Keller Easterling travels the world to explore architectural sites that are embroiled in the politics of global trade, labor, tourism, and security. Concentrating on resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and similar enclaves, Easterling explores how these seemingly banal enterprises, when adopted by rogue nations, cults, diplomats, and other impresarios, become instruments of political strategies and conflicts.

An architect, urbanist, and writer, Easterling is the author of Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (MIT Press, 2005), Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses in America (MIT Press, 1999), and the laserdisc history of suburbia Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built (Voyager Company, 1992).

Cosponsored by the Architecture Program.