Black Home as Public Art: Exhibition Viewing and Keynote with Dell Upton

To kick off The Black Home as Public Art symposium, the Center for American Architecture and Design invites attendees to an exhibition viewing and opening reception in the School of Architecture's Mebane Gallery. 

Following the reception, the historian Dell Upton will give an keynote lecture, introducing topics that will be further discussed during the symposium panels on Thursday, September 12.

ABOUT THE OPENING KEYNOTE

Dell Upton is Distinguished Research Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Art History, UCLA. He formerly taught at UC Berkeley and the University of Virginia. Upton’s work on architecture and material culture has focused on American, and especially Black American, and world architecture. Currently he is investigating the construction and destruction of political monuments since antiquity. Upton’s most recent books include What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift and Monument Building in the Contemporary South and American Architecture: A Thematic History. In 2025 Dumbarton Oaks will publish Landscapes in the Making, a volume he co-edited with Stephen Daniels.