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“How Chinese Architecture Became Modern” by Nancy Steinhardt

Name: “How Chinese Architecture Became Modern” by Nancy Steinhardt
Start: 2026-10-01T18:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-01T18:30:00.000Z
Location: Taylor Hall Room 203 at Vassar College

WhenThu, Oct 12:30 PM

WhereTaylor Hall Room 203 at Vassar CollegePoughkeepsie, NY

HostTaylor Hall Room 203 at Vassar College

TicketsFree

What to expect

Oct. 1, 2026, 5:30 p.m. Location: Taylor Hall 203

This lecture explores the dramatic and human factors that transformed the Chinese landscape from wooden buildings supported by ceramic-tile roofs to twisted metal and megatall. The political and emotional story begins around 1840.

It involves teachers, students, architects, patrons, and governments from Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States, all against the backdrop of six wars and revolution, and it involves some of the most influential architects of the twenty-first century.

An Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture.

This event is free and open to the public. 845-437-5370