The Permanent Seminar starts this Wednesday at 7pm with the talk Ciudad Kennedy: Modernization and Social Reality in Colombia in the 1960s by Victoria Sánchez Holguín (abstract below). This will be the first of three sessions of the Spring 2014 PS series Modernity in Transition. Architectural Processes in Latin America. blogs.utexas.edu/psla/2014/03/06/permanent-seminar-spring-2014/ See yall at CLAVIS (ART 3.434) or online via our Ustream channel: ustream.tv/channel/live-streaming-of-the-permanent-seminar-in-latin-american-art SESSION 1 Victoria Sánchez Holguín (UT Austin) Ciudad Kennedy: Modernization and Social Reality in Colombia in the 1960s March 19th / 7:00 pm The efforts by the Colombian state to remedy the country’s housing shortage had its greatest impact in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Instituto de Crédito Territorial (ICT – Institute of the Territorial Credit) built approximately half a million units throughout the country. This presentation seeks to illuminate the role played by the ICT in the process of modernization of Colombian cities by focusing on the nearly 10,000 social housing units known as Ciudad Kennedy, a neighborhood in Bogotá. In Ciudad Kennedy, urbanistic, architectural, and technological experiments converge with the issues of the U.S. political and financial interests in Latin America, promoted through the aid provided by the Alliance for Progress. Victoria Sánchez Holguín holds a bachelors and a masters degree in architecture and urbanism for the Universität Stuttgart, Germany. From 1999 to 2013 she was a lecturer in urban and architectural history at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia. Currently she is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
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