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<div><font size="+1"><b>Daniel Barber<br></b></font></div>
<div><i>Barnard College<br></i></div>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>Phase-Change: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Solar Energy, 1946-<br></b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Monday, October 3<br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room
106</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Lunch is provided if you RSVP.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Please RSVP to</font> <a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">sts</font></a><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by
5pm Thursday, September 29th.</font></div>
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<div><b>Abstract:</b>
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engineer Maria Telkes and the architect Eleanor Raymond built the <i>Dover Sun House</i>. The house was widely
recognized as the first “all-solar house” – in the seasonally frigid climate
outside Boston, it deployed a phase-change chemical system for collecting and
storing solar radiation as the sole source of space heating.</span></font><font size="2"><span><br><br>This presentation will position the
house amidst three historical and conceptual frameworks. First, it will be seen
as evidence of the heretofore undocumented interest in solar energy in the
immediate post-war period. Second, the challenges of the house’s heating system
will provide an opportunity to re-think the political context of technological
experimentation. Third, the house will be seen as significant to the post-war
emergence of new forms of expertise – and specifically, the amalgam of
technological, political, and cultural knowledge informing the managerial
disposition to resource and environmental problems that persists to the present.</span></font>
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<div><b>Biography</b>:
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interdisciplinary historian analyzing cultural, technological, and bureaucratic
affinities between the history of modern architecture and the emergence of
environmentalism. His current research is focused on the role of architectural
technologies in the infrastructural and territorial transformations of the
immediate post-World War II period in the United States, with an emphasis on
the design of solar houses and the role of buildings in mitigating challenging
climatic conditions. Barber received his PhD in the History and Theory of
Architecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning, and Preservation. He was recently a post-doctoral fellow at the
Harvard University Center for the Environment, and is currently a Term
Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Barnard and Columbia Colleges
Architecture Program at Columbia University. He has also taught at Oberlin
College, Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Auckland.
Articles have been published in <i>The
Journal of Architecture</i>, <i>Design
Philosophy Papers </i>and forthcoming from <i>Technology
and Culture</i>, as well as other journals and edited volumes.</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style=""> </span></p>
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