160. Modernism's Magic Hat with Ijlal Muzzafar
ArchitectureTalk17 Apr 2025

160. Modernism's Magic Hat with Ijlal Muzzafar

Today, we are joined by Ijlal Muzzafar who is a professor at RISD and author of Modernism's Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital. The book is M's thesis on how modernists in the post-war era invoked and worked with the concept of development to produce a re-imaging of development as a process of self-actualization without real sizeable investment of capital.

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