The view from above has been central to the emergence of modernist architecture in the twentieth century--and equally key to the work of its most passionate critics. Architectural historian Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor of Architecture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art) and Jeanne Haffner (Lecturer on the History of Science, Harvard University) will discuss the impact of aviation and war on architecture in the twentieth century, considering how aerial vision and other visual technologies and techniques of representation have come to shape the way we “see,” analyze, and respond to urban form—and to urban social life.  Mary Mary McLeod (Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University) will moderate.

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