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About Nushelle de Silva
Nushelle de Silva is a historian of the built environment, and Assistant Professor in Art History at Fordham University. Her research is broadly concerned with the relationships between architecture and mobility from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Her current areas of interest include portable architectures and their materials; physical infrastructures for moving objects, people, and ideas; the effects of movement on the production and reception of design objects; and spatial forms of preservation for objects in transit.NBN Episodes hosted by Nushelle:
August 3, 2024
Small Spaces
Swati Chattopadhyay's book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023) recasts the history of the British empire by focusing…
December 28, 2023
Open Plan
Albeit inspired by a progressive vision of a working environment without walls or hierarchies, the open plan office has come to be associated with som…
December 6, 2022
Global Objects
A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their uses art…
March 25, 2022
Knowledge Worlds
What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League an…
February 22, 2022
Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body
In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and …
August 20, 2021
The Filing Cabinet
The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet i…
June 2, 2021
Modern Mobility Aloft
In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets;…
January 6, 2021
Modern Architecture and Climate
Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs,…
November 4, 2020
States of Childhood
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and n…