Class, Gender and Race in the Latin American “Unidad Vecinal” (virtual event)

This roundtable adds to existing scholarship on the Unidad Vecinal by exploring the intersection between architecture, class, gender, and race in Latin American modern housing. Did a working class exist? Were there gender considerations in either housing policy or design process at the time? How did planner and architects engage, or ignore, ethno-racial differences? These are only a few of the questions the roundtable will discuss.

Moderator:
Felipe Hernandez, University of Cambridge, UK

Speakers:
Flavia Britto Do Nascimento, Universidade de São Paulo FAUUSP, Brazil
Adriana Massidda, University of Sheffield, UK
Penélope Plaza, University of Reading, UK
Umberto Bonomo, Universidad Católica de Chile
Liliana Clavijo, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, and University of Michigan, USA

https://www.sah.org/2023/roundtables