Charlie Hailey discusses “Concrete on Sand: Casting Freedom between Necessity and Control in Slab City’s Desert Camp”. Hailey is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Florida. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Outsider Spaces”.

Concrete on Sand: Casting Freedom between Necessity and Control in Slab City’s Desert Camp

The southwestern desert has long stood for American individualism, modernist and anti-modernist sentiments, and social and political experiments. As such it has attracted artistic and architectural movements that give form to these ideas. This conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the relationship between desert extremes and the built environment.

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Concrete on Sand: Casting Freedom between Necessity and Control in Slab City’s Desert Camp

Concrete on Sand: Casting Freedom between Necessity and Control in Slab City’s Desert Camp