Ed Dimendberg discusses “Explosive Modernism: The Southwest Architecture of Hiram Hudson Benedict”. Dimendberg is Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Midcentury Inversions”.

Ed Dimendberg discusses “Explosive Modernism: The Southwest Architecture of Hiram Hudson Benedict”. Dimendberg is Professor of Film &amp; Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Midcentury Inversions”.

Explosive Modernism: The Southwest Architecture of Hiram Hudson Benedict

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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Explosive Modernism: The Southwest Architecture of Hiram Hudson Benedict