Welcome!
Below are the SAH regional chapter news updates received by the liaison during the months of June and July 2021.
-Amanda Roth Clark
2021 Know Your Chicago Season
The Know Your Chicago committee takes great pleasure in welcoming you to our seventy-second season of civic engagement with the Chicago community. This tour season will be unlike any we have offered before, and brings our unique brand of behind-the-scenes access to your personal computer. Over two Tours, registrants are invited to learn more about two important topics: the fate and future of architectural gems on Chicago’s South Side, and the vital role that equal access to internet plays in our communities and City’s future.
Tour 1: Hiding in Plain Sight: Architectural Gems of the South Side
Going my way? Join noted architecture critic and photographer Lee Bey as he takes us on a personal virtual tour of Chicago’s special places based on his recent book, Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side. He’ll take us to rarely visited sites and show us how to see neighborhoods in new ways. Presented on September 15th, this unique tour includes the virtual video program, interviews with experts, an interactive discussion with Q&A and downloadable reading materials including building information, maps, and biographies.
Here is the YouTube link for the recording of the Architectural Tour of the World with Martina Mathisen program on 7/27:
It will be available for the next four weeks.
Enjoy!
Reference Desk
Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District Main Library
Authors on Architecture:
Parsons on Colcord
Saturday, July 24th, 2021, 1PM PST
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Join SAH/SCC and author Bret Parsons as he discusses the work of Gerard Colcord and if you would rather be outside on Saturday, buy a ticket anyway and we will send you a recording of the program to watch at your leisure…
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APT-DVC invites you to a very special webinar
THE RESTORATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, A CASE STUDY
The Restoration of the American Academy of Music: A Case Study
Thursday, July 29th at 5:00 PM.
Free, registration requited at
https://imiweb-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rc-6rqj0oGtyHTePjjGcSs-VCbANfsKCA
Built from 1855-87, the American Academy of Music, also known as the “Grand Old Lady of Locust Street,” is the oldest opera house in the United States. Over the last 164 years, this spectacular building has been the home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and is today the home of the Philadelphia Ballet and Opera. Members of the project team, Kathryn Brown of Building Conservation Associates, and Ari Seraphin of Keast and Hood will discuss the recent restoration of this National Historic Landmark.
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The General Meade Society invites you to join us for
OUR ANNUAL TREK TO CITIZENS BANK PARK: PHILLIES VS. TAMPA BAY RAYS
Tuesday, August 24, game time is 7:05 PM
We are in the First Level, the Right Field bleachers Section 106 (Harper Valley!!)
The tickets will be $34 each with a discount of $4 down from the regular price of $38.
For tickets please email Tom Kearney at turkeytk@aol.com with your name and the number of tickets you need.
If you are so inclined, you can make a check out to TOM KEARNEY for the number of seats x $34 and mail to:
Tom Kearney
303 Forest Ave
Ambler, PA 19002
Email Tom with any questions. This is always a fun event!
Philadelphia Chapter Society of Architectural Historians presents
A WALKING TOUR OF LANCASTER, PA
with Gregg Scott, FAIA and Jim Douglas, AIA
Saturday, July 31, 2021, 10:00 a.m. to approx. 1:00 p.m.
Meets at The Lancaster Theological Seminary Parking Lot
555 W James Street (at the corner of College Avenue)
(free parking compliments of the Seminary)
Cost $20.00 per person
We have a few spaces open on our Phila Chapter SAH Members walking tour which we are opening to non-members.
Advance registration is required at info@philachaptersah,org
Lancaster is accessible by car or Amtrak service from Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Public bus service is available between the Lancaster Amtrak Station and The Lancaster Theological Seminary.
Sandy Smith, Philadelphia Magazine’s Real Estate editor recently wrote, “Lancaster has to be the coolest small city in the state, and maybe even the entire Mid-Atlantic region.” Lancaster City was the vision of James Hamilton in 1734 and considered to be the ‘stepping off point’ to the Ohio River Valley and the frontier beyond. Pioneers would secure their Conestoga wagons and Pennsylvania long rifles in Lancaster before heading west. The 286 years of history provides a wealth of architectural styles that are available to discover in a very condensed and tight nucleus around the town center.
Our walking tour begins at the historic Franklin & Marshall College campus and includes a six-block walk to center city along mansion row. See multiple examples of Chateauesque, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, English Country, Spanish Revival, Dutch Colonial, Norman Gothic, Queen Anne and Second Empire. Ending in center city, Penn Square supports an additional fourteen architectural styles within a two-block radius of the 1874 Gothic Revival Civil War memorial. The vast inventory of diverse architectural styles in excellent condition impresses even the most fervent architectural critics. Our tour will adjourn with lunch (not included) at the internationally acclaimed 1889 Romanesque Revival Central Market, a commission won by James H. Warner when he was only twenty-four years old! (https://centralmarketlancaster.com/)
Authors on Architecture:
Parsons on Colcord
Saturday, July 24th, 2021, 1PM PST
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Join SAH/SCC and author Bret Parsons as he discusses the work of Gerard Colcord and if you would rather be outside on Saturday, buy a ticket anyway and we will send you a recording of the program to watch at your leisure…
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Screenshot of SAH MDR Chapter YouTube Channel; Amanda Roth Clark, 2021.
17 July 2021
Hello SAH MDR Chapter membership,
Our truncated and virtual annual business meeting came and went successfully; we celebrate new leadership! If you couldn’t attend, you can still watch regional delegate Jim Buckley’s short video presenting the upcoming Albina African Cultural Heritage Conservation Project in Portland, Oregon, on our SAH MDR Chapter YouTube Channel, here.
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Designed by Paul Hayden Kirk, image courtesy of Grant Hildebrand (2021).
Grant Hildebrand:
Grant Hildebrand’s book entitled Paul Hayden Kirk and the Puget Sound School is nearing publication, and is expected to be available this autumn. It examines the work of Paul Kirk and his colleagues who, from 1950 through the 1980s, created a remarkable architecture of small wooden buildings. Most American buildings of that scale have been built of wood, but for those architects it was the defining feature; they loved wood. It was their material of choice for interior and exterior surfaces, and for their always-exposed structures. They detailed it to express its own nature, the means of its construction, and, often, its structural purpose, and they either left it in its natural state or with a slight protective stain. That work has been folded into what has been called the Northwest Style, or Northwest Modernism, but the wooden architecture of Kirk and his compatriots is distinguished by features, shared within it, that are unique to it. Its architects were not particularly interested in widespread admiration of their work, and it did not hold a prominent place in the architectural headlines of its time. It has remained little known.
Hildebrand’s book presents an architecture of a quality unsurpassed in the nation, perhaps the world, in its time. He examines in depth forty of its key buildings, illustrating them with sixty black and white photos and drawings, and over a hundred photos in color, sixty-three of them taken by Andrew van Leeuwen specifically for the book. His book helps establish the unique place of Paul Hayden Kirk’s wooden buildings, and those of his Puget Sound School colleagues, in the history of U.S. architecture.
The book runs to 176 pages, and
includes 164 illustrations, 63 of which were professionally taken for the book. It is available for pre-order.
Dale Kutzera’s compendium on the work Paul Hayden Kirk and the Rise of Northwest Modern, has likewise been printed: The 272-page book measures 9.5″ x 11″ and is illustrated with hundreds of photos and drawings from the Kirk Archive at the University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections—many in color. Included are several presentation drawings by the noted architect and educator Astra Zarina, who worked in Kirk’s office in the mid-1950s. The book is available for purchase here. |
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REMEMBRANCE OF ARTHUR A. HART
1921 – 2020
by Elisabeth Walton Potter
On December 9, 2020, in Boise, Idaho, the Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, lost one of its leading figures of years gone by. Arthur A. Hart was a native of Tacoma, gained his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington and subsequently earned a Master of Fine Arts degree before being recruited to the Art Department faculty of the College of Idaho, in Caldwell. He pursued a keen interest in the history, art and architecture of his adopted state, became an accomplished photographer, and produced two dozen books on topics relating to the built environment and social history of the Idaho capital and environs. He crowned his career as Director of the Idaho State Historical Society. For years, even after retirement and despite ultimately being confined at home by declining mobility, he continued his long-running weekly column on historical topics for the Boise Idaho Statesman. He had been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by the College of Idaho in 1985 and was recognized by the American Institute of Architects as an honorary member for promoting awareness of the region’s historic buildings, places, and exemplary design.
The chapter sent congratulations to Arthur at the approach of his 99th birthday on February 13, 2020. The object was to celebrate his service as past president of the Pacific Northwest regional chapter, SAH, 1974-1976, as Idaho regional representative on the chapter’s governing board 1971-1998, and as presenter of ten scholarly papers and two featured addresses at SAH chapter conferences. He is remembered as the genial organizer and tour leader of three memorable conferences in Boise that for main events made use of such venues as the 1925 Carrère & Hastings Mission/Spanish Colonial style Union Pacific Railroad passenger station, the Idaho State Historical Museum, and the Basque Museum and Cultural Center. Arthur is survived by his wife, the former Novella Cochran, four daughters and their respective families and a host of admiring friends and associates.
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Richard L. Dorman, FAIA:
An Audacious Modernism
Saturday, July 17th, 2021, 1PM PST
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Join SAH/SCC President Sian Winship for an exciting new program on the legacy of Modern master, Richard L. Dorman…and if you would rather be outside on Saturday, buy a ticket anyway and we will send you a recording of the program to watch at your leisure…
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Dear SAH-NY members and friends,
Please note that the Skyscraper Museum walking tour of Battery Park City will repeat on July July 15, 21, and 24. You can find details and registration at this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-business-core-tickets-156562485609
The Philadelphia Club presents
Philadelphia Museum of Art: New Galleries for American Art, 1650-1850
with David Barquist, The H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., Curator of American Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Noon, Friday, July 9, 2021
This is a live event for Philadelphia Club members and their guests at the club, but others are invited to attend virtually at this link:
https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/S2_eCOYkw0T5pn6NtEs-P5
Meeting ID: 845 9430 2855
Password: 643479
David’s special illustrated presentation is to help celebrate completion of the Museum’s Core Project, which includes dramatic new public spaces designed by architect Frank Gehry and the new 10,000 square-foot Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Galleries of American Art.*
In addition to providing an overview of the new galleries, David will give a behind-the-scenes look at the process of designing the Museum’s first new presentation of American art in over forty years. The team of curators and other Museum staff began by identifying iconic objects from the collection to serve as signposts in a largely chronological presentation. At the same time, they had to identify interpretive themes that would enable visitors to understand the complexities of American culture as it changed over two centuries. One challenge was to properly highlight works of great aesthetic quality and address the political, social, and economic forces behind their creation, issues that have become increasingly important for museums to face head-on.
David Barquist has served as The H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 2004. He received an A.B. in fine arts from Harvard College, an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, and his Ph.D. in history of art from Yale University. From 1981-2004 he served as Assistant, Associate, and then Acting Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery. His books include American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (1992) and Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York (2001), the subject of his dissertation and the catalogue for a traveling loan exhibition. Currently he and Curator Emerita Beatrice Garvan are continuing work on a catalogue of the American silver collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the first volume, covering makers A-F, was published in December 2018 and presented at the club; volume two will be forthcoming in spring 2023.
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PARKWAY IDEAS WORKSHOP
See three international design teams share their concepts for the redesign of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Wednesday, July 14, 6-8 PM
at the Barnes Foundation and livestreamed
The City of Philadelphia is reimagining the Benjamin Franklin Parkway!
Earlier this year, with support from William Penn Foundation, the City requested proposals from renowned design teams to create a world-class public realm plan for pedestrian-centric, permanent changes that will dramatically improve the safety, functionality, and beauty of the Parkway.
The Parkway Ideas Workshop: Design Panel is the second phase of the design process. The three world-class design teams that are being considered to lead the redesign will present their ideas to evolve the Parkway into its next inclusive, pedestrian-friendly iteration.
The three design teams are:
MVRDV
DLand Studio + DIGSAU
Design Workshop
The Parkway Ideas Workshop: Design Panel is a limited, in-person event that will be livestreamed.
Please register to attend in person or for the livestream ticket option to receive a link to watch it (see below).
The event includes remarks from Parks & Rec Commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell and Deputy Managing Director of the Office of Infrastructure, Transportation, and Sustainability Mike Carroll.
Harris Steinberg, executive director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University, will serve as host for the event and facilitate a panel discussion.
The panel will include:
Mitchell Silver, former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and current Principal, Vice President of Planning at McAdams
David Brownlee, Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Art at the University of Pennsylvania
Tya Winn, Executive Director of the Community Design Collaborative, Philadelphia
The project is supported by a generous grant from the William Penn Foundation and produced in partnership with the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University.
Register for the event with Eventbrite here: https://parkway-ideas-workshop-july-14.eventbrite.com
Find more information about the entire Parkway Ideas Workshop here: https://www.phlparkway.com/
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SAVE THE DATE
Friends of Northeast Philadelphia History Present the
Northeast Philadelphia History Fair
At Cannstatter Volkfest Verein, 9130 Academy Road, Philadelphia, PA 19114
Saturday, September 18, 2021
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Free Admission, All Are Welcome
Historic Displays, Presentations on Local History
Books, Prints, Photographs, and Other Historical Items Available
Annual Student Symposium!
The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
is pleased to announce its
42nd Annual Student Symposium
Saturday, June 26, 2021
9:15am-4:00pm
Virtual Conference
Pre-registration is required to attend! Please register here.
Paper abstracts and speaker bios will be sent to all symposium registrants.
A full symposium program is available on our website: nesah.org
Save Our Sites Annual spring tour
In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the founding of Save Our Sites
Saturday June 19th, 4-6 pm
A VISIT TO THE NEW MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM
1214 Reed Street, South Philadelphia
In the spring of 2019 Save Our Sites visited the home of famed African-American, Mezzo-Soprano Marian Anderson. This year we will visit the new museum dedicated to another musical child of South Philadelphia, the great Italian-American tenor, Mario Lanza.
At 4 pm Save Our Sites we will be offered a tour of the museum by director Bill Ronayne followed by a celebratory reception.
Tickets for the event are $10.00, payable to the Mario Lanza Institute, cash or check only. Payment goes to the Institute, not to Save Our Sites. Reservations are required. RSVP to davidstraub@verizon.net
The Mario Lanza Institute is the recipient of the 2021 Save Our Sites award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. The Institute has created an imaginative, new cultural amenity, utilizing an unused commercial space, adding to the vitality of this traditional South Philadelphia neighborhood.
To watch recordings of our three winter 2020/2021 lectures please view our YouTube page here: https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/ewWMCpYK3jT9RvlBhP5OlV
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Penn Museum Great Monuments Lecture Series presents
BUILDING MONUMENTS, MONUMENTALIZING BUILDINGS
by David Brownlee, Ph.D., Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor Emeritus, Penn History of Art
Wednesday June 23, 2021
6:00-7:30 p.m. EDT
This is a virtual event.
$5 Adult, purchase tickets at:
https://446.blackbaudhosting.com/446/Building-Monuments-Monumentalizing-Buildings–May
What makes a building a monument? Some of the buildings that hold the most meaning for us, including Independence Hall, were not built to be monuments. What monumentalized them? And some of the most ambitious programs to build monuments, like Philadelphia’s City Hall, notably failed to capture contemporary attention. What went wrong? History offers important lessons for us today, as we strive to create monuments that reflect our values and aspirations.
David Brownlee, Ph.D., Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor Emeritus, Penn History of Art, is a historian of modern architecture whose interests embrace a wide range of subjects in Europe and America, from the late 18th century to the present. Dr. Brownlee has won numerous fellowships, and his work has earned three major publication prizes from the Society of Architectural Historians. He is also a recipient of Penn’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. His film Philadelphia: Our Nation’s First World Heritage City, produced and directed by Sam Katz, was made in 2016 to explain Philadelphia’s new designation, for which he had worked. And in 2019 he worked with the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to create a short film about the PSFS Building, winner of the “Fifty Year Timeless Award” from the AIA.
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Authors on Architecture:
Wigley on Wachsmann
Saturday, June 19th, 2021, 1PM PST
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Join us for an exciting new program and learn about architect Konrad Wachsmann…and if you would rather be outside on Saturday, buy a ticket anyway and we will send you a recording of the program to watch at your leisure…
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Zoom member meeting Friday, June 18, 2021, 1pm-2pm pacific time
Join us to hear and discuss these agenda items:
-New officers will take office and a salute to the outgoing officers (Amanda)
-Get ready! The upcoming autumn virtual papers session (Jenni/Ahsha)
-Be excited! 2022 Forest Grove conference, dates, and initial plans! (Chris)
-Financial report and update (Mimi)
-Jim Buckley (short video clip) to introduce new initiatives
-Potter award winner for 2021 (Amanda)
-A 60-second history on who our chapter is named after (Amanda)
-SAH MDR Chapter goes Zoom! (Ahsha)
-A bright future for our website redesign (Tim)
-Vote on the slight bylaw change (Chris)
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Image courtesy of of Amanda Roth Clark
Celebrating SAH MDR Chapter Board MembersIt has been my honor to serve as the president of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians these past two years, nearly the entirety of this time in the zoomland of a global pandemic.
I grew up around Marion Dean Ross, whose name was adopted as our chapter name, many years ago, in his honor. As a child during one of my parents’ annual fêtes, I would circle the living room with a tray of hors d’oeuvres in my hands, and Marion would exclaim that while he wasn’t enthusiastic about children, I was a remarkable child. I have attempted to live up to his estimation ever since. To learn more about Marion, see https://library.uoregon.edu/design/ross, and to learn more about the chapter history, download our chapter history here http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19421.
I have a great love for this regional chapter of the SAH. We are a wonderfully mixed group of enthusiasts of architecture, practitioners, preservationists, and scholars. We gather in offbeat locales to share this passion for the built environment. I hope this chapter never loses its charm as we continue to develop and expand—ours is a legacy worth preserving.
As I move out of this role as president, I am thrilled with the incoming slate of officers. The chapter has a bright future with growing attention to indigenous design and space, the history of our region writ-large, and all the twists and turns that our urban landscapes offer as outdoor classrooms of intentional placemaking. As the current international SAH liaison to chapters, I can say with confidence that our chapter is unique, large, esteemed, and lauded. We hold an important place within the Society—let us make that impact be felt.
I look forward to working with you all in my support role as past-president.
Ever yours,
Amanda Roth Clark, June 2021.
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A Brief and Exciting History of Brick Architecture in Chicago
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Online
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm CST
This presentation covers the history of brickmaking and brick building in Chicago, from 1830 to today. We’ll follow the trends and fashions in Chicago’s brick buildings: From homegrown common bricks, to imported red bricks, to wild colors, textures, and terracottas of the 1910s-30s, to Miesian modern bricks, and more. The presentation will also look into several buildings from the past 10 years that have used brick in innovative and dynamic ways. The presentation will be accompanied by photos of beautiful brick buildings from across Chicago’s many neighborhoods.
The Presenter
Will Quam lives in Chicago and is an architecture photographer, architecture writer, and researcher. Did we mention he loves bricks?
He documented the brick as a way to pay more attention to the world around him and encourage others to do the same. And it was like learning a whole new language and suddenly discovering great texts hidden in the buildings around him.
Above all, he believes that nothing is boring. Everything can be interesting and exciting. Even bricks.
$10 general admission/$8 members
Price per device
Tuesday, June 15 5:00 p.m. CDT Via Zoom Hear from architectural historian Lisa Schrenk about her new book, which breaks the myth of Wright as the lone genius and reveals new insights into the architect’s early career through the lens of his residential studio in Oak Park between 1898 and 1909. With a rich narrative voice and meticulous detail, Schrenk tracks the practice’s evolution: addressing how the studio fits into…
| WORLD VIEW: Designing Global Supertalls
Watch the 13 Videos of the Lecture Series |
| Our recent WORLD VIEW lecture series was extraordinary in manifold ways. The 13-week super-seminar brought together the architects and engineers who have designed the tallest buildings on the planet. They presented their work in depth, generally focusing for an hour or more on a single tower and explaining the dimensions of the project from competition to commission, working with clients and local officials, and solving unprecedented challenges of construction. Across the weeks of the series, divided equally between architects and engineers, a history of the supertall began to emerge. The speakers listened to each other’s talks and commented on and expanded the discussion in the ensuing sessions. |
| This history reached back into the 1990s with the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, which pioneered the supertall typology not only in global expansion, but also in the embrace of concrete construction. To follow this history chronologically in the series, we suggest beginning with the four talks below. To view any of the lectures in the series, visit the landing page for the series on our website and click on a link. |
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| Bill Baker, Burj Khalifa: What We Learned |
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Authors on Architecture:
Moses on Henry L.A. Jekel
Saturday, June 12th, 2021, 1PM PST
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Author Vincent Moses shares the remarkable story of the young, successful architect, Henry L.A. Jekel who designed a number of buildings in Buffalo and skyscrapers on the East Coast, but came to Southern California to reinvent himself.
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A piece commissioned by Sid Robinson in honor of Taliesin’s Centennial Celebration. It includes a discussion of the relationship of music and architecture with Sid and the composer David Skidmore.
Details are here:
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| Greetings Colleagues,
It has been some time since the last News email – thank you for your patience during this busy time. And now there is much to share…
This first announcement is time sensitive. The Call for Papers for the SAH 2022 Conference in Pittsburgh (April 27-May 1) has been extended. Submissions are due June 8 at 11:59 pm CDT. Please consider submitting (if you haven’t already) for one of the several landscape-themed sessions chaired by chapter members:
Landscape History Open Session
Session Chair: D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mobility and Access in Modern Urban Landscapes
Session Chair: Pollyanna Rhee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Water: Form, Substance, and Meaning in the Landscape
Session Chair: Ann Komara, University of Colorado Denver
There are also several sessions engaging landscape-related themes such as climate, urbanism, and environment.
Also involving the 2022 SAH conference in Pittsburgh: a call for session proposals on the theme of race, equity and social justice. This session is part of the SAH IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Sustainability) Initiative. Deadline for proposals is June 21.
Calling Early Career Scholars:
Who are we? Where are we working and studying?How are we navigating the unique challenges and opportunities of this moment, and what events and resources might we create together? Let’s meet and find out.
If interested, please email Margot Lystra (margot.lystra@umontreal.ca). |
| OFFICERS
President
Kathleen John-Alder
Rutgers University
Vice President
William Coleman
The Olana Partnership
Secretary
Royce Earnest
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Newsletter Editor
Margot Lystra
University of Montreal
(2019-2021)
Advisory Board
Finola O’Kane Crimmins
University College Dublin
(2019-2022)
John Dean Davis
Ohio State University
(2019-2022)
Georges Farhat
University of Toronto
(2019-2022)
Mohammad Gharipour
Morgan State University
(2021-2024)
Margot Lystra
University of Montreal
(2021-2024)
Stephen Whiteman
The Courtauld Institute of Art
(2021-2024)
Jan Woudstra
The University of Sheffield
(2021-2024) |
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| The California Garden and Landscape History Society‘s journal Eden recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. You can view past issues online at https://cglhs.org/archives and learn more about the Society’s activities at www.cglhs.org. |
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| Call for Nominations:
The Cultural Landscape Foundation announces a call for nominations for Landslide, the foundation’s annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes. Landslide 2021: Race and Space will focus on long neglected and largely unknown cultural landscapes associated with African Americans and others. The report will be accompanied by a complementary online exhibition will include newly commissioned photographs and historical images, site plans, other archival materials and video interviews.
The deadline for nominations is June 15. Details can be found here. Questions or Landslide nominations can be submitted to Nord Wennerstrom (nord@tclf.org). |
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| Call for Nominations:
The deadline to submit nominations for the SAH 2022 Publication Awards is approaching.
Of particular relevance to the landscape history chapter is the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, which was established by the SAH Board in 2005 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of landscape architecture or garden design. Named for SAH past president and landscape historian Elisabeth MacDougall, the award honors the late historian’s role in developing this field of study.
Deadline is July 31.
Nomination forms here. |
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| Call for Proposals:
The Society of Architectural Historians presents year-round virtual programming through SAH CONNECTS, a series of workshops, roundtables, seminars, and discussions that focus on timely issues related to the history of the built environment. The Society invites individuals and those representing SAH Affiliate Groups, publications, programs, online educational resources, chapters, and partner organizations to submit a proposal for consideration for SAH CONNECTS.
The purpose of SAH CONNECTS is to allow for virtual sharing of scholarship, professional development workshops, book discussions, and other types of programs that will advance knowledge in the field of architectural history. We welcome proposals from those who study every time period and all aspects of the built environment, including landscape, urban history, heritage studies, and aspects of social justice as related to architecture.
SAH will send a Call for Proposals quarterly, but the portal for SAH CONNECTS programs is always open: you may submit a proposal at any time.
Deadline for this quarter’s call is June 30.
Details here. |
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Call for Proposals:
National Council on Public History 2022: “Crossroads”
If the last few years have shown us anything, it’s that we are currently standing at a crossroads. We have all witnessed monumental changes in society that have fundamentally altered how we see one another, how we interact with each other, and how we will go forward together in the future. Being at a crossroads allows us to reckon with the past while seeking solutions for repair and contributing to a more equitable society. As public historians, our work is critical in defining turning points, meaningful direction, and inspiring movement on paths toward progress.
Montreal is a city rich with diverse cultures, history, and art. Sharing borders with the US, Canada is an ideal locale to anchor discussions related to raising marginalized voices in reimagined narratives. This annual meeting will help create opportunities to reckon with and repair historical relationships, design experiences that enable groups to celebrate differences and similarities, and build tools and sustainable methods.
The Call for Session Proposals is open through July 15.
Details and submission portal here. |
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Call for Papers:
Landscapes in the Making
Organized by the Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, in partnership with the Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies.
Symposiarchs: Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham), Dell Upton (University of California, Los Angeles), and Thaïsa Way (Dumbarton Oaks)
How might historians narrate landscape design within broader human stories? How might alternative histories of landscape creation read, of its manifold makings and meanings in various periods and places focused on the people who imagine and shape the land? This call for papers seeks to identify research that looks beyond canonical histories of design and architecture to include the people, particularly socially marginalized communities, who are involved day-to-day in its making and meaning, including commemorating its past and planning its future. This call seeks to engage projects that generate counternarratives that reveal how alternative views of the past shape visions of the present and the future.
Online form and a 500-word abstract are due July 15.
Details and submission form here. |
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| Virtual webinar series:
Dumbarton Oaks presents Hidden Landscapes of the Past: Uncovering the Ancient World through LiDAR. In this interdisciplinary summer lecture series, speakers look at how different applications of LiDAR have changed our understanding of ancient landscapes.
Webinars occur Wednesdays, 2:00–3:30 p.m. EDT, unless otherwise noted.
Olmec and Maya Ceremonial Landscape Revealed through LiDAR
June 16, 2021 | Takeshi Inomata (University of Arizona)
The Garden City of Greater Angkor: Insights from Remote Sensing
June 23, 2021, 4:00–5:30 p.m. EDT | Roland Fletcher (University of Sydney)
Lasers below the Clouds: Mapping Kuelap with Drone-Mounted and Terrestrial LiDAR
June 30, 2021 | Parker VanValkenburgh (Brown University)
New Light under the Amazon Forest
July 7, 2021 | José Iriarte (University of Exeter)
Bathed in Light: Revealing Ohio’s Ancient Monuments with LiDAR
July 14, 2021 | Jarrod Burks (Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc.)
Visualizing Bomarzo: LiDAR and the Interpretation of an Enigmatic Renaissance Landscape
July 21, 2021, 4:00–5:30 p.m. EDT | Luke Morgan (Monash University)/John Garton (Clark University)
Taking the High Ground: A Model for Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns as Seen through LiDAR
July 28, 2021 | Marcello Canuto (Tulane University)
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I hope that everyone is well. We are excited to share information about a wonderful new book by former Guild president Judy Bentley. The book launch is scheduled for June 3, 6PM, through the University Bookstore. It’ll be virtual. Here’s the
link to sign up.
Hiking Washington’s History Second Edition
Judy Bentley and Craig Romano
The trail guide for History buffs—and a History book For Hikers
For thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular ter- rain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and trade emporiums on the rivers, forests of old growth, and homesteads and towns on prairies. These traditional routes have been preserved in national parks, restored by cities and towns, salvaged from old railroad tracks, and opened to hikers by Indigenous communities.
In this new, full-color edition of the first-ever hiking guide to the state’s historic trails, historian and hiker
Judy Bentley teams up with veteran guidebook author
Craig Romano to lead adventurers of all abilities along trails on the coast, over mountains, through national forests, across plateaus, and on the banks of the Columbia River.
Features include:
• 44 hikes, including 12 new additions
• Full-color trail maps
• A trails timeline that connects hikes to key events
• Updated trail descriptions
• Accounts from diaries, journals, and archives
• Historical overviews of 8 regions of the state
• Contemporary and historical photographs
Bentley and Romano offer an essential boots-on-the ground history of some of
the state’s most fascinating places.
Judy Bentley taught Pacific Northwest history at South Seattle College for more than twenty years and is an avid hiker and author of fifteen young adult books.
Craig Romano is author or coauthor of more than twenty-five guidebooks, including 100 Classic Hikes: Washington (third edition), and many books in the Day Hiking and Urban Trails series.
