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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

Sheila Crane is the author of Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), winner of the 2013 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.

Crane has held fellowships at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Clark Art Institute, the Italian Academy for Advanced Study at Columbia University, and Dumbarton Oaks. She is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively entitled, The City in the Shadow of the Shantytown: Reassembling the Urban from the Bidonville.

Crane will speak about the ephemeral histories and seemingly small-scale initiatives of collective restitution.