"To See, to Record, to Photograph": Discovering Pierre Bourdieu's Rediscovered Photographs of the Berber House, Uncovering Architecture as an Intellectualist Art

Hélène Lipstadt is a Research Affiliate of the School of Architecture and Planning and a former Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, History Theory Criticism Section at MIT. The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu has served as the methodological framework for her numerous studies of architectural competitions, exhibitions, periodicals, and publication, and monuments. She is chairing a session at the Society of Architectural Historians 2004 Annual Meeting, in which the state of Bourdieu-inspired research in architecture will be examined.