As part of the Spring 2023 HTX Lecture Series, María González Pendás presents Concrete Bodies, Magic Shells, and the Labor Archives of American Coloniality. This lecture will be presented over zoom.

María González Pendás is an architectural historian of modernity and coloniality of the Spanish transatlantic world whose research explores the intersections of aesthetics, technologies, ideologies, and power through the built environment. Other projects have investigated relations of labor and race in México; the coloniality of concrete technologies and innovation across the South Atlantic; and the relationship between technology, religion, and secularism in global modernity.