BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:FIU Architecture | Elliott Sturtevant: Business Trips: Archite cture\, Travel\, and Trade in an Age of Empire X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261009T143528Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51071975152089 DTSTART:20251023T180000Z DTEND:20251023T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, October 23rd at 2 PM for the third lecture i n the Paul Cejas Lecture Series as the Department of Architecture’s very own Professor Elliott Sturtevant presents:\n\nBUSINESS TRIPS: Architectur e\, Travel\, and Trade in an Age of Empire\n\nAbout Elliott Sturtevant\n\n Elliott Sturtevant studies the history of architecture\, infrastructure\, and urbanization in North America since the eighteenth century. His work s its at the intersection of architectural and urban history with the histor ies of technology\, business\, and the environment.\n\nElliott received hi s Bachelor of Science in Architecture from McGill University\, Master of A rchitecture from the University of Toronto\, and Ph.D. from Columbia Unive rsity\, where he wrote a dissertation on the architecture of U.S. imperial ism at the turn of the twentieth century. Before joining FIU\, Elliott was a 2023–24 Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture\, Urbanism\, and the Humanities at Princeton University.\n\nHis writing has appeared or is fort hcoming in arq: Architectural Research Quarterly\, Itinerario\, Architectu ral Theory Review\, Thresholds\, and Pidgin. He currently serves as co-edi tor of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative’s online platfo rm\, we-aggregate.org.\n\nHis dissertation\, “Empire’s Stores: The Arc hitecture of Conveyance and Corporate Imperialism in America\, 1890–1930 \,” examines how graphic methods and the architecture of American busine sses acted as agents of corporate-led territorial and economic expansion. Challenging narratives that emphasize the nineteenth century’s technolog ical “annihilation of space and time\,” it highlights how modern enter prises used media practices to exploit spatial and temporal unevenness. Fo cusing on the networks—both visual and physical—that linked labor\, re sources\, and infrastructure\, the study explores communication and distri bution systems ranging from diagrams to steamships and power lines. By ana lyzing four firms operating across U.S. borders\, it argues that “Americ an” corporate architecture both shaped and profited from imperial format ions\, redefining geographic and economic boundaries in the process. GEO:25.759384;-80.371304 LOCATION:PCA - Paul Cejas Architecture Building\, 135 SUMMARY:FIU Architecture | Elliott Sturtevant: Business Trips: Architecture \, Travel\, and Trade in an Age of Empire URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.fiu.edu/event/fiu-architecture-elliot-sturte vant-business-trips-architecture-travel-and-trade-in-an-age-of-empire CATEGORIES:Lectures & Conferences END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR