Join us Thursday evening for a fascinating image-filled lecture about the history of Grace Hill (8410 Prospect Avenue) and the people who created it and called it home – deeply researched and presented by its current owner Dr. Joseph Pizzano.
Dr. Pizzano’s interest in Grace Hill began with the original blueprints and other archival information gifted to him by Ned Wood, a prior owner, and grew from there over the decades. Grace Hill was built for publisher and railroad manager Cephas Childs in 1855, a year before the Chestnut Hill Railroad began operations. It was subsequently named Grace Hill and substantially altered by the Patterson and Woods families with plans by several notable architects. These prominent families were directly involved in the thoughtful evolution of Chestnut Hill from a summer retreat to a residential community – an evolution that directly affected this home. The property was subdivided in 1975, with Grace Hill remaining a single family home and its outbuildings converted to also be single family homes. *************************************************** Design Advocacy Group presents FRAMING THE FUTURE OF THE ROUNDHOUSE Thursday, March 9 at 10:00 AM Free, please register here for the Zoom link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-the-roundhouse-tickets-524023687957
Join DAG, Andy Toy, Paul Steinke, and Ian Litwi for this important discussion
The former Police Administration Building at 7th and Race Streets, known colloquially as The Roundhouse, was conceived in the late 1950s during the progressive administration of Mayor Richardson Dilworth. The city engaged internationally-recognized Philadelphia firm GBQC Architects to design a building that would serve as an icon of modern, democratic, and transparent policing. It is a quintessential example of Philadelphia School modernism, and among the first buildings in the United States to expertly utilize the form and function of precast concrete. Completed in 1962, The Roundhouse soon entered a dark phase due to associations with destructive urban renewal programs and brutal, racist policing. That said, the Roundhouse can and should be repurposed. It is an immense 125,000 sq. ft., multi-floor structure. It is comprised of almost 90% precast concrete, structurally sound, and only sixty years old. To demolish this building would represent a waste of multiple kinds: a waste of durable building materials and their embodied energy; a wasted opportunity to leverage publicly-controlled assets toward better preservation outcomes; a wasted opportunity to model how modernist, buildings can be repurposed and successfully incorporated into larger contemporary projects; and a wasted opportunity to wrestle with and reclaim the building’s unintended legacy as a symbol of police oppression. *************************************************** PennDesign presents HOUSING JUSTICE FUTURES. PHILADELPHIA FORUM ON DESIGN, RACE, AND CLIMATE CHANGE Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17, 2023 For more information and registration: https://www.design.upenn.edu/events/housing-justice-futures
HOUSING JUSTICE FUTURES will consider housing design and policy at the intersection of racial equity and climate change. As the frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters continues to rise, the provision of safe and resilient housing remains a critical need. At the same time, black, indigenous, and other households of color shoulder disproportionate impacts of climate change while facing systemic disparities in disaster relief assistance. Engaging researchers, and practitioners, and community stakeholders, we will examine the historical inequities that precipitated the housing crisis in Philadelphia and other US cities while considering actionable strategies for housing justice in the future. **************************************************** Enjoy! Mary Anne
Subject:NESAH Reminder: 2023 Directors’ Night / Annual Meeting on 2/27
REMINDER: Just five more days until our 2023 Directors’ Night / Annual Meeting. Don’t forget to register in advance!
EVENT DETAILS:
2023 Directors’ Night / Annual Meeting Monday, February 27 7:00pm A brief business meeting will precede the presentation of papers. Presented via Zoom; Pre-registration required. Dennis DeWitt
Brookline’s Mount Vernon Portico Houses Three tall columned houses in Brookline’s Green Hill neighborhood, dating from 1794 to 1806, have been identified with the label “Jamaica Planter.” Two are associated with well known later occupants — architect Henry Hobson Richardson and Boston Grand Dame, Isabella Stewart Gardner. Exploring the genesis of “Jamaica Planter” revealed only a casually generated term that offered a convenient explanation for some unusual houses. However, it did not comport with the first of these houses, Senator George Cabot’s “Old Green Hill.” Its inspiration may have been George Washington’s Mount Vernon portico.
Dennis De Witt holds Masters degrees in architecture from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Past-President of S.A.H./New England, a former Vice-Chair of the Brookline Preservation Commission, a Director and Past-President of Boston’s Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, and a Commissioner of the Massachusetts Historical Commission. He has been involved with historic preservation for over 50 years. His book-length publications include Modern Architecture in Europe: A Guide to Buildings Since the Industrial Revolution and various studies related to Boston’s 19th century water system, its architects and technology.
Diana Martinez
The Olmsteds and the Imperial Prospect In March of 1901 the U.S. Secretary of War wrote to the Olmsted firm requesting advice on improvements to Manila. Though Olmsted Jr. declined the job, he deeply influenced Daniel Burnham’s eventual plans. This paper will consider the legibility of U.S. Empire insofar as it is expressed in Olmsted’s work and influence. Diana Martinez is an assistant professor of architectural history and the director of architectural studies at Tufts University. She is completing a book manuscript, Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Infrastructure, Urbanism and the American Colonial Project in the Philippines.
Robert Cowherd
Doing History in the Anthropocene Teaching history to undergraduates as they inherit the multiple intertwined crises of the 21st century compels a critical reexamination of what we teach and how. Facing a torrent of information, how do they construct a dependable foundation for collective action? The challenge is to replace conventional teaching and learning mindsets to mobilize a more confident generation of history practitioners. Instead of studying history, college students can get a jump on a lifetime of doing history . Robert Cowherd, PhD, is a Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. His research and publications focus on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in Southeast Asia and Latin America. He is the author most recently of “Batavian Apartheid: Mapping Bodies, Constructing Identities” in Southeast of Now and “Decolonizing Bamboo” in Dialectic IX . He is former President of the New England Society of Architectural Historians.
SESAH February 2023 Newsletter
SESAH Newsletter
February 2023
Photo Courtesy of Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau
SESAH 2023 Annual Conference CFP
The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) is now accepting proposals for papers or sessions to be presented at the 2023 SESAH Conference to be held in Little Rock, Arkansas, from September 27-30. The paper sessions will be held on Thursday and Friday, September 28 and 29. Please submit paper and/or session proposals via email at papers@sesah.org by May 4, 2023. Find more information here.
Please join SESAH for the 2023 annual conference, which will be held in Little Rock, Arkansas, Wednesday through Saturday, September 27-30, 2023. The conference hotel is the DoubleTree, which is located in the heart of downtown Little Rock near the River Market District and approximately one mile from the Clinton Presidential Center.
The Board of Directors meeting will be held on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday will comprise the paper sessions, opening reception as well as the keynote address. The conference’s keynote address will be held at the Old State House Museum, a National Historic Landmark that is adjacent to the DoubleTree Hotel. The study tour will be held on Saturday and will feature properties in Little Rock and its environs dating from prehistoric times to the mid-twentieth century.
Please keep checking the website for more details as they become available, and we look forward to seeing you in Little Rock in September 2023!
SESAH Conference Travel Grants
SESAH offers grants for travel to its annual conference for students and emerging professionals with the Student Conference Travel Grant and Emerging Professionals Conference Travel Grant. These grants support the recipient’s presentation of a scholarly paper at the conference as well as full attendance in conference activities: paper sessions, business meeting/awards ceremony, and keynote address. The award is $1,000 for travel, which may be used for transportation, food, lodging, and/or other expenses related to attending the conference. In addition to the monetary award, the grant provides a waived conference registration fee (study tour excluded).
The SESAH Publication Awards honor outstanding scholarship on the architecture of the South, or by authors who reside in the South at the time of publication. Four categories of publication are recognized: Best Book, Best Journal Article, Best Essay in an Edited Volume, and Best Guidebook for Architecture in the Southeast.
Criteria for consideration include the publication’s contribution to scholarship, as measured by the potential impact on the field through the author(s) methodological approach and analysis; breadth of research and resources; and quality of production, particularly in the illustrations and photographs selected. All entries should be well-written, and each should be an original and thorough piece of scholarship. The copyright for entries should be no earlier than 2021.
The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2023, find more information here. Winners will be contacted via email and then officially recognized at the 2023 SESAH Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, from September 27-30. Find information about past winners here.
Graduate Student Research Fellowship
The Graduate Student Research Fellowship, established in 2018, assists one graduate student in architectural history or historic preservation in conducting research for their thesis or dissertation each year. The Fellowship awards $1,000 to offset research-related expenses and travel.
Applicants must be members of SESAH and must be enrolled in a graduate program in architectural history or historic preservation or a similar program at a college or university located in the SESAH member states. All applications will be considered, but preference will be given to applicants whose thesis or dissertation topic explores the architectural history of the South and SESAH’s 12 member states.
Recipients must submit a report on the use of the funds within one year of receiving the fellowship. They are also encouraged to present their research and project studies as part of the SESAH conference and to submit the results of their research for publication in Arris. Recipients should also acknowledge the fellowship in their completed thesis or dissertation.
All submissions should be sent via email to the chair of the Graduate Student Research Fellowship Committee: Philip Herrington, James Madison University, herrinpm@jmu.edu
Deadline for applications: April 1, 2023. Find more information here. Fellowship recipients will receive notification of their award by May 4, 2023. Find more information on past fellowship recipients here.
2022-2023 Annual Campaign Update
We are excited to announce that the 2022-2023 SESAH Annual Campaign has raised $1,531. This is 30.6% of our $5,000 goal. We have received donations from Arkansas (2), Georgia (4), Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (2), Texas (3), and Virginia. If you don’t see your state, you can change that. (We’re looking at you Alabama, Florida, and Kentucky.) Your generous donations will enable us to assist students and young professionals in the following ways: waiving or reducing registration fees at the 2023 Conference, awarding travel grants to the 2023 Conference, and awarding student fellowships. Additionally, you can make your donation in the honor of someone close to you. Donations have been made in honor of Gavin Townsend and John Schnorrenberg. All donations, big and small, have a significant impact on the education of young scholars. Make an online donation now by clicking here. You can also mail a check. For more information, send an email to the treasurer.
Arris, the journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, is accepting submissions for articles and field notes to be published in upcoming issues.
Articles generally run from 5,000-7,000 words and are blind peer-reviewed. They should demonstrate a rigorous mastery over the scholarly literature, research methods, field work (if applicable), and available primary sources of the subject. Articles should proceed beyond a descriptive approach to draw new conclusions or present new theoretical paradigms.
Field notes are shorter contributions, approximately 2,500 words in length, and are blind peer-reviewed. These notes discuss significant ongoing field work or other research of interest to SESAH members.
Only original work neither published previously nor under review for publication elsewhere will be considered.
There is no specific deadline for submissions, which are accepted on a rolling basis. If an article or field notes is accepted, but the issue in progress already has a sufficient number of them, it will be published in the next issue.
Phone toll-free in the US and Canada (888) 651-0122
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Digital subscriptions for $50 to Arris’s full catalog are available through ProjectMUSE. Arris is on their Hosted platform, so they will need to get a single title subscription through ProjectMUSE.
For both print and digital subscriptions for $60/year, reach out to Duke University Press at the contact info above.
Member News
The Courier, a publication of the Tennessee Historical Commission
The winter issue of The Courier, a publication of the Tennessee Historical Commission, has articles on the restoration of the state-owned Chester Inn in Jonesborough, conservation of a historic cemetery, National Register of Historic Places listings, and more. Find more information here.
Shaw Homestead Opening
The Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain will open the Shaw Homestead in Pearl River County, Mississippi to visitors on Saturday April 22, 2023 from 10 am – 2 pm. This free event gives visitors the opportunity to study a well intact late 19th century log dog-trot house and attendant outbuildings. For more information on the open house please visit https://ltmcp.org/
The recent National Register nomination of the Shaw Homestead can be viewed here.
News from Mississippi
At the 2023 Mississippi Historical Society Annual Meeting, SESAH Preservation Officer Jeff Rosenberg moderated a panel for the paper session “Environmental History in Mississippi.”
Jean Welz: the Assassination Continued NEW RESEARCH UNCOVERED!The Assassination of Jean Welz, Part 2Zoom Panel PresentationSunday, March 5th, 1:00 PM PSTWelcome back author Peter Wyeth to the SAH/SCC Zoom platform as he shares new research he discovered after his last presentation in 2022.Have a conflict for Sunday? But a ticket and we will send you a link to the recorded program you can watch at your leisure…Read more…Purchase $5 ticket!Photo: Maison Ziveli, courtesy of Peter Wyeth..Read moreConnect with u SAHSCCBox 491952
NCCSAH Spring 2023 Maybeck Event
Date: February 20, 2023 at 2:44:00 PM PST>
We have a great NCCSAH event focusing on the architect Bernard Maybeck planned for Spring, 2023 (attached is a short description of the June 8, 2023 (Thursday) event). More details about this event will be included in the NCCSAH Spring, 2023 Newsletter.
Fall 2023 NCCSAH Tour
We are in the process of planning an incredible Fall, 2023 tour (October 17, 18 and 19) of San Diego that will include tours of Little Italy, the Gaslamp Quarter, Pedco Park, Balboa Park, the Central Campus of the University of California, San Diego, Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute, the La Jolla Cultural District (includes Irving Gill’s La Jolla Women’s Club and the Museum of Contemporary Art), the Old Town State Park and the Presidio Park.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY CHAPTERof the Society of Architectural HistoriansChapter News | FEBRUARY 2023
Image above is courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees of Harvard University, wishing you a beautiful spring
Happy Winter/ Spring: We hope this finds each of you well and staying warm and dry.
As always, please send announcements, inquiries, and any other materials you want included in our newsletter- you can send to wayt01@doaks.org.
If you are in DC, come visit at Dumbarton Oaks. More soon and I hope to see you in Montreal in April.
Best, Thaisa et al… Director | Garden & Landscape Studies | Dumbarton Oaks | Trustees for Harvard University Announcements: CALL FOR PAPERS TREE STORIES: TREES & THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF PLACE Co-organised by Christina Hourigan (Royal Holloway) and Caroline Cornish (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London August 29 to September 1 2023. Abstract due March 23, 2023
‘Trees, woods and forests appear on the surface to be stable and unchanging features against which we can match our individual lives and the lives of nations and civilisations. But the history of trees is constantly being rewritten and the future of trees is uncertain.’This session seeks to showcase the wealth of geo-historical research around trees and their stories, and how trees have shaped and continue to shape place by their biological presence, their agency, and diverse human understandings of their values. Trees, woods, and forests are the subject of an expanding field of interdisciplinary research seeking to understand the relationships between people and the natural world from historical, cultural and geographical perspectives. …Stories of arboreal agency occur across cultures, collections, and climates; they are evident in imperial histories, and in the histories of science and exploration. The botanical networks created for the trade in live trees and in timber, and for the study of tree species during the period of empire extended globally but European/Western understandings have frequently existed in conflict with Indigenous cosmologies. And besides trade, Western understandings of trees as environmental assets are evident in accounts of afforestation, deforestation, and urban tree-scaping dating from the eighteenth century. This interdisciplinary session will juxtapose a range of approaches to tree histories, placing emphasis on the various methodologies employed to evaluate the contribution of trees to the making and unmaking of place, their cultural significance(s), and how their lives have become entangled in our own across time and space. If you are interested in presenting a paper at this session please send a 250-word abstract (with name, affiliation, and contact details) to Christina Hourigan (Christina.Hourigan.2020@live.rhul.ac.uk) and Caroline Cornish (C.Cornish@kew.org) by Friday, 17 March 2023. We will inform applicants of selected papers by Friday, 23 March 2023.
“Communicating Architecture. From the origins of modernity to the digital age”. https://www.granadacongresos.com/callforpapers Deadline March 24th, 2023.The Architectural History Department at Universidad de Granada (Spain) announces the call for contributions of the IV International Conference Cultura y Ciudad, which will take place in Granada from January 24 to 26, 2024. The theme for this edition is: “Communicating Architecture. From the origins of modernity to the digital age”. Contributions are welcome from researchers affiliated to universities, research institutions, and independent researchers. At this stage, proponents are invited to send abstracts directly related to one of the four thematic blocks, written either in Spanish or English, with a maximum length of 500 words. All abstracts will be subjected to peer review. Authors of selected submissions will be contacted by the organizing committee and invited to submit a full conference paper. Full papers will be presented in person during the conference and included in the Proceedings volume. All registered participants will receive a printed copy of the Proceedings at the registration desk. 137th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association San Francisco, California January 4–7, 2024 The deadline to submit a proposal for the AHA24 program is extended to March 6. The AHA’s annual meeting is the largest yearly gathering of historians in the United States. All historians are welcome and encouraged to submit proposals for annual meeting sessions. The AHA also invites historically focused proposals from colleagues in related disciplines and from AHA affiliated societies. The Program Committee will consider all proposals that advance the study, teaching, and public presentation of history.The Association seeks submissions on the histories of all places, periods, people, and topics; on the uses of diverse sources and methods, including digital history; and on theory and the uses of history itself in a wide variety of venues. We invite proposals for sessions in a variety of formats and encourage lively interaction among presenters and with the audience. Please consult the Annual Meeting Guidelines and our Submission FAQs before submitting a proposal. CALL FOR PROPOSALSRace in Design History: An Anthology edited by Kristina Wilson, Professor of Art History, Clark University and Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Curator of Architecture and Design, National Museum of African American History and CultureHow has race shaped the objects of our designed world? We invite contributors to submit to an edited volume that will focus on the ways design and design histories have engaged ideas about race, whether implicitly or explicitly. Race is a contested category with shifting meanings over time, and perceptions about race influence design history in multiple ways: how objects are designed; how designers imagine their ideal consumer; how designs are put into production and how those designs are marketed. Ultimately, race has an impact on the scope and structure of the residual design archive that historians are left sifting through. This edited volume welcomes contributions in the form of close readings of design objects as well as critical interrogations about design through the lenses of practice, pedagogy, curation, and historiography.Recent work in design history has emphasized the importance of decolonizing the predominantly Western and Northern biases of the modernist canon. This anthology aims to contribute to that work, and embraces the goals of critical race studies of design, with an investigation of the role of race in all aspects of design history. It welcomes scholarship that looks at under-valued objects of design, scholarship that expands our understanding of what it means to have a career as a designer, and scholarship that illuminates design history in new contexts. We seek narratives of design history that interrogate our assumptions about what is knowable in the past.We invite contributions on decorative objects, interiors, fashion, architecture, and graphic design, among others, 1800 to the present, global in scope. For further details click here. To submit a proposal, send a 300-word proposal to KrWilson@clarku.edu and WilkinsonM@si.edu with “Race in Design History” in the subject line by the deadline of March 15, 2023. Contributors will be notified by mid-April, and drafts will be due September 15, 2023.2023 HALS Challenge: Working Landscapes For the 14th annual HALS Challenge competition, the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) invites you to document Working Landscapes. Historic “working” or “productive” landscapes may be agricultural or industrial and unique or traditional. Some topical working landscapes convey water for irrigation or provide flood control. Please focus your HALS report on the landscape as a whole and not on a building or structure alone. For this theme, the HAER History Guidelines may be helpful along with HALS History Guidelines. Deadline to submit short format histories: July 31, 2023 Awards presented: October 27-30, 2023, during the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture in Minneapolis
SYMPOSIAASEH Annual Conference, March 22-26, 2023 Hilton Boston Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts Register for ASEH 2023Environmental Histories of the Black Atlantic World: Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium in partnership with the Mellon Initiative in Democracy and Landscape Studies, Washington, DC May 12 & 13, 2023. Registration will open in March 2023. Symposiarchs: N. D. B. Connolly (Johns Hopkins University) and Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) For the last decades, scholars have interrogated the flow of goods, people, ideas, and forms of non-human life that constitute what we call the Atlantic World. Key to the field is the study of the “Black Atlantic,” an understanding of cultural and political connectedness that foregrounds the experiences of African-descended peoples, decenters Europe, and locates in place and time the multiplicity of Black cultures. Dumbarton Oaks recognizes the richness of the Black Atlantic as an idea and a place. Through a symposium on the landscape histories of the African diaspora, we aim to convene scholars, curators, and other cultural custodians conversant in Black Atlantic histories and committed to reshaping entire fields of study and practice from the Black experience outward.
Jobs and Opportunities
Cultural Heritage in the Forest Paid Summer Internship for HBCU Students 21 Feb – 02 Mar, 2023 https://www.achp.gov/CHIF
The U.S. Forest Service (FS) and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) invite Historically Black College & University students interested in historic preservation or history-related fields to apply to the 2023 Cultural Heritage in the Forest (CHIF) summer program. Please share this opportunity with students and student groups at your HBCU. CHIF is a paid, four-week educational internship introducing students to the work done by the U.S. Forest Service Heritage program, to prepare them for future careers in cultural resources management and at the Forest Service. Participants will explore the work of historic preservation and the efforts of the two agencies to protect, restore, and interpret hundreds of thousands of historic sites. Participants also will connect with communities, stakeholders, professionals, and Indian tribes to learn about and engage in the stewardship of historic sites and public lands. If you are interested in pursuing careers in public lands, historic preservation, skilled preservation trades, history, archaeology, or anthropology, please register for one of two Zoom sessions to learn more and ask questions.
NOTE: IF YOU HAVE NOT YET VOTED TO APPROVE OR REJECT THE NOMNINATIONS FOR OFFICERS, PLEASE DO SO BY MARCH 1 by clicking here.
OFFICERS
President Kathleen John-Alder Rutgers University
Vice President John Davis Knowlton School, The Ohio State University
Secretary Royce Earnest University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Newsletter Editor Thaisa Way Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Colleciton
Advisory Board Finola O’Kane Crimmins University College Dublin (2019-2022)
Georges Farhat University of Toronto (2019-2022)
Mohammad Gharipour University of Maryland (2021-2024)
Margot Lystra Independent Scholar (2021-2024)
Stephen Whiteman The Courtauld Institute of Art (2021-2024)
Jan Woudstra The University of Sheffield (2021-2024)
Recent Books of Interest
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Allaback, Sarah. 2021. Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Landscape Architect For The Motor Age. S.L.]: Library Of Amer Landscape.
Dudley, Tara A. 2021. Building Antebellum New Orleans : Free People of Color and Their Influence. First edition. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Duempelmann, Sonja, ed/ 2022. Landscapes for Sport : Histories of Physical Exercise, Sport, and Health. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Ferrari, Carlyn Ena,. 2022. Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden : Anne Spencer’s Ecopoetics. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Gharipour, Mohammad. 2021. Health and Architecture : the History of Spaces of Healing and Care in the Pre-Modern Era. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Olin, Laurie. 2020. France Sketchbooks. First edition. San Francisco]: ORO Editions
Tchikine, Anatole, Francesco Ignazio Lazzari, Taylor Ellis Johnson, and Pierre de la Ruffinière Du Prey. 2021. Francesco Ignazio Lazzari’s Discrizione Della Villa Pliniana : Visions of Antiquity in the Landscape of Umbria. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Way, Thaisa. ed. 2022. Garden as Art: Beatrix Farrand at Dumbarton Oaks.Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Whiteman, Stephen H. 2020. Where Dragon Veins Meet : the Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe. Seattle [Washington]: University of Washington Press.
Subject:From Chicago Chapter of SAH: Free event from Unity Temple Restoration Foundation>
Unity Temple Restoration Foundation is hosting the second lecture in their Break::the::Box series.
Steven Hubbard, Associate Principal, Solomon Cordwell Buenz, and Senior Designer on the Tribune Tower Residences will present “Chicago Tribune Tower – Chicago’s Crown Jewel”.
Thursday, February 23 at 7pm.
https://www.utrf.org/event/tribune-tower/
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Upcoming Events & Student Symposium Deadline ExtendedHi Amanda,Reminder: 2023 Directors’ Night / Annual MeetingMonday, February 27th at 7:00 pmPresented via Zoom; Pre-registration requiredA brief business meeting will precede the presentation of papers.Our upcoming Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night will feature presentations by past and present NESAH board directors. Please see the event page for more details and to register!Student Symposium Deadline ExtendedThe deadline to submit an abstract for the 2023 NESAH Student Symposium has been extended to February 20, 2023. Please see the Call for Papers on our website for more information.All the best,The NESAH BoardCall for Papers: HECAA@30 ConferenceThe Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for “HECAA@30: Environments, Materials, and Futures in the Eighteenth Century” is now available. Please visit the conference website: https://sites.google.com/umb.edu/hecaa30 for a list of open sessions and details. Applications for participation are due to session chairs by April 1, 2023.This in-person conference will take place in Boston, Cambridge, and Providence from October 12-14, 2023, with morning plenary sessions followed by gallery sessions, tours, and architectural site visits each afternoon. From HECAA:”On the land of the Massachusett and neighboring Wampanoag and Nipmuc peoples, Boston developed in the eighteenth century as a major colonized and colonizing site. Its status today as a cultural and intellectual hub is shaped by that context, making it a critical location to trace the cultural legacies of racism and social injustice between the eighteenth century and today. For whom is “eighteenth-century art and architecture” a useful category? What eighteenth-century materials, spaces, and images offer tools or concepts for shaping our collective futures? In considering these questions, we aim to expand HECAA’s traditional focus on Western European art and architecture and specifically encourage proposals from scholars working on Asia, Africa and the African diaspora, Indigenous cultures, and the Islamic world.We welcome proposals for contributions to panels, gallery sessions, roundtables, and workshops. Scholars at any career stage, and all geographic and material specializations, are encouraged to apply. We look forward to seeing you in Boston!”
FREE Recorded Presentation on the California Capitol Preservation Fight
FREE PROGRAM!The California Capitol:The Current Preservation Battle You Don’t Know About, But Should…Dick Cowan, Paula Pepper and former State Historic Preservation Officer Wayne Donaldson, share the fight for the California Capitol.SAH/SCC has made this important program FREE for all viewers. Watch, then share with other who care about preserving historic resources…Watch Now!Photo: Courtesy of Chris Lukather.Read moreConnect with u
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PAST PHILA CHAPTER SAH PROGRAM VIDEOS NOW ONLINE
Visit the Phila Chapter webpage for a selection of our past Zoom programs at https://philachaptersah.org/index.php/videos/ *************************************************** West Chester University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology presents BEYOND THE BELL: PHILADELPHIA’S GLOBAL HERITAGE in the Old Library Building, 775 S Church Street, West Chester, PA 19383 Hours are Mondays, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.; Tuesdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; and Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Private appointments and special student-curator led tours can also be organized by calling (610) 436-2247 or emailing museum@wcupa.edu.
In partnership with the Global Philadelphia Association, this special exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention by exploring the rich heritage of Philadelphia. Philadelphia’s Independence Hall and its famed Liberty Bell was one of the U.S.’ first World Heritage sites, deemed to be of universal human value for its importance in the creation of the world’s first Enlightenment-era Republic. However, the exhibition delves beyond this colonial narrative to show that Philadelphia’s global heritage is the result of continuous interactions of diverse communities over time.
With rare artifacts on loan from the National Parks Service, Lest We Forget Museum, Landis Valley Museum, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, among others; and original works by numerous Philadelphia-based artists such as Diane Keller, Ana Vizcarra Rankin, Salome Cosmique and Sue Chen, Beyond the Bell’s exhibits on labor, immigration, transportation, fashion and arts, festivals, sports and pop culture reveal the richness and global importance of the “City of Brotherly and Sisterly Love.”
Also on view is Earth Day at 50: Lessons for a Sustainable Future.
The museum is housed in the Old Library Building. Enter through the main front door on Church Street. Please note that there are stairs you will need to walk up to get to the building; unfortunately it’s a historic building (on the National Historic Register) and stairs are the only way to get into the building.
There is ample metered street parking in front of the building on Church Street. Note: this is a one-way street that leads to Rosedale Avenue. Parking meter payment is required on all days except Sundays through a municipal kiosk, which accepts credit cards. Free parking is available in Lot K located behind the Sykes Student Union, off Rosedale Avenue. On weekends you may park without a permit in any student-designated space.
If you are not able to join us for the tour, the entire exhibit is online. Use this link to enter the Interactive virtual exhibition https://www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mathematics/anthropologySociology/museum/beyondTheBell.aspx *************************************************** Flagler Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida presents THE ARCHITECTURE OF HORACE TRUMBAUER: “THE STANDARD, METROPOLITAN AND AUTHORITATIVE THING” Lecture by David B. Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania Sunday, February 12, 3 PM Register/view online at https://flaglermuseum.us/programs/lecture-series
Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) was in many ways the most enigmatic architect of America’s “Gilded Age.” Although he left school when he was 16, by the time he was thirty he had built palatial homes for some of the nation’s wealthiest families, and his office would produce more than 800 designs over the next forty years. In addition to great houses, this included important public buildings such as the Widener Library at Harvard, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the two campuses of Duke University. Trumbauer’s list of clients included many who wintered in Palm Beach, among them the Phippses, Stotesburys, and Wideners. And in 1925 he was commissioned to design the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
Like many successful architects of his day, Trumbauer worked in many styles: Tudor, Italian Renaissance, Palladian, English baroque, Georgian, and French neoclassical. His versatility and quiet competence led the author of a long, admiring review in Architectural Record in 1904 to call his work “the standard, metropolitan and authoritative thing.” But Trumbauer never discussed his work or explained his thinking, and his design methods and the precise authorship of the buildings created in his thirty-person office has been difficult to discover.
Recent research has begun to cast light on Trumbauer’s artistry and the complex collaborations that he orchestrated. Among the important aspects of this teamwork was the key role played by Julian Abele (1881–1950) the first African-American graduate of the architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania and the chief designer in Trumbauer’s office. Abele’s artistry was a vital ingredient in some of the firm’s most significant buildings, and despite racial prejudice and Jim Crow restrictions, his role was clearly visible and appreciated by many clients and fellow architects. **************************************************** Enjoy! Mary Anne
NESAH 2023 Directors’ Night / Annual MeetingWhen: 27 Feb 2023 7:00 PM, EST Where: ZoomEVENT DETAILS:2023 Directors’ Night / Annual MeetingMonday, February 27 7:00pmA brief business meeting will precede the presentation of papers. Presented via Zoom; Pre-registration required.Dennis DeWitt Brookline’s Mount Vernon Portico HousesThree tall columned houses in Brookline’s Green Hill neighborhood, dating from 1794 to 1806, have been identified with the label “Jamaica Planter.” Two are associated with well known later occupants — architect Henry Hobson Richardson and Boston Grand Dame, Isabella Stewart Gardner. Exploring the genesis of “Jamaica Planter” revealed only a casually generated term that offered a convenient explanation for some unusual houses. However, it did not comport with the first of these houses, Senator George Cabot’s “Old Green Hill.” Its inspiration may have been George Washington’s Mount Vernon portico.Dennis De Witt holds Masters degrees in architecture from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Past-President of S.A.H./New England, a former Vice-Chair of the Brookline Preservation Commission, a Director and Past-President of Boston’s Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, and a Commissioner of the Massachusetts Historical Commission. He has been involved with historic preservation for over 50 years. His book-length publications include Modern Architecture in Europe: A Guide to Buildings Since the Industrial Revolution and various studies related to Boston’s 19th century water system, its architects and technology.Diana Martinez The Olmsteds and the Imperial ProspectIn March of 1901 the U.S. Secretary of War wrote to the Olmsted firm requesting advice on improvements to Manila. Though Olmsted Jr. declined the job, he deeply influenced Daniel Burnham’s eventual plans. This paper will consider the legibility of U.S. Empire insofar as it is expressed in Olmsted’s work and influence. Diana Martinez is an assistant professor of architectural history and the director of architectural studies at Tufts University. She is completing a book manuscript, Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Infrastructure, Urbanism and the American Colonial Project in the Philippines.Robert Cowherd Doing History in the AnthropoceneTeaching history to undergraduates as they inherit the multiple intertwined crises of the 21st century compels a critical reexamination of what we teach and how. Facing a torrent of information, how do they construct a dependable foundation for collective action? The challenge is to replace conventional teaching and learning mindsets to mobilize a more confident generation of history practitioners. Instead of studying history, college students can get a jump on a lifetime of doing history.Robert Cowherd, PhD, is a Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. His research and publications focus on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in Southeast Asia and Latin America. He is the author most recently of “Batavian Apartheid: Mapping Bodies, Constructing Identities” in Southeast of Now and “Decolonizing Bamboo” in Dialectic IX. He is former President of the New England Society of Architectural Historians.
LAST CHANCE!Authors on Architecture: Alfred PreisZoom Panel PresentationSunday, February 5th, 1:00 PM PSTDon’t miss this special opportunity to learn about the work of this emigre Modern architect!.Have a conflict for Sunday? But a ticket and we will send you a link to the recorded program you can watch at your leisure…Read more…Purchase $5 ticket!
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NEW RESEARCH UNCOVERED!The Assassination of Jean Welz, Part 2Zoom Panel PresentationSunday, March 5th, 1:00 PM PSTWelcome back author Peter Wyeth to the SAH/SCC Zoom platform as he shares new research he discovered after his last presentation in 2022.Have a conflict for Sunday? But a ticket and we will send you a link to the recorded program you can watch at your leisure…Read more…Purchase $5 ticket!Photo: Maison Ziveli, courtesy of Peter Wyeth..Read moreConnect with u SAHSCCBox 491952
Upcoming Events & Student Symposium Deadline ExtendedHi Amanda,Reminder: 2023 Directors’ Night / Annual MeetingMonday, February 27th at 7:00 pmPresented via Zoom; Pre-registration requiredA brief business meeting will precede the presentation of papers.Our upcoming Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night will feature presentations by past and present NESAH board directors. Please see the event page for more details and to register!Student Symposium Deadline ExtendedThe deadline to submit an abstract for the 2023 NESAH Student Symposium has been extended to February 20, 2023. Please see the Call for Papers on our website for more information.All the best,The NESAH Board
Call for Papers: HECAA@30 ConferenceThe Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for “HECAA@30: Environments, Materials, and Futures in the Eighteenth Century” is now available. Please visit the conference website: https://sites.google.com/umb.edu/hecaa30 for a list of open sessions and details. Applications for participation are due to session chairs by April 1, 2023.This in-person conference will take place in Boston, Cambridge, and Providence from October 12-14, 2023, with morning plenary sessions followed by gallery sessions, tours, and architectural site visits each afternoon. From HECAA:”On the land of the Massachusett and neighboring Wampanoag and Nipmuc peoples, Boston developed in the eighteenth century as a major colonized and colonizing site. Its status today as a cultural and intellectual hub is shaped by that context, making it a critical location to trace the cultural legacies of racism and social injustice between the eighteenth century and today. For whom is “eighteenth-century art and architecture” a useful category? What eighteenth-century materials, spaces, and images offer tools or concepts for shaping our collective futures? In considering these questions, we aim to expand HECAA’s traditional focus on Western European art and architecture and specifically encourage proposals from scholars working on Asia, Africa and the African diaspora, Indigenous cultures, and the Islamic world.We welcome proposals for contributions to panels, gallery sessions, roundtables, and workshops. Scholars at any career stage, and all geographic and material specializations, are encouraged to apply. We look forward to seeing you in Boston!”
FREE PROGRAM!The California Capitol:The Current Preservation Battle You Don’t Know About, But Should…Dick Cowan, Paula Pepper and former State Historic Preservation Officer Wayne Donaldson, share the fight for the California Capitol.SAH/SCC has made this important program FREE for all viewers. Watch, then share with other who care about preserving historic resources…Watch Now!Photo: Courtesy of Chris Lukather.Read moreConnect with u
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LAST CHANCE!Authors on Architecture: Alfred PreisZoom Panel PresentationSunday, February 5th, 1:00 PM PSTDon’t miss this special opportunity to learn about the work of this emigre Modern architect!.Have a conflict for Sunday? But a ticket and we will send you a link to the recorded program you can watch at your leisure…Read more…Purchase $5 ticket!