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About Nushelle de Silva

Nushelle de Silva is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture at MIT. Her work examines museums, exhibitions, and the mediation of visual culture by international organizations in the twentieth century.

Nushelle de Silva is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work examines museums and exhibitions, and how the dissemination of visual culture is politically mediated by international organizations in the twentieth century.

NBN Episodes hosted by Nushelle:

Art December 6, 2022

Global Objects

Toward a Connected Art History

Edward S. Cooke

Hosted by Nushelle de Silva
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 history is often viewed through …
Architecture March 25, 2022

Knowledge Worlds

Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University

Reinhold Martin

Hosted by Nushelle de Silva
What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League and women’s colleges to historically black colleges …
Architecture February 22, 2022

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body

Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design

Kristina Wilson

Hosted by Nushelle de Silva
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 spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our …
Architecture September 21, 2021

Open Plan

A Design History of the American Office

Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler

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Albeit inspired by a progressive vision of a working environment without walls or hierarchies, the open plan office has come to be associated with some of the most dehumanizing and …
Architecture August 20, 2021

The Filing Cabinet

A Vertical History of Information

Craig Robertson

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The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its …
Architecture June 2, 2021

Modern Mobility Aloft

Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-interstate America

Amy D. Finstein

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In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting boldly …
Architecture January 6, 2021

Modern Architecture and Climate

Design Before Air Conditioning

Daniel A. Barber

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Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the …
Architecture November 4, 2020

States of Childhood

From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945

Jennifer S. Light

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A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles …