in-dialogue program
Structures of Success: Women Leading in Architecture and Design
Saturday, January 31 | 3PM - 4PM
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The Show’s In Dialogue Series is free to all ticket holders. Registration is required.
moderator
Kevin Murphy
Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Chair, Vanderbilt University
Kevin Murphy
Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Chair, Vanderbilt University
Kevin D. Murphy is the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Chair at Vanderbilt University where he is also professor and chair in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Prior to assuming his position at Vanderbilt, Murphy was a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York for fifteen years. He has published widely on American and European art and architecture, most recently a co-authored book by Mary Anne Hunting, entitled Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism, from Princeton University Press in February, 2025.
panelists
Gabrielle Esperdy
Ph.D., Dean + Professor of Architecture Hillier College of Architecture & Design New Jersey Institute of Technology
Gabrielle Esperdy
Ph.D., Dean + Professor of Architecture Hillier College of Architecture & Design New Jersey Institute of Technology
Gabrielle Esperdy, PhD is Dean of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she has taught since 2001. An architectural and urban historian, she studies intersections of modernism and consumerism in metropolitan landscapes and on feminism and queer theory in architecture and urbanism. Her most recent book American Autopia examines how architectural and urban discourse absorbed the ideals and concerns of the automobile and the territories of the car in the middle of the 20th century. A regular contributor to Places, she is also Editor in Chief of SAH Archipedia and Buildings of the United States, a digital resource and book series published by the University of Virginia Press.
Alice Friedman
Grace Slack McNeil Professor Emerita of American Art and Professor Emerita of Art, Wellesley College
Alice Friedman
Grace Slack McNeil Professor Emerita of American Art and Professor Emerita of Art, Wellesley College
Alice T. Friedman is an architectural historian who has written numerous articles and books about gender, sexuality, and queer space, including Women and the Making of the Modern House (1998), American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture (2010), and Queer Moderns: Max Ewing’s Jazz Age New York (2025). In 2023, she retired from teaching at Wellesley College, where she was the Grace Slack McNeil Professor of Art and a founding director of the Architecture Program. Friedman’s current project is a book of essays entitled Poker Faces which examines queer domesticities and modern designs for non-conforming households.
Sarah Lichtman
School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons School of Design, The New School
Sarah Lichtman
School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons School of Design, The New School
Sarah Lichtman is the director of Parsons’ MA History of Design and Curatorial Studies program. After holding a variety of jobs in the New York art world, including one at the Museum of Modern Art, Lichtman opened a successful midcentury modern design store in Brooklyn. Her love of design led her to pursue a master’s degree and a doctorate in design studies and then to teach at Parsons, where she specializes in design history and material culture. Her areas of interest include the Cold War, design and youth culture, gender and design, Scandinavian design and popular culture. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous journals including: The Journal of Design History, Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, and West 86th. Sarah is presently working on a project examining the material culture of youth in the postwar United States.
access
Programming will take place in the Board of Officers Room on the first floor of the Park Avenue Armory in the South Hall.
Registration is required and is complimentary for all Winter Show ticket holders.
Please arrive at least 5 minutes before the program begins. Kindly note that late arrivals may not be admitted, and/or seating may not be available.
*This event will be recorded.
Registration is required and is complimentary for all Winter Show ticket holders.
Please arrive at least 5 minutes before the program begins. Kindly note that late arrivals may not be admitted, and/or seating may not be available.
*This event will be recorded.
Registration for this discussion has reached capacity. If you are interested in joining the waiting list, please email office@thewintershow.org.