# Event Details - **Event Name**: Architectural History & Theory Seminar Series| Shiben Banerji - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 25 Nov, 2025 at 05:15 pm – Tue, 25 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: Formal Symmetry, Artful Irregularity, and the Modernist Study of the PastAbout this EventJoin us for the next Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series of 25/26 by Shiben Banerji. This lecture will be hybrid. Please book your ticket for attendance in person or online. You will receive access to the online event via email the day before the event.AbstractWords, such as 'baroque' and 'parklike' are notorious for having been used by architects and critics in the early twentieth century to describe two different approaches to urban planning. Less well understood is that, between 1910 and 1920, architects who prized the 'formal symmetry' of baroque plans and architects who prized the 'artful irregularity' of parklike plans each saw themselves as formulating spatial models for studying the past. This talk situates a transnational impulse to study the past spatially amid growing discontent with gridiron planning in the first decades of twentieth century. Defining modernism as a structure of explanation, rather than as a style, the talk argues that the modernist study of the past had the potential to explain social phenomena in a scale of time that was not strictly anthropocentric.About Shiben BanerjiShiben Banerji is an associate professor in the History of Art department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy (University of Texas Press, 2025) and the coeditor of In the Shadows of Democracy: Possibilities for Rhetoric beyond Rhetorical Studies (Intermezzo, 2025). Image: Walter Burley Griffin, Castlecrag Estate, ca. 1921. Printed estate map showing lots, easements, and reserves annotated by hand in ink and pencil. Papers of Edgar Dean, National Library of Australia, MS 2019, Item 33.AccessPlease let us know if you require any support accessing this event by emailing eca.events@ed.ac.uk.Please see ECA's privacy notice for more information on how your personal details provided will be used and stored. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edinburgh/architectural-history-and-theory-seminar-series|-shiben-banerji/100001718475800379 - **Event Categories**: workshops, art, literary-art, nonprofit, virtual - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Farchitectural-history-theory-seminar-series-shiben-banerji-tickets-1718475800379 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Edinburgh - **state**: SC - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Hunter Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art - **lat**: 55.94513240000001 - **long**: -3.1980625 - **full address**: Hunter Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Edinburgh College of Art (https://allevents.in/org/edinburgh-college-of-art/25024053) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/d40fd25664466efa4cdb048d89dba39ad4c3eb28e1c9a20e0ac803e244cbf744-rimg-w512-h256-dcebc4a7-gmir.jpg?v=1759530389 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/b27d8f7c8a0da801fc645cdc77d684f94b622b1729d7286f5b69c5372dfb6af8-rimg-w400-h400-dcebc5a8-gmir.jpg?v=1759530388 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Tue, 25 Nov, 2025 at 05:15 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Hunter Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Edinburgh College of Art - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** workshops, art, literary-art, nonprofit, virtual - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Architectural History & Theory Seminar Series| Shiben Banerji ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Architectural History & Theory Seminar Series| Shiben Banerji", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/d40fd25664466efa4cdb048d89dba39ad4c3eb28e1c9a20e0ac803e244cbf744-rimg-w512-h256-dcebc4a7-gmir.jpg?v=1759530389", "startDate": "2025-11-25", "endDate": "2025-11-25", "url": "https://allevents.in/edinburgh/architectural-history-and-theory-seminar-series|-shiben-banerji/100001718475800379", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Hunter Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "74 Lauriston Place", "postalCode": "EH3 9DF", "addressLocality": "Edinburgh", "addressRegion": "SC", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "55.94513240000001", "longitude": "-3.1980625" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Formal Symmetry, Artful Irregularity, and the Modernist Study of the Past", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "2025-11-25", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/edinburgh/architectural-history-and-theory-seminar-series|-shiben-banerji/100001718475800379" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/edinburgh/architectural-history-and-theory-seminar-series|-shiben-banerji/100001718475800379", "price": 0, "name": "In person attendance" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/edinburgh/architectural-history-and-theory-seminar-series|-shiben-banerji/100001718475800379", "price": 0, "name": "Online attendance" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Edinburgh College of Art", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/edinburgh-college-of-art/25024053", "description": "Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) at The University of Edinburgh, brings together creative practices that shape the world around us." } ] } ] ```