About the Event
Vanessa Grossman is an architect, historian, and curator whose scholarship examines the complex entanglements of architecture with ideology, governance, and the politics of global transformation. Her research spans topics from housing and climate change to Cold War–era architectural exchanges, with particular attention to Europe, Latin America, and the Global South. Grossman is an assistant professor of architectural history and theory at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.