PROGRAM IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Marina Bedran & Ivan L. Munuera---"Brazilian Art, Literature, and Culture from the 1950s to the 1980s"---Marina Bedran(PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---"Drop Dead Gorgeous!!! The Chemical Regime of Discotecture"---Ivan L. Munuera---(PhD Candidate, School of Architecture, Princeton University)---In the mid-1970s and early 1980s, New York was in crisis. The large factories, which at one time had formed part of the landscape of Manhattan, lay abandoned. The view was desolate and alarming, yet suggestive of somewhere potentially habitable. Amidst this landscape, nightclubs and discos became the epicentre of an architectural revolution. They included the Palladium in New York, a nightclub designed by Arata Isozaki and described as "an urban apocalypse" in keeping with the city's decayed status. It contained, shaped, and propagated a very specific architecture: discotecture, the architecture of the disco. --- Speaker(s): Marina Bedran--PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University---Ivan L. Munuera--PhD Candidate, School of Architecture, Princeton University---Event webpage: https://plas.princeton.edu/events