Hannah Ahlblad is an architect and PhD student in the Theory and History of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and an A.M. candidate in the History of Science. Her research bridges spatial history and American foreign relations, with a focus on how Cold War nuclear physics, modernist architecture, and state-backed science programs reconfigured both local environments and global narratives of national sovereignty in the Indian subcontinent and Latin America. Using archival material across multiple languages and borders she engages in conversations on the politics of perception, architectural and scientific language, and networks of international technology transfer. She has written about the social impact of visible and invisible urban form in the U.S., Afghanistan, India, and Mexico for Texas Architect Magazine, ArchDaily, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, and The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design.
Hannah holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was awarded the E.D. Farmer International Fellowship and the UTSoA Travel Scholarship for field research on cognitive mapping and the legacy of integración plástica in Mexico City. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and minor in Economics from Wellesley College.
