Crossed Histories

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The “Monumentals” exhibition at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris focuses on the impact of women on the postmodern city. To do so, it focuses on the personal and professional t rajectories of three protagonists who, each in their own way, shaped the intellectual and physical environment of their city: journalist and architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, and American, Canadian and Italiann architects Phyllis Lambert and Gae Aulenti. All three share an ambivalent relationship with the concrete- and-steel architecture of the post-World War II modern movement, which was widely criticized in the 1960s for being alienating, standardized and anhistorical. Show more