials as they are enveloped in daily life and their place within the development of modern cities.