Friday, November 20, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Harvard Book Store — 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes Brian D. Goldstein —architectural and urban historian, an associate professor and chair of the Art History Program at Swarthmore College, and author of the award-winning book The Roots of Urban Renaissance —for a discussion of his new book, Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect . About Max Bond The first biography of a preeminent postwar architect who championed the cause of freedom through architecture and transformed Black history and modernism. J. Max Bond Jr. (1935–2009) was a civil rights activist, educator, and architect who shaped such iconic structures as the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in Manhattan. Driven by the concerns of the civil rights movement, he insisted on a practice centered on deep social engagement during years when his profession became preoccupied with celebrity and spectacle. Harvard educated and son of an eminent African American family, Bond designed housing, cultural institutions, community centers, and campuses amid an era of sweeping changes in architecture,…