MARÍA GONZÁLEZ PENDÁS

"Holy Modern: Technocracy, Theocracy and the Architectures of Hispanidad Fascism" 

Klarman Hall, KG42 
232 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853 

A talk with Architecture faculty member María González Pendás about her book manuscript, Holy Modern: Technocracy, Theocracy and the Architectures of Hispanidad Fascism, which studies the architectural workings of fascism, technocracy, and the imperial figment of Hispanidad in the second postwar and through the lens of Spain.

María González Pendás is an architectural historian of modernity and coloniality of the Spanish transatlantic world whose research explores the intersections of aesthetics, technologies, ideologies, and power through the built environment.  Other projects have investigated relations of labor and race in México; the coloniality of concrete technologies and innovation across the South Atlantic; and the relationship between technology, religion, and secularism in global modernity.

Image: Interior view of the Franquista pavilion for Expo 58, Brussels, 1958. José Antonio Corrales Archives