Backstory Podcast featuring Professor Lydia Brandt
PiKappaAlpha House at the University of Alabama. A Fraternity House in the "Plantation Revival" style. Photo: Lydia Brandt.
Professor of Art History, Lydia Mattice Brandt, was featured in a BackStory Podcast interview with her research partner, Philip Mills Herrington, about her latest research on southern architecture. The interview discusses the use of giant white columns to signal exclusivity in the architecture of American homes and fraternity houses.
Professor Brandt’s scholarship asks questions about the ways in which American buildings and landscapes shape and respond to popular ideas about the past. She is an active historic preservationist and advocate for community history. Since 2011, Brandt has taught the history of architecture and American art and the methods and theories of historic preservation at UofSC.