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Dean Anthony Vidler Speaks at Yale and California College of the Arts

POSTED ON: February 14, 2013

Lebbeus Woods, San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake, Quake City, 1995. Collection SFMOMA

Dean Anthony Vidler will present the lecture "Building on the Ruins: Allegories of the Postmodern in IBA," at the Achtung: Berlin symposium on February 16, 2013, held at Yale University School of Architecture. He will also present the lecture "Towards an Other Architecture: Lebbeus Woods and 20th Century Resistance" on February 18, 2013 at the California College of the Arts.

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