A Conversation with Ann Pendleton-Jullian

Architect, astrophysicist, scholar, and Valparaiso-aficionado Ann Pendleton-Jullian talks about Chile, Chilean architecture and landscape, and the “ad hoc, ongoing work of art” that is Ciudad Abierta. Pendletton-Jullian, author of Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile, visited MoMA to talk to the C-MAP Latin America group about her 28+ year relationship with the methodologies, poetic acts, buildings, and stories behind Ciudad Abierta. While at the Museum, she was in conversation with Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator Emeritas, and Patricio del Real, curatorial assistant, both part of the the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA. Here’s a sneak peak at what that conversation was like.

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