HIAA PhD Candidates Sophie Higgerson and Mohadeseh (Hosna) Salari Sardari recently presented jointly at the “Atlantic Circulation” architecture conference. Their presentation, titled “The Canon and the Flaneur: Collis Hardenbergh’s 1937 Modernist Architectural Pilgrimage," a paper developed out of their 2024 practicum project with Professor Itohan Osayimwese, which focused on the 1937 architectural pilgrimage of Collis Hardenbergh. A young Minnesotan architect, he traveled to Europe where he observed both the state of modern architecture and late interwar European politics first-hand. Their paper argued that Hardenbergh's itinerary and travel methodology worked in contrast to his guidebook– Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson's 1932 book The International Style: Modern Architecture since 1922, which has been recognized as a touchstone publication in the historiography of modernism. 

The “Atlantic Circulation” conference was part of a series of international congresses (running from 2023 through 2027) broadly focused on themes of architecture in travel–this being the seventh conference in the series. The conference was designed to be multilingual, accepting papers in English, French, Spanish, and Italian, and the presenters came from across Europe and the Americas.