Giovanna M. Bassi-Cendra will present a lecture as part of the Spring 2021 HTX Lecture Series, which fall under the theme Spaces of Extraction.

Giovanna Bassi Cendra specializes in modern Latin American art and architecture. Adopting an eco-critical lens, her dissertation interrogates the ways in which the ideology of "development," systems thinking in architecture, and mineral resource extraction drove the construction of new spaces for higher education in South America during the postwar period. Her previous research focused on the political deployment of the "integration of the arts" paradigm at precisely the historical moment in which modernism was institutionalized globally.