Organizers
Alexander Eisenschmidt is a Ph.D. Candidate in History and Theory of
Architecture at the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. His
research investigates the notion of a “potent negativity”
in architecture. Before coming to Penn in 2001, Alexander worked as
an architect in Leipzig, Germany, and New York City.
Meredith Malone is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. After spending six months researching in France and Switzerland, Meredith is currently writing her disseration titled "Nouveau Réalisme: Exhibition Strategies and the Everyday in Post-WW II France." Focusing on the more ephemeral creations of the group, her thesis examines the manner in which members of Nouveau Réalisme redefined artistic practice within the context of social activity and directly engaged with French critical debates concerning commodity spectacle, consumer consumption, and the transformation of “everyday life.”
Jonathan Mekinda is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he is at work on his dissertation, entitled: “Reconstruction and Revolution: The Reinvention of Modernism in Italy, 1945-1960.” His work examines the relationship between architecture and politics in the aftermath of World War II and, in particular, the rapidly shifting conceptions of modernism that developed during the reconstruction of Italy.
Julia Walker
is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of the History of Art at the University
of Pennsylvania. Her primary interest is architecture in Germany during
the twentieth century, and her dissertation focuses specifically on the
architecture of Berlin after 1977, connecting themes of architectural
production to changing notions of authorship.
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