Compared to the smooth, polished concrete surfaces typical of the rest of campus, these bumpy walls were a shock to CU Alumni and visitors when the building was officially dedicated in May of 1966.
Read MoreThe name "Steel-Toed-Stilettos" I liked because it is such a juxtaposition - the cheesy clip art graphics even get this across.
Read MoreLatour and Emilie Hermant made a multimedia companion to Reassembling the Social called Paris: Invisible City which offers a tour of Paris, but not of the common structures and tourist destinations - instead, the typically "invisible" services, objects, and actions that keep the city running.
I bring this up because it helps explain what I am trying to do here in Boulder with the Engineering Center Building - tracing out the typically "invisible" work done by the creators, designers, administrators, students, faculty, staff, janitors, generators, transformers, HVAC systems, and more that keep the structure intact, viable, and persisting through many generations of graduating students.
Read MoreThese two groups of influential and pioneering women were contemporaries in the 1940’s: a hundred female calculators on the East Coast, sequestered together crunching numbers on missile ballistics and trajectory while in Hollywood, hundreds of female inkers and painters lived a similarly invisible but impacting existence drawing the outlines and painting the foundation of our much-loved characters.
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