Mary McLeod: Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture
Mary McLeod will deliver the Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
About Mary McLeod
Mary McLeod is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, where she teaches architecture history and theory. She has also taught at Yale University, Harvard University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Miami, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. She received earned her undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees from Princeton University. Her research and publications have focused on the history of the modern movement and on contemporary architecture theory, examining issues concerning the connections between architecture and ideology. She is co-editor of “Kenneth Frampton: Conversations, Architecture, Criticism, Ideology,” and “Architecture Reproduction,” and is the editor of and contributor to the book “Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living.” She also initiated and helped curate the exhibition “Charlotte Perriand: Interior Equipment,” held at the Urban Center in New York. Presently, she is co-editing a website on pioneering American women architects for the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Architecture, Assemblage, Oppositions, Art Journal, AA Files, JSAH, Casabella, Art Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, and Lotus, as well as other books and anthologies, such as “Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture: Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories,” “An Architectural Exhibition: Case Plečnik,” “Buone Nuove: donne in architettura /Good News: Women in Architecture,” “Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes,” “Le Corbusier and Ando: Vol. 2: Le Corbusier,” “Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton,” “Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty,” “Food and the City,” “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes;” “Architecture School,” “The Sex of Architecture,” “Architecture in Fashion,” “Architecture of the Everyday,” “Architecture and Feminism,” “The Pragmatist Imagination,” “The State of Architecture,” “Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished,” “Architecture Theory since 1968,” “Oppositions Reader,” “Le Parole dell’Architettura,” and “Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art.” She has received several fellowships and awards, including a Docomomo USA Advocacy Award of Excellence, Brunner Award, Fulbright Fellowship, NEH award, and grants from New York Council of the Arts and the Graham Foundation. She was named a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians in 2020.
More Upcoming Lectures
Nov 11 at 5:30pm • Kemper Art Museum
Roots and Rhizomes: Relational Networks in the Art of Carolina Caycedo
In 2022, Carolina Caycedo stewarded the planting of an indigenous shadbush tree in a community garden in New York City’s East Harlem (El Barrio). This living organism, whose metaphorical seeds grew from Caycedo’s ongoing “Genealogy of Struggle” series, inspires Susanna V. Temkin’s exploration of the artist’s work within larger relational networks. Expanding ecological and symbolic concepts associated with roots, seeds, and branches, Temkin considers connections within Caycedo’s practice and across broader art histories of the Americas. In particular, Temkin will address connections to other artists in Caycedo’s work, along with broader histories of protest, ecofeminism, solidarity, and resistance.
This talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots”, as well as the forthcoming presentation of Confluencias at El Museo del Barrio, New York (originated at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo).
About the Speaker
Susanna V. Temkin is an art historian and the interim chief curator at El Museo del Barrio, where she has worked since 2018. Temkin earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art in the Americas, with a concentration on Cuba. At El Museo, her curatorial credits include the museum’s fiftieth anniversary exhibition, "Culture and the People" (2019), “La Trienal” (2020, 2024, and forthcoming 2027 edition), and the recent monograph of photographer Sophie Rivera (2026), among others. Prior to El Museo, she served as assistant curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin contributed essays to several exhibition catalogues and publications and is currently serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.