Stuart W. Leslie on The Architecture of Apocalypse: Thinking About the Unthinkable in Style

The Wende Museum and the Southern California chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH/SCC) welcome author Stuart W. Leslie, PhD, for a talk on “The Architecture of Apocalypse: Thinking About the Unthinkable in Style,” based on his contribution to the new anthology Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions. Leslie’s essay on the aerospace and think-tank architecture of the Cold War explores the architectural legacy of local institutions such as the RAND Corporation and Hughes Research Laboratories. At this event, Leslie will compare the architecture of three U.S. think tanks with that of three Soviet think tanks of the same era.

Stuart W. Leslie, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford, is a dynamic speaker who makes the history of modern science, as told through architecture, accessible to everyone. His work is richly illustrated with archival photographs.

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This event is presented as part of Wende Conversations: A Discussion Series Supported by Susan Horowitz and Rick Feldman.