Below are the SAH regional chapter news updates received by the liaison during the month of March 2022.
-Amanda Roth Clark
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 7:00 – 8:00 pm On Zoom
We, the House: a Novel by Warren Ashworth and his wife Susan Kander. Co-sponsored by Glessner House and CCSAH. In 1833 Chicago, balloon framing was an invention whose timehad come. This book will explore the roots of this innovation and discuss how, by 1850, it had rapidly become the primary method of construction from Illinois westward, without which the history of this country would be much different.” Ashworth will weave in the story of one such house, “Ambleside”,built by his great grandfather on the Kansas prairie in 1878. Warren Ashworth is an architect, architectural historian, professor, and carpenter who has built both timber-framed and stick-framed structures. Susan Kander is acomposer and librettist whose latest opera, “dwb” (Driving while Black) premiered in 2020 in New York. https://www.glessnerhouse.org/programs/2022/04/05/if-this-house-could-talk Codes:Chicago Chapter, SAH, use code CCSAHCliff Dwellers, use code CLIFF Event cost is $12.00 per person / $10.00for members of CCSAH, Cliff Dwellers or Glessner House
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THIS SUNDAY!An Unlikely Modernism:Bakersfield BuiltSunday, March 27th, 1:00 PM PSTBakersfield? Learn the story behind why there is a significant body of good modern architecture in the Kern County hamlet. Can’t make it? Purchase a ticket and we will send you a recording to watch at your leisure!Buy a ticket now…
The Charnley-Persky House, headquarters of national SAH, is recruiting new volunteers to lead tours of this wonderful building at 1365 North Astor Street. Built in 1892, it is one of the few surviving residential works of Louis Sullivan, with input from Frank Lloyd Wright. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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2022 Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night One week from Today! The 2022 Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night will feature two presentations. Pre-registration for this Zoom event is required to attend! Please register here by Friday 3/25. A brief business meeting will precede the lectures. 43rd Annual Student Symposium — 4/9Please join us for our 43rd Annual Student Symposium! Saturday, April 9, 2022.9:00am – 3:00pm 3 Sessions:Occupation and OrientalismAfterworldsRace and GenderPresented via Zoom. Free.Pre-registration required at the following link:https://forms.gle/qprPioUY4VGHwY8H8
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Iowa Architectural Foundation to lead tour of Sullivan buildings in Cedar Rapids
The Iowa Architectural Foundation (IAF) will lead an in-person tour April 2 of two historic buildings in Cedar Rapids designed by famed Chicago architect Louis Sullivan. Local historian Mark Stoffer Hunter will guide guests through St. Paul’s United Methodist Church and The Peoples Savings Bank, now home to Popoli Ristorante and Sullivan’s Bar.The tour will run from 2 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. April 2.Early bird tickets are available on Eventbrite until March 18 for $15. After that, regular price tickets are $20.The tours launch at the new Third Avenue entrance of St. Paul’s Church. Built in 1914, the church and neighboring house, where Sullivan resided while designing the building, offer a window into Sullivan’s life late in his career. Mr. Stoffer Hunter will lead a tour of the outside, into the remodeled narthex and through the sanctuary.Following the church tour, attendees will make their way to the Third Avenue entrance of The Peoples Savings Bank. Built in 1911, the bank is known as the second of a number of small “jewel box” banks in the Midwest designed by Mr. Sullivan. Guests will be invited through the historic atrium, inside the vault, and to visit the basement, a space rarely open to the public.
Below are the SAH regional chapter news updates received by the liaison during the month of February 2022.
-Amanda Roth Clark
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To Members of the Chicago Chapter of Society of Architectural Historians, We are presenting, with Glessner House and the Cliff Dwellers, a lecture by Warren Ashworth, author of We, the House. In 1833 Chicago, balloon framing was an invention whose time had come. Warren Ashworth, co-author of We, the House, will explore the roots of this innovation and discuss how, by 1850, it had rapidly become the primary method of construction from Illinois westward, without which the history of this country would be much different. Ashworth will also weave in the story of one such house, Ambleside, built by his great-grandfather on the Kansas prairie in 1878. That house is the protagonist of the historical novel We, the House. If time permits, the authors will do a brief dramatic reading. The authors of the book are Warren Ashworth and his wife, Susan Kander. Ashworth is an architect, an architectural historian and professor, and a carpenter who has built both timber-framed and stick-framed structures. He has designed, over the years, five restaurants in Chicago. Kander is a composer and librettist whose latest opera, dwb (driving while black), premiered in 2020. We, the House is their first novel. Both live in New York City. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Chapter SAH and the Cliff Dwellers. The program will be recorded, and all attendees will receive a link afterwards which will remain active for seven days. Here is the link to register. https://www.glessnerhouse.org/programs/2022/04/05/if-this-house-could-talk
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NEW EVENT!Authors on Architecture:Oest on Los Angeles Public Housing Sunday, February 13th, 1:00 PM PSTNicole Krup Oest introduces her fascinating book, Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles. Can’t join in real time? Buy a ticket and receive a link to the recorded program…Buy a ticket now… .Read more
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Dear SAH-NYC,
Please find attached here our February 2022 calendar of New York area events. Most of the events listed in the SAH-NY calendar are not sponsored by our chapter, so please verify details using the contact information. You should reserve, if necessary, through the contacts listed in the calendar. To have an event listed on a future calendar, please email: jon.ritter@nyu.edu
Best regards, from, —Jon Ritter
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NEW EVENT!Authors on Architecture:Oest on Los Angeles Public Housing Sunday, February 13th, 1:00 PM PSTNicole Krup Oest introduces her fascinating book, Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles. Can’t join in real time? Buy a ticket and receive a link to the recorded program…Buy a ticket now…
View this email in your browser Call for Editors of Arris, the Journal of SESAH deadline extended until March 1SESAH (Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians) seeks an Editor or Co-editors, and a Book Review Editor for three issues (2023-25) of its peer-reviewed journal, Arris. Scholars and researchers are invited to respond to this call by March 1, 2022. Editorial positions are unpaid and would begin with work on volume 34 (2023) during the summer of 2022 and end with the completion of volume 36 (2025). One of these issues may be based on a theme, chosen by the Editors and approved by the Arris Editorial Committee, that addresses particular theories, methodologies, or perspectives in the history and/or preservation of the built environment.
Founded in 1989, Arris publishes original scholarship on all aspects of the history and preservation of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. It has a particular interest in new perspectives on the American South; at the same time articles are not limited geographically or temporally. The journal consists of research articles, field notes, and book reviews. Since 2019, Arris has been published in partnership with the University of North Carolina Press (UNC Press).
Issues of Arris are typically produced by a single Editor or two Co-editors who are responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and editing manuscripts, and a Book Review Editor who selects books for review and reviewers. The Editors work in collaboration to establish the content for each issue, which goes to UNC Press for production and publication. Other matters that arise in creating the journal—e.g. administrative and financial—are addressed by the Arris Editorial Committee (which includes the Editors). Communication among the Editors, UNC Press, and the Committee occurs regularly in order to facilitate the process of creating the journal. The Editor (or, in the case of Co-editors, one of the Co-editors) sits on SESAH’s Board of Directors as an ex officio voting member.
Editors must maintain SESAH membership. They may reside outside its twelve-state territory. They may be academic or independent scholars, researchers, preservationists, or curators, and may be early in their professional careers as long as they have publication experience. Editors may not simultaneously hold an editorship position for another journal.
Applicants should send a CV, a Letter of Interest, and names of two references to David Gobel (dgobel@scad.edu), chair of the Arris Editorial Committee, by March 1, 2022. The letter should state the position being applied for (Editor or Co-editors or Book Review Editor). It should include information on publication and/or editorial experience, a brief proposal for a themed issue (optional), and thoughts concerning future directions of Arris. Any questions may be directed to Prof. Gobel. See the website for further information on Arris and SESAH.
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NEW EVENT!Authors on Architecture:Oest on Los Angeles Public Housing Sunday, February 13th, 1:00 PM PSTNicole Krup Oest introduces her fascinating book, Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles. Can’t join in real time? Buy a ticket and receive a link to the recorded program…Buy a ticket now…
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ContactDebbie Chalfie Art Deco Society of Washington 703-568-3745jlinz@adsw.org
Streamliner: How Raymond Loewy Streamlined His Persona and American Industrial Design
Raymond Loewy was one of America’s greatest industrial designers, enjoying a career that spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s. He started his design career in America as an illustrator for magazines, soon establishing himself as one of the premier Art Deco artists working in New York. Within a few years, Loewy felt a desire to branch out into designing products and began his industrial design career with a Deco makeover of a duplicating machine. John Wall, author of “Streamliner,” a Loewy biography, will take us through Loewy’s early Art Deco designs and trace the influence of that movement into later designs such as locomotives and a ferry for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Sears Coldspot refrigerators. Wall’s program will also introduce the audience to Loewy’s groundbreaking work with Studebaker and International Harvester, and his corporate logos and other work.About the PresenterJohn Wall is the author of Streamliner: Raymond Loewy and Imagemaking in the Age of American Industrial Design, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2018 and due out this year in paperback. Wall started his career as a journalist, and more recently worked for over two decades as a media relations professional at Penn State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and at Juniata College. As a journalist, he reported on advertising and design, sparking an interest in Loewy’s work, which eventually resulted in authoring Streamliner. Wall is currently retired in Altoona, Pa., where he lives with his wife, Sharon. $11/ADSW Member, $16/Non-MemberMonday, February 21, 20226:30 PM EDT Register Now!
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Paris 1925: French Illustrated Books Go to the Deco Fair We are pleased to announce CADS’s upcoming Zoom event. On Wednesday, February 16th, Professor Neil Harris will be giving an illustrated presentation on Paris 1925: French Illustrated Books Go to the Deco Fair.Professor Harris is well known to CADS members, having done several previous presentations. Among his scholarly work, he has authored one of the major introductory essays for Chicago Art Deco Society’s widely acclaimed book, Art Deco Chicago, Designing Modern America.It’s particularly fulfilling when a topic of interest to CADS members is also of special interest to another cultural organization. We are pleased to co-sponsor this event with the Caxton Club, Chicago’s leading bibliophile organization. Additional information about Paris 1925: French Illustrated Books Go to the Deco Fair along with images and registration information is available on the attached event flyer. The event is free however, preregistration is required. Links to the registration page are included in the flyer. In the registration form, fill in “CADS” in the space labeled “Organization”. We are grateful to the Caxton Club for coordinating registration for both organizations. Joe Loundy & Kevin PalmerCo-Presidents
FOUR Exciting Updates!1) Call for New Board Members!Do you have ideas for tours, speakers, and advocacy for the New England chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NESAH)? Do you want to help shape the future direction of the organization? NESAH is looking for new members for its board, and hereby issues a call for nominations and self-nominations. Potential board members should be engaged in scholarship, practice, or preservation related to the built environment, and should be motivated, dynamic, and looking to contribute to the future of our regional chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. NESAH is a coalition of practitioners, scholars, and enthusiasts from across New England that promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes, and cultural heritage for the benefit of all. Our goal is a deeper understanding and appreciation of our architectural heritage. For more information about our organization, please visit our website. To express your interest, or to nominate someone else, please send an email outlining the qualifications of the nominee, by Friday, March 11, 2022, to: nesah.president@gmail.com 2) 2022 NESAH Fellowships — DUE SOON!The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians invites applications for the Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship and the John Coolidge Research Fellowship. More information about each, and application details, can be found on our website. Rettig Fellowship applications are due THIS FRIDAY, February 18.Coolidge Fellowhip applications are due on March 18. Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship
The Rettig Fellowship provides financial assistance for graduate students and emerging professionals attending the Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). The fellowship include support of up to $500, plus a registration fee waiver. This year’s annual meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27-May1, 2022. The Rettig Fellowship honors Robert B. Rettig, the founding president of the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and an advocate for student travel to the national SAH annual meeting. From 1964 to 1971, Robert Rettig worked for the Cambridge Historical Commission, where he served as co-author and/or editor of the first three volumes of the Commission’s Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge and as author of Guide to Cambridge Architecture: Ten Walking Tours (MIT Press, 1969). From his work in Cambridge, Rettig went on to leadership positions at the Boston Landmarks Commission, the Massachusetts Historical Commission, and the National Register of Historic Places. He is an SAH Fellow and a benefactor of national SAH. John Coolidge Research Fellowship Supported by the chapter’s John Coolidge Educational Fund, the John Coolidge Research Fellowship assists graduate students at a New England college or university working on topics in architectural history, the built environment, or a related field through an award of $1,000 to support their research. The John Coolidge Research Fellowship was established following the death of Dr. John Coolidge (1913-1995), a founding member of the Society of Architectural Historians and an early member of the New England Chapter of the SAH. Professor Coolidge taught at Harvard from 1947-1984 and served as director of the Fogg Museum from 1948-1968. His book, Mill and Mansion: A Study of Architecture and Society in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1820-1865 (Columbia University Press), was among the first scholarly studies of American industrial architecture. 3) LECTURE: Sarah Horowitz, 2/28Monday, February 28, 20227:00pm “A Purposeful Monument”:Designing the Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, 1966-69 Sarah Horowitz2021 John Coolidge Fellowship Recipient Presented via ZoomFree! Pre-registration is required to attend. Please register here. The building of performing arts centers in America from the mid-1950s until the early 1970s represents a significant architectural movement to rejuvenate major cities that had fallen stagnant after World War II. The Milwaukee Center for the Performing Arts, designed by architect Harry Weese and constructed between 1966 and 1969, is one example of how the building of a performing arts center became a means by which regional leaders, architects, and engineers sought to reconcile disparate economic, social, and civic priorities through design. Considering the origins of this performing arts center project, its design program, and its effects on Milwaukee and its communities, this talk explores how the architecture of the Milwaukee Center for the Performing Arts reflects larger ambitions of urban and cultural redevelopment within postwar America. 4) Annual Meeting / Directors’ NightSAVE THE DATE: Monday, March 7, 2022 — 7:00pm Presented via ZoomStay tuned for full program forthcoming!NE/SAH on InstagramFollow us on Instagram, where we regularly showcase beautiful images of our region’s architecture: instagram.com/newengland_sah/
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Chestnut Hill Conservancy presents DISCOVERING CHESTNUT HILL TOUR & LECTURE SERIES
Recasting the Victorian Suburb: Two Young Architects at Work in Germantown and Chestnut Hill in the 1880s Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 7:00 pm Virtual
This illustrated talk by Jeffrey Cohen will illuminate recent research exploring Wilson Eyre’s beginnings with the architect James Peacock Sims. Cohen teaches architectural history at Bryn Mawr College. His previous research has focused on 19th century streetscapes and on architects with significant contributions to Philadelphia’s legacy including Benjamin Latrobe, Frank Furness, and Wilson Eyre, architect of several beloved Chestnut Hill houses including The Anglecot.
Living Among Landmarks: The Olmsted Legacy in Chestnut Hill A Conversation and Exhibit Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 7:00 pm Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Middle School 8000 Cherokee Street
2022 is the bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted—a leading cultural figure of his time and founder of the profession of landscape architecture as we know it and as it is practiced today.
Olmsted’s personal career and the practice that was his legacy flourished for more than one hundred years. He and his successors worked in virtually every state and large city in America. In Philadelphia and surrounding communities the firm secured commissions for nearly two hundred projects. At least forty of these were for clients in Chestnut Hill. Beginning in 1897, this work spanned forty years.
April 26, 2022 is Olmsted’s 200th birthday. As part of the national celebration, Chestnut Hill Conservancy will host an evening symposium, “Living among Landmarks: The Olmsted Legacy in Chestnut Hill,” featuring a conversation among current-day owners of homesteads and gardens designed by his successors in the firm of Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects. Olmsted biographer Witold Rybczynski will introduce the program. Before and after his remarks and the panel discussion, the audience will have access to a pin-up display of photos and plans of all the known projects from the Olmsted Brothers’ decades of involvement in Chestnut Hill.
Please note: this is an in-person event. Attendees will be asked to show proof of vaccination and wear a mask during the event. If the city changes its Covid restrictions, it may be switched to a virtual format.
More info: chconservancy.org/discovering-chestnut-hill *************************************************** SAVE THE DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 11 For the Society of Architectural Historians Phila Chapter and The Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance 2022ARCHITECTURAL QUIZZO Details and registration info coming soon… ***************************************************
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View this email in your browser SESAH Conference 2022 Call For Papers The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) will host its 40th annual conference in Memphis, Tennessee, from November 2-5, 2022. As with all SESAH conferences, papers, and sessions focused on such themes as the Landscapes and Architectural Resources of the Civil Rights Movement, Landscapes/Architecture of Minority Communities, Post-World War II Architecture in the American South, Twentieth Century Urban Planning in the American South, and the Legacy of the Southern Music Industry on the Cultural Landscape. We also expect sessions on subjects related to European, Historic, Medieval, and Southern Architecture.
SESAH is now accepting abstracts for individual proposals for session panels, consisting of three papers and a chair. Participants need not work in, reside in, or focus their research within the Southeast or the twelve-state SESAH region. Please submit your paper or session proposal to Mason Toms at papers@sesah.org by May 6, 2022.
Additional information about submission requirements and can be found here at the SESAH webpage. Information about SESAH conference travel grants can be found here. Call for Editors of Arris, the Journal of SESAH deadline extended until March 1SESAH (Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians) seeks an Editor or Co-editors, and a Book Review Editor for three issues (2023-25) of its peer-reviewed journal, Arris. Scholars and researchers are invited to respond to this call by March 1, 2022. Editorial positions are unpaid and would begin with work on volume 34 (2023) during the summer of 2022 and end with the completion of volume 36 (2025). One of these issues may be based on a theme, chosen by the Editors and approved by the Arris Editorial Committee, that addresses particular theories, methodologies, or perspectives in the history and/or preservation of the built environment.
Founded in 1989, Arris publishes original scholarship on all aspects of the history and preservation of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. It has a particular interest in new perspectives on the American South; at the same time articles are not limited geographically or temporally. The journal consists of research articles, field notes, and book reviews. Since 2019, Arris has been published in partnership with the University of North Carolina Press (UNC Press).
Issues of Arris are typically produced by a single Editor or two Co-editors who are responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and editing manuscripts, and a Book Review Editor who selects books for review and reviewers. The Editors work in collaboration to establish the content for each issue, which goes to UNC Press for production and publication. Other matters that arise in creating the journal—e.g. administrative and financial—are addressed by the Arris Editorial Committee (which includes the Editors). Communication among the Editors, UNC Press, and the Committee occurs regularly in order to facilitate the process of creating the journal. The Editor (or, in the case of Co-editors, one of the Co-editors) sits on SESAH’s Board of Directors as an ex officio voting member.
Editors must maintain SESAH membership. They may reside outside its twelve-state territory. They may be academic or independent scholars, researchers, preservationists, or curators, and may be early in their professional careers as long as they have publication experience. Editors may not simultaneously hold an editorship position for another journal.
Applicants should send a CV, a Letter of Interest, and names of two references to David Gobel (dgobel@scad.edu), chair of the Arris Editorial Committee, by March 1, 2022. The letter should state the position being applied for (Editor or Co-editors or Book Review Editor). It should include information on publication and/or editorial experience, a brief proposal for a themed issue (optional), and thoughts concerning future directions of Arris. Any questions may be directed to Prof. Gobel. See the website for further information on Arris and SESAH.
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LANDSCAPE HISTORY CHAPTERof the Society of Architectural Historians News | February 2022
Dear Colleagues:
As you know, the SAH 2022 Conference will be held from April 27 to May 1 in Pittsburgh. There are many brilliant panels and events, which can be found via a quick trawl through the conference guidebook.
Of particular note is the Chapter Meeting, which will be held Thursday, April 28, from 1:30–2:30 pm. Chapter updates and the announcement of the 2022 Best Essay winners will top the agenda.
I’ve also highlighted below conference panels that feature members of the Landscape History Chapter. The list is certainly not comprehensive, so please send any SAH panels or talks that you’d like to highlight for our colleagues. You can email me at sahlandscape@gmail.com.
With kind wishes, Betsy
Panels Featuring Chapter Members
Apr. 28, 3–5:10 pm Mobility and Access in Modern Urban Landscapes Chair: Pollyanna Rhee
Apr. 29, 8:30–10:40 am Landscape Inquiries: New Directions Chair: D. Fairchild Ruggles
Apr. 29, 8:30–10:40 am Architectural (Hi)stories of Climate Change and Mobilities Chair: Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat
Apr. 29, 3–5:10 pm Water: Form, Substance, and Meaning in the Landscape Chair: Ann Komara
Book Announcement
Jane Wolff, Bay Lexicon (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021) OFFICERS
President Kathleen John-Alder Rutgers University
Vice President William Coleman The Olana Partnership
Secretary Royce Earnest University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Newsletter Editor Elizabeth Athens University of Connecticut (2021-2023)
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) Conferences/Symposia/Workshops
This symposium focusses on the feverish encounter with the architecture of the archive that made possible these forms of research and asks how to make “privilegings, elisions, and silencing” of the “work of the archive” present, accessible, and suggestive, if at all appropriate, in the architectural *colonial archive?
ASLA Iowa Chapter is partnering with Iowa State University Department of Landscape Architecture to present its annual spring conference. The day will conclude with the P.H. Elwood Lecture presented by Charles Birnbaum, President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
EAHN Biennial Conference School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid June 15–19, 2022
A discussion between Joseph Kunkel (Director, Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab at MASS Design Group) and Teresa Montoya (Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago)
A conversation between Benedict Clouette (Doctoral Student in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP) and Alma Steingart (Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University)
A conversation between Stéphanie Barral (Sociologist at the French National Institute for Agronomic and Environmental Research) and Timothy Mitchell (William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University)
The panel seeks to shed new light on cities as archives of past encounters exposing historical layers through the visual cultures pertaining to the built environment of hubs of exchange in the Horn of Africa, East Africa, and connected regions. It interrogates marine networks and interrelations with the hinterland expressed in the built environment, considering both land and sea routes as spaces of artistic transmission. The unique position of these cities enables a discussion of mobility, and artistic entanglements across different temporalities and geographies. It also provides insights into transcultural and transnational connections, and colonial appropriations of the networks in which these cities are embedded.
We invite respondents to consider the following: building typologies, the use of language when describing spaces and their construction, city morphology, mobility of construction workers, exchanges of buildings techniques, importation and exportation of materials, and fauna and flora ecological exchanges in urban spaces.
Please send your proposal to: Vera-Simone Schulz: vera-simone.schulz@khi.fi.it Suha Hasan: suha.hasan@abe.kth.se
Chicago around 1900 was a laboratory of progressive reforms and Wright, during these years, was part of group of designers and activists increasingly alarmed by crippling widespread social inequality, public health crises, and lack of access to education, nature and affordable housing. The United States, and the Midwest in particular, was experiencing explosive growth due to the rise of industrial capitalism following the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The Progressive movement sought to provide better living conditions for all classes of society. The breadth of progressive reforms imagined often led to ambitious urban planning schemes. The 1893 Fair, for example, offered an alternative vision of modern cities that incorporated numerous infrastructural innovations, spaces for recreation and rationalized circulation patterns, among many improvements, later taken up by Daniel Burnham in his 1909 Plan of Chicago. Wright, together with his progressive peers, explored various planning schemes, from coordinated suburban blocks to neighborhood units, that countered the monumentality of the City Beautiful with a smaller-scale approach echoing the Garden City movement. Other interventions included the construction of playgrounds, parks, recreation centers and public schools across the city, while environmentalists founded conservation groups and designed landscapes sensitive to local ecologies.
Please submit proposals online at savewright.org/proposals. Notification will be sent in early April 2022.
The Architecture + Design Independent Projects grant program is a partnership between the New York State Council on the Arts and The Architectural League of New York, awarding grants for New York State-based individuals and teams to explore a design topic through creation or research. In the 2022 cycle, this program will award 18 grants of $10,000 to proposals in design fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, community-centered design, fashion, graphic, industrial, and interior design.
The SAH American Architecture and Landscape Field Trip grant program funds awe-inspiring architectural and landscape field trips for students in grades 3–12 from under-resourced communities. To provide students with firsthand experiences and hands-on knowledge about the history of the built environment, SAH partners with nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. that offer youth design education programs and docent-led tours of architecture, parks, gardens, neighborhoods, and town/city centers.
SAH welcomes applications from a wide variety of nonprofits including architectural and cultural heritage organizations, house museums, creative placemaking sites, schools of architecture with youth outreach programs, and arts and architecture high schools. Priority will be given to community-based educational programs that focus on marginalized histories that reflect the lived experiences of students and foster meaningful engagement with the built environment in which they live. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Notification of grant awards will be made within six weeks.
The McHarg Fellowship is a new $75,000 award given by the McHarge Center for Urbanism and Ecology to an emerging voice in landscape architecture and its related fields. The Fellowship will be awarded competitively on an annual basis and the fellow is expected to be in residence at Weitzman (in Philadelphia) full-time for one academic year from the beginning of the Fall semester (August) through to the end of the Spring semester (May) in the following year.
The purpose of the Fellowship is to create a breakthrough opportunity for an emerging professional and/or academic, who would benefit most from support to conduct research, to teach, and to be mentored by faculty over the term of the fellowship.
Have something to share in the newsletter? Click Here Image: Russell Smith (1812–1896), The Aqueduct, Pittsburgh (detail), ca. 1832, oil on wood panel, 9 3/4 x 13 inches. Collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art (68.1.2).
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Society of Architectural Historians Philadelphia Chapter & Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance present ARCHITECTURAL QUIZZO This event will be held virtually via Zoom. Friday, March 11 2022, 6:30 PM — 8:30 PM
What’s the oldest highway bridge in the United States? What well-known Philadelphia architect is interred in the Tennessee state capitol building? If you know the answers, and even if you don’t, join us for our second Architectural Quizzo! Sign up individually, or better yet with friends, to test your knowledge of work by Philadelphia architects in other places, surrounding counties, and Philadelphia folklore.
You’ll work in teams to answer five exciting rounds of questions – with prizes for the winning team! (NOTE: you do not have to form a team, in order to make this a truly social event and introduce you to potential new friends you will be assigned to a team after you register.)
Free for members (plus 1 guest) of the Philadelphia Chapter SAH, or the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, and of the Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance. $5 for non-members.
Co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians and the Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia.
2022 Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night POSTPONEDThe NESAH Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night, previously scheduled for Monday, March 7, has been POSTPONED to Monday, March 28, at 7pm. Please see below for event details, and don’t forget to register!Our 2022 Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night, will feature two presentations. Pre-registration for this Zoom event is required to attend! Please register here.* A brief business meeting will precede the lecture. * PLEASE NOTE: THE REGISTRATION LINK ABOVE WAS INCORRECT IN THE PREVIOUS EMAIL. Please use the link above, or manually enter the link from the poster below, to register for this event.
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2022 Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night POSTPONEDThe NESAH Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night, previously scheduled for Monday, March 7, has been POSTPONED to Monday, March 28, at 7pm. Please see below for event details, and don’t forget to register!Our 2022 Annual Meeting/Directors’ Night, will feature two presentations. Pre-registration for this Zoom event is required to attend! Please register here.* A brief business meeting will precede the lecture. * PLEASE NOTE: THE REGISTRATION LINK ABOVE WAS INCORRECT IN THE PREVIOUS EMAIL. Please use the link above, or manually enter the link from the poster below, to register for this event.
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Below are the SAH regional chapter news updates received by the liaison during the month of January 2022.
-Amanda Roth Clark
January – March, Quarterly E-newsletter 2022 | Download the .pdf nowIn This Issue Chris Long on Jock Peters Lost Architecture of Jean Welz Oest on LA Public HousingQuick Links SAH/SCC Book Reviews Brochures from Past Events About Us Become a Member Full Printable Newsletter Here President’s LetterOur Advertisers AD&D MuseumAuthors on Architecture: Long on PetersSAH/SCC Zoom PresentationSunday, January 23, 2022; 1-2:30 PM Pacific Time Be sure to join us for another dynamic lecture by scholar and historian Christopher Long from University of Texas at Austin, as he turns his attention to the little-known architect and designer Jock Peters (1889-1934). Long’s new book, Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism (Bauer and Dean, 2021), is the first monograph on the acclaimed architect and designer. Read more…
Cottage (Lodge Type B) for Park Moderne (unrealized) by Jock Peters with W. F. Ruck, 1930 (pencil and colored pencil on board). Image courtesy of UCSB.The Lost Architecture of Jean WelzSAH/SCC Zoom PresentationSunday, January 30, 2022, 12-1:30 PM Pacific Time Join SAH/SCC for a virtual program with author and filmmaker Peter Wyeth, whose string of discoveries excavated from the most fragmentary evidence has uncovered the architecture career of perhaps the leading South African painter, Jean Welz. The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz (DoppelHouse, 2022) chronicles the mystery of Welz’s virtual absence in the architectural record and Wyeth’s decade-long quest, which gradually assembled an extraordinary picture of Welz’s twelve years in Paris. Read more…
Jean Welz standing atop the flats designed by Ginsberg & Lubetkin at 25 Ave de Versailles, Paris, 1931. Photo courtesy RIBA.Authors on Architecture: Oest on LA Public HousingSAH/SCC Zoom PresentationSunday, February 13, 2022, 1-2:30 PM Pacific Time Join us for a new lens on public housing history in Los Angeles, as scholar Nicole Krup Oest shares her fascinating thesis-turned-book, Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles (Heidelberg University Library, 2021), looks at how photography shaped public perceptions of public housing projects in Los Angeles and nationally. The book includes dozens of seldom seen images from offline collections, which illuminate how the narrative for public housing was shaped, for better or for worse, by the local housing authority. Read more…
Home near Watts, 1945. Photo by Esther Mipaas; courtesy Esther Lewittes Mipaas Collection.
Dear SAH-NYC,
Please find attached here our January calendar of New York area events. Most of the events listed in the SAH-NY calendar are not sponsored by our chapter, so please verify details using the contact information. You should reserve, if necessary, through the contacts listed in the calendar. To have an event listed on a future calendar, please email: jon.ritter@nyu.edu
Wishing you a happy and healthy new year, from, —Jon Ritter
Subject:OESIA Program, DOCOMOMO, Athenaeum Events & More [g4]
The Oliver Evans Chapter Society for Industrial Archeology
invites you to join us for
MORE THAN JUST TRAINS…HOMAGE TO “WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD”
A virtual presentation by Ron Hoess, OE Chapter Member
Over the last 7 years Ron Hoess has been constructing what is referred to as a prototype train layout, meaning a layout that represents a very specific time and place. The layout is set in North Philadelphia circa 1958 and depicts approximately 3 miles of the Pennsylvania Railroad starting just south of North Philadelphia Station and encompassing the first two miles of the Chestnut Hill Branch. In order to accurately portray the area all the structures on the layout are scratch-built so they actually look like the buildings that were there. This work is based on research using Sanborn maps and photographs from the city archives or aerial photographs taken in the 1930s.
SAH Philadelphia is hoping for a robust contingent of paper presenters from our area at the upcoming national meeting hosted by DOCOMOMO Philadelphia.
If you think you might wish to make a presentation to this national audience devoted to preserving Modernism, please review the below call for papers for the conference.
While the January 13th deadline for paper proposals is fast approaching, should you have any questions, or wish to discuss possible ideas, please reach out to Daniel Vieyra (Sessions Co-Chair + SAH liaison) by phone or email: 216.849.6033 danvieyra@yahoo.com
Yo! Modernism! In the Philadelphia region, “yo” is a colloquialism used to get someone’s attention quickly. It’s a phrase without pretense, and when combined with Modernism, it puts into focus the importance of place and community in our modern heritage, as well as the urgency of preservation efforts. The 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium will explore why Modernism still has the power to turn heads, to inform, and to adapt, and how its many manifestations reflect on local, regional, and broader goals.
From pared-down Classicism to space-age whimsy, from the streamlined to the sculptural, from the monumental to the everyday, the multi-layered, multi-generational Modernism found in Philadelphia reflects ideas found around the world, and we look forward to exploring these ideas further. *************************************************** UPCOMING EVENT AT THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA
The Lukowicz Legacy: A Conversation Sean O’Rourke and William Williams February 4 @ 6:00pm IN PERSON https://www.eventbrite.com/e/228552856747 *************************************************** The Society of Architectural Historians PRESENTS HEALTH MATTERS IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY Friday, February 18, 2021 11:00 am–12:30 pm CST Free and open to the public. The webinar will be recorded and made available online after the event. Register at https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/sah-connects/2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has re-centered health in our daily lives and reminded us that the places in which we live, work, play, and seek care all exert profound influences—intended and otherwise—on health outcomes. Yet, urban dwellers have long cohabitated with contagious illnesses, pollutants, and other environmental stressors, and, as a result, have attempted to create places that promote public and individual health in a holistic sense. These efforts can be read in built settings at all scales, from city plans and public parks to hospitals and homes. While there is much scholarly richness at the intersection of health and the built environment, this topic is somewhat marginalized in the field of urban and architectural history.
This panel showcases scholars from a range of disciplines whose work has productively pivoted with the application of a health-centered lens. Collectively, these scholars will demonstrate how using a public health lens can—and should—shed new light on neglected aspects of architectural history and practice by placing human beings (rather than buildings) in the center of research and foregrounding new areas of inquiry and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. Such people- and health-centered partnerships and directives also have unique potential to foreground the inequities that have long accompanied and exacerbated the relationships between people, place, and health, and to better inform and work toward more just, equitable, and effective architectural interventions. Aiming at creating an inspiring setting, especially for junior researchers and to promote innovative research on intersections of health and architectural history, the organizers are planning to invite five panelists from various fields, including history, science history, architecture, and public health.
This panel is co-organized in collaboration with the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative. Founded in March 2020, the EUI has 1900+ members from more than 90 countries.
Speakers: Louisa Iarocci, University of Washington Richard J. Jackson, UCLA Bill Leslie, The Johns Hopkins University Elizabeth Mellyn, University of New Hampshire Daniela Sandler, University of Minnesota
Moderators: Caitlin DeClercq, Columbia University Mohammad Gharipour, Morgan State University *************************************************** Enjoy! Mary Anne
If at any time you no longer wish to be on the list please let me know at info@philachaptersah.org and I will remove your address within eight business days.
Mary Anne Eves
LANDSCAPE HISTORY CHAPTERof the Society of Architectural Historians News | January 2022
Dear colleagues:
There’s much to report in this issue of the newsletter: announcements; calls for papers and sessions; prizes, awards, and grant opportunities; and job openings.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any notices you’d like included in the next newsletter! Sending everyone good wishes for the new year,
Betsy
Announcements and Reminders
Winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Prize Julie Bargmann, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, has been awarded the biennial Oberlander Prize. The committee recognized her work as a provocateur, practitioner, and public intellectual who embodies the kind of activism required of landscape architects in our challenging historical moment.
New Visions of Botanical History, NYBG, Jan. 28, 2022 Kathleen Gutierrez and Jackson Perry, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellows at NYBG’s Humanities Institute, will be giving presentations on their research beginning at 11 am on Jan. 28. The presentations will be virtual.
Landscapes in the Making at Dumbarton Oaks, May 6–7, 2022 Symposiarchs Stephen Daniels, Dell Upton, and Thaïsa Way will be hosting the third symposium in a 5-year series that examines what it means to curate histories of making landscapes. Registration for the event will open in March.
Calls for Papers and Sessions
Call for posters, “Olmsteds: Landscapes and Legacies,” Jan. 14 deadline Technology and Training (NCPTT), will host a three-day symposium as part of Olmsted 200, the national bicentennial commemoration of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, social reformer and founder of American landscape architecture. The symposium will be held in Boston, home to the Emerald Necklace, Olmsted’s last great public project. Adjacent to Boston is Brookline where the Olmsted firm’s home and office resided through 1980.
Olmsted & Beyond: Practice in Progress In 2022, the nation is celebrating the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of the profession of landscape architecture. As landscape architects seek to design a sustainable and equitable world, how does the Olmsted legacy contribute? Equally important, how do we challenge Olmsted’s legacy to steward a more equitable and inclusive public and curate a more resilient and healthier environment in the face of climate change?
We invite proposals for sessions that interrogate the Olmsted legacy by offering a more comprehensive view of the design principles, practice, and legacies of Frederick Law Olmsted and the firm led by his sons. We encourage sessions that consider the broader context of Olmsted’s practice, and the ways the firm’s work shaped the emerging profession as well as those that explore the challenges and opportunities of stewarding Olmsted designs. We also encourage moving beyond Olmsted to consider how contemporary ideas of democracy, climate change, and community engagement might both expand and challenge the legacy.
Topics within this track might focus on: Olmsted principles of design for the public that would steward a more democratic nationOlmsted and contemporary calls for environmental justiceStewarding Olmsted designs in the 21st century — challenges and opportunitiesExpanding contemporary practice by re-engaging Olmsted’s vision Evolution and change in Olmsted landscapesAcknowledging and working with the hard histories of Olmsted’s landscapes (National Parks, Seneca Village, etc.)Is an Olmstedian landscape really a universal template for public parks?Why does it matter that Olmsted was a seaman, farmer, and writer before he started to design?How have ideas about the public and democracy changed since Olmsted designed Central Park? How does that inform stewardship of Olmsted landscapes and the design of new landscapes? Olmsted legacies in the land-grant colleges and universitiesWhat more can we know about Olmsted and why does it matter?Teaching Olmsted: what is important to learn as a student of landscape architecture Prizes, Awards, and Grants
CAA Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions, Jan. 15 deadline The Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions is designed to award instructors of qualifying undergraduate and graduate art history classes funds to cover the costs (travel, accommodations, and admission fees) associated with students and instructors attending museum special exhibitions throughout the United States and worldwide. The purpose of the grant is to enhance students’ first-hand knowledge of original works of art.
Bishir Prize, Feb. 1 deadline The Bishir Prize, named for longtime member and influential scholar Catherine W. Bishir, is awarded annually to the scholarly article from a juried North American publication that has made the most significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes. In judging the nominated articles, the jurors look for an article that is based on primary research, that breaks new ground in interpretation or methodology, and that contributes generally to the intellectual vitality of vernacular studies.
The prior email included an error in the deadline for nominations. Please return nominating forms to the organizing committee by Friday, January 28. Thank you!
Subject:CORRECTION: NESAH Student Symposium Nominations – deadline extended to 1/28
The prior email included an error in the deadline for nominations. Please return nominating forms to the organizing committee by Friday, January 28. Thank you!
New Authors on Architecture:Chris Long on Jock Peters Sunday, January 23rd, 1:00 PM PSTPlease join us for the first program of 2022. One of our favorite presenters and authors, Chris Long will enlighten us on emigre architect/designer Jock Peters…Buy a ticket now… .Read more
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View this email in your browser Graduate Student Research Fellowship deadline extended until February 4The Graduate Student Research Fellowship, established in 2018, is intended to assist graduate students in architectural history or historic preservation conduct research for their thesis or dissertation. The Fellowship awards $1000 to offset research-related expenses and travel. Applications are due February 4, 2022.
Applications should include the following materials in a PDF: statement, budget, CV, name of recommender (letter of recommendation sent separately).For more information, see sesah.org. For information and final reports on past fellowship recipients, click here.Call for Arris Editors deadline January 15 (tomorrow!)SESAH seeks an Editor or Co-editors, and a Book Review Editor for three issues (2023-25) of its peer-reviewed journal, Arris. Scholars and researchers are invited to respond to this call by January 15, 2022.
Applicants should send a CV, a Letter of Interest, and names of two references to David Gobel (dgobel@scad.edu), chair of the Arris Editorial Committee. The letter should state the position being applied for (Editor or Co-editors or Book Review Editor). It should include information on publication and/or editorial experience, a brief proposal for a themed issue (optional), and thoughts concerning future directions of Arris. For more information, see the full call for editors here.
Join us on a virtual trolley adventure that will take you through time and space, from the Native American settlement at Indian Hill Club, through Winnetka’s historic business district, to the scenic Skokie Lagoons, and lastly to fascinating sites along Sheridan Road. Play trivia to try and win a set of Winnetka notecards or a Winnetka coloring book! All ages welcome!Thursday, February 17th7:00-8:15 pm Tickets $10Register HereSponsored by Winnetka Historical SocietyPO Box 365Winnetka, IL 60093847-446-0001winnetkahistory.org
Winnetka Historical Society | PO BOX 365, WINNETKA, IL 60093
The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz:Peter Wyeth Sunday, January 30th, 1:00 PM PSTLearn about this fascinating and talented architect whose work was recently rediscovered! Can’t join in real time? Buy a ticket and receive a link to the recorded program…Buy a ticket now… .Read more
Subject:Phila Chapter SAH Members Annual Pictures (But Provide Your Own Pizza) Pandemic Party [g1]
Please join us for the 2022 PHILA CHAPTER SAH MEMBERS ANNUAL PICTURES (BUT PROVIDE YOUR OWN PIZZA) PANDEMIC PARTY Tues, Feb 1 at 7:00 p.m. online via Zoom
Due to the current high rate of infections, our chapter will host this typically annual event remotely in 2022. It’s a chance for members to share what they’ve seen or studied recently, usually with a little time for Q+A.
If you wish to join us without speaking, please email David.Breiner@jefferson.edu by Jan 30 to receive a secure Zoom link with password to the event.
If you wish to show images and speak, you must email David.Breiner@jefferson.edu by Jan 25 and submit your images as a power point or series of jpg’s so they can be organized. If you are using jpg’s they must be labeled with your name and then numbered starting with 001, 002, 003 … 010, 011, etc. (that is, Breiner001, Breiner002). All presentations are limited to 10 minutes, which will allow for 8-10 presenters. You will receive a secure Zoom link with password to the event. We cannot guarantee that there will be time for everyone who wants to speak to do so, but will let speakers know in advance.
We’re doing our best to avoid having our “party” uninterrupted by zoom bombers. Please don’t share the link and password with people you don’t know. Thanks, and hope you can join us.
Mary Anne Eves
Authors on Architecture:Chris Long on Jock Peters Sunday, January 23rd, 1:00 PM PSTPlease join us for the first program of 2022. One of our favorite presenters and authors, Chris Long will enlighten us on emigre architect/designer Jock Peters…Buy a ticket now… .Read more
Authors on Architecture:Chris Long on Jock Peters Sunday, January 23rd, 1:00 PM PSTPlease join us for the first program of 2022. One of our favorite presenters and authors, Chris Long will enlighten us on emigre architect/designer Jock Peters. If you can’t make it in real time, purchase a ticket anyway and we will send you the recorded program to enjoy at your leisure.Buy a ticket now… .Read more
The work of Architect Giulia de Appolonia is exemplary of the most current expressions of the ever-evolving image of the Italian urban landscape, and of its future aspirations.
Join us for the presentation of a selection of de Appolonia’s work, presented by their creator.
Giulia de Appolonia has almost 30 years of activity with different roles within dissimilar professional fields of architecture. The 13 years in Portugal have contributed to her personal growth from trainee to project manager and subsequently to an independent and signatory designer. In 2000, she founded her first professional studio in Lisbon, succeeding in the 5 years of activity in Portugal to achieve first place in the competition for an important public work – The Science Museum of Bragança. In 2005, back in Italy, she won an important design competition for the congress center of Brescia Zoo-prophylactic Institute and in 2008, she started a joint venture with 3 other professionals, in Brescia (ABDAsrl) to add creative and design energies and access the project market on a larger scale. Since 2014, due to the market recession, she has taken the path of freelance again, this time orienting her activity towards a very specific area of medium-sized public works. Since that time, despite the difficulties of the market, she built a growing reality obtaining various public works assignments through tenders for design and construction management. In the meanwhile she maintained a connection to the academic world both as TEACHING ASSISTANT IN THE COURSE OF “ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT STUDIO” WITH EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA AND CARRILHO DA GRAÇA in the Politecnico di Milano/Mantova and as an invited lecturer at various universities and events. **************************************************** Enjoy! Mary Anne
The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz:Peter Wyeth Sunday, January 30th, 1:00 PM PSTLearn about this fascinating and talented architect whose work was recently rediscovered! Can’t join in real time? Buy a ticket and receive a link to the recorded program…Buy a ticket now… .Read more
There’s still time to sign up for the 2022 PHILA CHAPTER SAH MEMBERS ANNUAL PICTURES (BUT PROVIDE YOUR OWN PIZZA) PANDEMIC PARTY Tues, Feb 1 at 7:00 p.m. online via Zoom
Due to the current high rate of infections, our chapter will host this typically annual event remotely in 2022. It’s a chance for members to share what they’ve seen or studied recently, usually with a little time for Q+A.
If you wish to join us without speaking, please email David.Breiner@jefferson.edu by Jan 30 to receive a secure Zoom link with password to the event.
If you wish to show images and speak, please email David.Breiner@jefferson.edu by Jan 29 and submit your images as a power point or series of jpg’s so they can be organized. If you are using jpg’s they must be labeled with your name and then numbered starting with 001, 002, 003 … 010, 011, etc. (that is, Breiner001, Breiner002). All presentations are limited to 10 minutes, which will allow for 8-10 presenters. You will receive a secure Zoom link with password to the event. We cannot guarantee that there will be time for everyone who wants to speak to do so, but will let speakers know in advance.
We’re doing our best to avoid having our “party” uninterrupted by zoom bombers. Please don’t share the link and password with people you don’t know. Thanks, and hope you can join us.
2022 NESAH FellowshipsThe New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians invites applications for the Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship and the John Coolidge Research Fellowship. More information about each, and application details, can be found on our website. Rettig Fellowship applications are due on February 18.Coolidge Fellowhip applications are due on March 18. Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship
The Rettig Fellowship provides financial assistance for graduate students and emerging professionals attending the Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). The fellowship include support of up to $500, plus a registration fee waiver. This year’s annual meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27-May1, 2022. The Rettig Fellowship honors Robert B. Rettig, the founding president of the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and an advocate for student travel to the national SAH annual meeting. From 1964 to 1971, Robert Rettig worked for the Cambridge Historical Commission, where he served as co-author and/or editor of the first three volumes of the Commission’s Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge and as author of Guide to Cambridge Architecture: Ten Walking Tours (MIT Press, 1969). From his work in Cambridge, Rettig went on to leadership positions at the Boston Landmarks Commission, the Massachusetts Historical Commission, and the National Register of Historic Places. He is an SAH Fellow and a benefactor of national SAH. John Coolidge Research Fellowship Supported by the chapter’s John Coolidge Educational Fund, the John Coolidge Research Fellowship assists graduate students at a New England college or university working on topics in architectural history, the built environment, or a related field through an award of $1,000 to support their research. The John Coolidge Research Fellowship was established following the death of Dr. John Coolidge (1913-1995), a founding member of the Society of Architectural Historians and an early member of the New England Chapter of the SAH. Professor Coolidge taught at Harvard from 1947-1984 and served as director of the Fogg Museum from 1948-1968. His book, Mill and Mansion: A Study of Architecture and Society in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1820-1865 (Columbia University Press), was among the first scholarly studies of American industrial architecture. NE/SAH on InstagramFollow us on Instagram, where we regularly showcase beautiful images of our region’s architecture: instagram.com/newengland_sah/
LAST CHANCE!The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz:Peter Wyeth Sunday, January 30th, 1:00 PM PSTLearn about this fascinating and talented architect whose work was recently rediscovered! Can’t join in real time? Buy a ticket and receive a link to the recorded program…Buy a ticket now… .Read more
UPCOMING LECTURE: Sarah Horowitz, 2/28Monday, February 28, 20227:00pm “A Purposeful Monument”:Designing the Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, 1966-69 Sarah Horowitz2021 John Coolidge Fellowship Recipient Presented via ZoomFree! Pre-registration is required to attend. Please register here. The building of performing arts centers in America from the mid-1950s until the early 1970s represents a significant architectural movement to rejuvenate major cities that had fallen stagnant after World War II. The Milwaukee Center for the Performing Arts, designed by architect Harry Weese and constructed between 1966 and 1969, is one example of how the building of a performing arts center became a means by which regional leaders, architects, and engineers sought to reconcile disparate economic, social, and civic priorities through design. Considering the origins of this performing arts center project, its design program, and its effects on Milwaukee and its communities, this talk explores how the architecture of the Milwaukee Center for the Performing Arts reflects larger ambitions of urban and cultural redevelopment within postwar America. 2022 NESAH FellowshipsThe New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians invites applications for the Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship and the John Coolidge Research Fellowship. More information about each, and application details, can be found on our website. Rettig Fellowship applications are due on February 18.Coolidge Fellowhip applications are due on March 18. Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship
The Rettig Fellowship provides financial assistance for graduate students and emerging professionals attending the Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). The fellowship include support of up to $500, plus a registration fee waiver. This year’s annual meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27-May1, 2022. The Rettig Fellowship honors Robert B. Rettig, the founding president of the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and an advocate for student travel to the national SAH annual meeting. From 1964 to 1971, Robert Rettig worked for the Cambridge Historical Commission, where he served as co-author and/or editor of the first three volumes of the Commission’s Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge and as author of Guide to Cambridge Architecture: Ten Walking Tours (MIT Press, 1969). From his work in Cambridge, Rettig went on to leadership positions at the Boston Landmarks Commission, the Massachusetts Historical Commission, and the National Register of Historic Places. He is an SAH Fellow and a benefactor of national SAH. John Coolidge Research Fellowship Supported by the chapter’s John Coolidge Educational Fund, the John Coolidge Research Fellowship assists graduate students at a New England college or university working on topics in architectural history, the built environment, or a related field through an award of $1,000 to support their research. The John Coolidge Research Fellowship was established following the death of Dr. John Coolidge (1913-1995), a founding member of the Society of Architectural Historians and an early member of the New England Chapter of the SAH. Professor Coolidge taught at Harvard from 1947-1984 and served as director of the Fogg Museum from 1948-1968. His book, Mill and Mansion: A Study of Architecture and Society in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1820-1865 (Columbia University Press), was among the first scholarly studies of American industrial architecture. Stay tuned for more events coming soon!NE/SAH on InstagramFollow us on Instagram, where we regularly showcase beautiful images of our region’s architecture: instagram.com/newengland_sah/
Below are the SAH regional chapter news updates received by the liaison during the month of December 2021.
-Amanda Roth Clark
Subject:Phila SAH Members Pizza & Pix Party Poll [g1]
The Phila Chapter SAH would like our member’s opinion on our Annual Post Holidays Pizza & Pictures Party 2022 which is usually held in late January. Please reply to his email and indicate which option you prefer: A, B, or C
A. I am willing to come to an in-person program wearing a mask with proof of vaccination and would remove my mask to eat the pizza.
B. I am willing to come to an in-person program wearing a mask with proof of vaccination but would not be comfortable among others who remove their masks to eat the pizza. (This is the no refreshments served option)
C. I would prefer a “pictures only via Zoom, stay at home and provide your own refreshments” program.
Thanks for your consideration.
If this is an in-person event it will be subject to any additional restrictions that may be put in place by the municipality where the event would be held as the situation with COVID remains in flux.
Thanks,Mary Anne Eves Program Committee & Board Member, Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians www.philachaptersah.org
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Authors on Architecture:Ettinger on Neutra in Latin America Saturday, December 4th, 2021, 1:00 PM PSTLearn how Neutra’s travel and projects in Latin America influenced his architecture. This program celebrates the publication of this book in English for the very first time.Buy a ticket now….Read more
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Last Chance to Sign Up!Ettinger on Neutra in Latin America Saturday, December 4th, 2021, 1:00 PM PSTLearn how Neutra’s travel and projects in Latin America influenced his architecture. This program celebrates the publication of this book in English for the very first time. If you can’t make the event live, watch a video on your own time…Buy a ticket now….Read more
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Benefit SAH Chicago Chapter
We’re pleased to let you know about a great opportunity to support the SAH Chapter and maybe take care of a little holiday shopping, too! Keith Bringe’s Rare Nest Gallery has launched an Ebay selling program of books, art and media in Memory of Bill Locke. Sales will substantially benefit the Chapter so check it out.You’ll find a fascinating curated selection – heavy on Chicago connections but international in scope. There are antiquarian books including a two-volume set of “Daniel H. Burnham: Planner of Cities” from 1921 with one volume inscribed by Hubert Burnham. The listings each have lots of photo’s & background information on the books.The 10-day auctions launched this evening at 7:00 PM. You can see the listings here or cut and paste the link below.Download the curated catalog with important information or see attached.Opening bids start at just $12 – there is something for everyone! Some of these would make great holiday presents and Rare Nest is offering pick-up with free gift wrapping (make sure to select “Pick-Up” if you win and are checking out on Ebay. Or if you prefer – choose shipping when you check out.Be sure to read the Caxton Club’s remembrance of Bill Locke on the last page of the Catalog.If you have questions feel free to email Keith — keith@rarenestgallery.comLink for cut and paste:https://www.ebay.com/str/rarenest/BILL-LOCKE-FUND-4-SAH-CHAPTER/_i.html?store_cat=36312858016
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Purchase a link to a 2021 Zoom ProgramSee what you missed! Just $5 each!It has been a busy year for most of us. At SAH/SCC we produced 20 new lectures by authors, architects and historians on topics from Hollywood Studios to Paul Williams to Bill Cody and Richard Dorman. Kick back with a cocktail and enjoy at your leisure!Purchase a program now! And if you like what we do, make an end of the year donation..Buy a recording now
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Subject:Western Reserve Architectural Historians
Dear WRAH Member, WRAH did not actively collect membership dues in 2021. We received a dues payment from you and are considering your membership paid for 2022. You will not be receiving a request for payment. Four programs are being developed for Spring 2022 and you will be receiving the printed materials in February. We hope to resume the earlier model of Spring and Fall visits and lectures in 2022 and look forward to your joining us. Happy Holidays from the WRAH Board. Judith Sheridan, WRAH Secretary
The Carpenter’s Company invites you to CO-LÀ-BREITH SONA DHUIT*: ROBERT SMITH’S 300TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION! Friday, January 14, 2022, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST In person at Carpenters’ Hall, 320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/187868970147
Join us for a festive, Scottish-themed celebration of the master builder of Carpenters’ Hall!
Robert Smith was Colonial America’s leading architect and builder. He was born on January 14, 1722, in Dalkeith, Scotland. His extant work in Philadelphia includes Carpenters’ Hall, the Powel House, St. Peter’s Church and the steeple of Christ Church, and he also built Nassau Hall in Princeton and the Public Hospital in Williamsburg, among many others. He was also a devout patriot who designed Delaware River defenses to thwart British warships.
Chris Thomson, Counsellor with the Scottish Government USA, will be our special guest, and Bruce Laverty, architecture curator at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, will tell us about Smith’s life and impact. Light fare, Scottish music and dancing, and of course whisky will round out the evening.
Ticket also includes a complimentary copy of the illustrated coffee-table book Robert Smith: Architect, Builder, Patriot 1722-1777 by Charles Peterson.
Proof of Covid vaccination will be required for admittance.
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia, and the Scottish Government USA. Whisky Sponsor: ImpEx Beverages Community Partner: Society of Architectural Historians, Philadelphia Chapter
*”Co-là-breith sona dhuit” means “Happy Birthday to You” in Gaelic! *************************************************** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR DOCOMOMO NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2022 YO! MODERNISM! IN PHILADELPHIA JUNE 1-4, 2022
Yo! Modernism! In the Philadelphia region, “yo” is a colloquialism used to get someone’s attention quickly. It’s a phrase without pretense, and when combined with Modernism, it puts into focus the importance of place and community in our modern heritage, as well as the urgency of preservation efforts. The 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium will explore why Modernism still has the power to turn heads, to inform, and to adapt, and how its many manifestations reflect on local, regional, and broader goals.
From pared-down Classicism to space-age whimsy, from the streamlined to the sculptural, from the monumental to the everyday, the multi-layered, multi-generational Modernism found in Philadelphia reflects ideas found around the world, and we look forward to exploring these ideas further. *************************************************** Enjoy! Mary Anne
Dear colleagues:
Jan Woudstra of the University of Sheffield and Robert Holden of FOLAR are in the process of organizing a conference on the topic of Teaching History in Landscape Schools, which has now been publicized: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/landscape/events
The conference will be held on 8 and 9 September 2022, at the University of Sheffield, UK. It will be preceded by a series of online debates on the topic, organized by Landscape Matters.
Please note that the deadline for ideas and abstracts is 15 February 2022.
With kind wishes for the holidays, Betsy
Dear colleagues:
There’s been some technological difficulties updating the Landscape Chapter website; hopefully the kinks will be addressed soon and we can update it with information on this spring’s SAH conference.
In the meantime, Mohammed Gharipour asked to bring the recent op-ed in the Baltimore Sun to the membership’s attention.
Gert Groening also wished to alert everyone to the recent film on the gardener Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel, which can be viewed here.
Below are the SAH regional chapter news updates received by the liaison during the month of October 2021.
-Amanda Roth Clark
SAH Landscape History Chapter
Dear colleagues:
Just a reminder that this Monday, November 1, is the deadline for SAH Landscape History Chapter Essay Prize submissions.
The prize is awarded to the author/s of a peer-reviewed journal or chapter on landscape architectural history. This year’s selection committee includes D. Fairchild Ruggles, Finola O’Kane Crimmins, and Kenneth Helphand.
Criteria: The maximum of one prize every second year can be given to the author/s of a peer-reviewed journal article or chapter in a peer-reviewed book published in English that concerns landscape architectural history. The article should:
Provide a significant contribution to landscape architectural history in either method or content
Present a succinct and rigorous argument and/or historical account
Impact the field of landscape architectural history and/or landscape architectural practice
Use high-quality visual representations (paintings, photographs, diagrams, and/or sketches) that expand the text in tangible and meaningful ways, as appropriate to the topic/argument
Submission Format: Articles must be submitted electronically as pdf files to the president of the landscape chapter, Kathleen John-Alder (johnalde@sebs.rutgers.edu), and the vice-president of the landscape chapter, William Coleman (william@williamlcoleman.com) by midnight Eastern Time, November 1, 2021.
WIth kind wishes, Betsy
Phila Chapter SAH Info <info@philachaptersah.org> Date: October 25, 2021 at 1:00:59 PM PDT Subject:Electric Light & Villas of Girard Ave [g4]
REMINDER JOIN US IN PERSON THIS THIS WEEK SPACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE, BUT REGISTRATION REQUIRED Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia present MODERN SPACES OF ELECTRIC LIGHT by Sandy Isenstadt, Professor and Chair, History of Modern Architecture, University of Delaware and author of Electric Light: An Architectural History (MIT Press 2018) Wednesday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m. This will be an in-person event at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 219 S. 6th Street. Free for Phila SAH members & Athenaeum members, $10 all others Preregistration required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-spaces-of-electric-light-with-sandy-isenstadt-tickets-168334654483
Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape when it was introduced in the late-nineteenth century. It was a new and uniquely modern kind of building material, generating new sorts of spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. This talk will review several such spaces—from automobile headlights to factory lighting to wartime mandated blackouts—in order to construct an architectural modernism centered on the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification. *************************************************** SAVE THE DATE for the next Philadelphia SAH program
VILLAS OF GIRARD AVENUE: DEVELOPMENT OF A NORTH PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE 1840S by Paula Spilner
Sunday, November 14 at 2:00 p.m. via Zoom detail will follow shortly. ***************************************************
Enjoy! Mary Anne
SAH Programs, Fall 2021, list 2B
Turpin Bannister Chapter
Society of Architectural Historians
25 October 2021
Re: Two programs for fall
Dear SAH Members, a Happy Fall to you all. WE certainly thought that Covid would be nearly over by now and it still persists.
We are taking it easy while we wait to see what is next, but have two programs set so far for the fall, one a talk by Walter Wheeler, which we are co-sponsoring with the New Scotland Historical Society, set for Sunday November 7th at 2PM-Getting the Job Done / Construction, Builders, and Building Materials in the Upper Hudson and Mohawk Valleys, 1755-1765.
It will be at the Wyman Osterhout Community Center, Route 85 in New Salem. See the attached flyer for details, or go to their website, www.newscotlandhistoricalaccociation.org
A second program is a tour of Historic Cherry Hill set for Saturday December 4 at 10 AM. A lot has been done since our last program there about 5 years ago. Details to follow.
What would it mean to fully embrace the concept of landscape as a milieu of situated, everyday practices, encompassing the mutually constitutive relations between people and place? And how can landscape studies, a field with roots in Western cartographic and imperial traditions, establish scholarly and activist frameworks that facilitate inclusivity, belonging, and justice? The co-editors of the recently published edited volume Landscape Citizenships (Routledge, 2021) will join Thaïsa Way, Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, to consider these and other questions in a roundtable discussion of their new book. The discussants will also reflect upon how their own landscape emplacements and research positions informed the making of the book and its emphasis on democratic modes of landscape thinking and practice.
Lecture Reminder: David Karmon, 10/18/21 Reply-To: NESAH <reply-33b7bd23d4-32c7042937-cc2a@u.cts.vresp.com>
EVENT REMINDER: David Karmon, 10/18
A friendly reminder about our next upcoming event, a book talk, this coming Monday, October 18 at 7pm. Pre-registration is required to attend! Please register here.
Monday, October 18, 2021
7:00pm
A Multisensory Approach to the History of Renaissance Architecture
David Karmon
Presented via Zoom
Free! Pre-registration is required to attend. Please register here.
While architectural history—and the history of Renaissance architecture in particular—prioritizes visual analysis, David Karmon’s new book, Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience, offers a new approach by investigating the rich, immersive, and multisensory experiences created by these built settings. While we often assume Renaissance architects attended to visual refinements such as linear perspective, they were also acutely aware that the design of buildings and cities as complex multisensory environments could be used to achieve many different purposes. Please join us to hear how Renaissance architecture and urbanism offered a kind of ‘experiential trigger’ that shaped ways of both thinking and being in the world.
Please find attached here our October calendar of NY area events. There is of course a lot going in “Archtober,” so I hope to see you at some events this month. You can find the complete listings for Archtober at this link: https://www.archtober.org/
And you can find the many events hosted by Open House New York at this link: https://ohny.org/
Most of the events listed in the SAH-NY calendar are not sponsored by our chapter, so please verify details using the contact information. You should reserve, if necessary, through the contacts listed in the calendar. To have an event listed on a future calendar, please email.
From: Phila Chapter SAH Info <info@philachaptersah.org> Date: October 3, 2021 at 9:12:35 AM PDT Subject:Avon Calling & Electric Light [g4]
Hagley Museum & Library Author Talk DING DONG! AVON CALLING! THE WOMEN AND MEN OF AVON PRODUCTS, INCORPORATED by Katina Manko Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 7:00 P.M. Soda House Auditorium Registration is limited—please register now via Eventbrite at https://dingdongavoncalling.eventbrite.com. Books will be available for purchase at a discounted rate before and after the talk use the Buck Road entrance gate: 298 Buck Road, Wilmington, DE 19807
Please join us for the first in person event from the Center since winter of 2020! Katina Manko will lead off the fall series with a talk based on her just-published book, Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated. Founded in the late nineteenth century, Avon grew into a massive international direct sales company in which millions of “ambassadors of beauty” sat in their customers’ living rooms equipped with sample cases, catalogues, and a conversational sales pitch. Avon was unique for its reliance on women as representatives, promising them not just sales positions, but a chance to have a business of their own. Drawing for the first time on company records she helped acquire for Hagley, Manko illuminates Avon’s inner workings, uncovers the lives of its representatives, and shows how women slowly rose into management.
Katina Manko is an independent scholar specializing in US women’s history. With a PhD from the Hagley Program at the University of Delaware, she currently teaches at the Yeshiva University High School for Girls. A talk she delivered about her discovery of the Avon collection can be found here. *************************************************** Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia present MODERN SPACES OF ELECTRIC LIGHT by Sandy Isenstadt, Professor and Chair, History of Modern Architecture, University of Delaware and author of Electric Light: An Architectural History (MIT Press 2018) Wednesday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m. This will be an in-person event at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 219 S. 6th Street. Free for Phila SAH members & Athenaeum members, $10 all others Preregistration required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-spaces-of-electric-light-with-sandy-isenstadt-tickets-168334654483
Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape when it was introduced in the late-nineteenth century. It was a new and uniquely modern kind of building material, generating new sorts of spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. This talk will review several such spaces—from automobile headlights to factory lighting to wartime mandated blackouts—in order to construct an architectural modernism centered on the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification. *************************************************** Enjoy! Mary Anne
If at any time you no longer wish to be on the list please let me know at info@philachaptersah.org and I will remove your address within eight business days.
Mary Anne Eves Program Committee & Board Member, Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians www.philachaptersah.org
SAH Needs YOU! Join the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and help us promote and preserve our architectural history and heritage. Here’s a link to join today https://philachaptersah.org/index.php/membership/
SAH Landscape History Chapter
Dear colleagues:
Just a reminder that submissions for the SAH Landscape History Chapter Essay Prize areduemidnight (Eastern Time), November 1, 2021.
The prize is awarded to the author/s of a peer-reviewed journal or chapter on landscape architectural history. This year’s selection committee includes D. Fairchild Ruggles, Finola O’Kane Crimmins, and Kenneth Helphand.
Criteria: The maximum of one prize every second year can be given to the author/s of a peer-reviewed journal article or chapter in a peer-reviewed book published in English that concerns landscape architectural history. The article should:
Provide a significant contribution to landscape architectural history in either method or content
Present a succinct and rigorous argument and/or historical account
Impact the field of landscape architectural history and/or landscape architectural practice
Use high-quality visual representations (paintings, photographs, diagrams, and/or sketches) that expand the text in tangible and meaningful ways, as appropriate to the topic/argument
Submission Format: Articles must be submitted electronically as pdf files to the president of the landscape chapter, Kathleen John-Alder (johnalde@sebs.rutgers.edu), and the vice-president of the landscape chapter, William Coleman (william@williamlcoleman.com) by midnight Eastern Time, November 1, 2021.
Below are the SAH regional chapter news updates received by the liaison during the month of September 2021.
-Amanda Roth Clark
LANDSCAPE HISTORY CHAPTER
of the Society of Architectural Historians
New Newsletter Editor
Greetings Colleagues:
I’d like to welcome you to the new academic year and to introduce myself, your new newsletter editor. I’m taking over for Margot Lystra and will endeavor to keep you all up-to-date on landscape-related events. My plan is to compile a newsletter every two months (Sept. 15, Nov. 15, etc.), with some additional notices for events that might otherwise fall between the cracks.
In advance of our regularly scheduled Sept. 15 newsletter, I wanted to alert you to the Garden Transmissions conference, to be held Sept. 27 & 28 at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. For more information on the program or to register, view the website here.
If you have anything you wish to be included in the upcoming newsletter on Sept. 15, please click the link below or send me an email at elizabeth.athens@uconn.edu. I am hoping to start a new newsletter feature that highlights what members are reading, so please let me know if you have a book you’d like to recommend to your colleagues.
With kind wishes,
Betsy Athens
Authors on Architecture:
Palm Springs Modernist, Bill Cody
Saturday, September 11th, 2021, 1:00 PM PST
Don’t miss this engaging presentation by three authors of the brand new monograph on Palm Springs modern architect, Bill Cody…
An interactive application called Workplaces.ai has been developed by Zaha Hadid Architects’ ZH-Social Research Group as part of the Mindspaces STARTS project. The team focuses on the development of a new methodology for the comparative appraisal of the social functionality of design options, by investigating the social interaction processes to be expected in architectural environments via agent-based simulations with differentiated agent populations and autonomous decision processes. Through this process, it studies the relationship between human life process behaviour in relation to architecture to actively measure and predict social behaviour in the spaces we design.
Chicago
Tickets are now available for Wrightwood 659’s fall exhibition, Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright, opening September 24th.
Join us Thursday September 23rd at 5:30 CST for a live-streamed virtual discussion to celebrate the opening of our fall exhibition, Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright and the launch of the accompanying publication. The conversation opens with remarks by curator Jonathan Katz on Frank Lloyd Wright’s demolished Larkin Building, designed as an innovative workplace. The panel that follows will delve into the importance of Chicago’s lost Garrick Theatre —and the results of the quest and failure to save it– with curators John Vinci and Tim Samuelson and author Daniel Bluestone, all contributors to the publication, Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler and Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece. Moderated by Wrightwood 659 Curatorial Consultant Gina Pollara.
The health and safety of our guests and staff is our top priority. In an effort to reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19, we have adopted the following measures based on CDC, state, and city guidelines.
All staff and guests are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. By entering Wrightwood 659, you represent to us that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. We reserve the right to ask guests to produce evidence of their vaccination.
Masks covering the mouth and nose are required at all times
Hand sanitizing stations are located on each floor
Thorough cleaning of high-touch surfaces throughout the day
Reduced gallery capacity with timed entry
Thank you for your cooperation. We look forward to welcoming you for a safe and enjoyable visit!
Wrightwood 659’s hours beginning September 24
Fridays, open from
12:00p – 7:00p
Saturdays, open from
10:00a – 5:00p
All guests must be ticketed, with admission at specified times. No walk-ups can be admitted.
Glessner House’s Great Chicago Fire gala is tomorrow night (Friday, September 10) with virtual and in person attendees. There is also an online auction with lots of really cool items. The end of the auction is Sunday, September 12.
Online Auction closes today,
Sunday, September 12, at 6:00pm CDT
Don’t miss your chance to be the winning bidder while helping to support the mission of Glessner House
Our online auction features a wonderful array of experiences and merchandise. Here is just a small sampling of what you will find:
-Chicago Fire Department “Fireman for a Day” (for two people)
-Wine tasting for 12 people
-Italian travel adventure to Tuscany
-Chicago Bears package
-Design Definitive LLC consultation
-Reproduction Sullivan ornament from Carson Pirie Scott building
-Michigan getaway weekend
-Dinner for six in the Glessner House dining room
The auction will close on Sunday, September 12 at 6:00pm. All proceeds directly benefit Glessner House.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY CHAPTER
of the Society of Architectural Historians
News | September 2021
Dear colleagues: There are a number of announcements and deadlines to highlight in this issue of the newsletter.
First, I’d like to provide an updated link to the Gulbenkian conference in Lisbon, for September 27 and 28. You can access information on it here: https://skyros-congressos.pt/garden-transmissions2021/. My apologies for the broken link in the previous notice. Second, I’d like to draw attention to the Society of Architectural Historians Landscape History Chapter’s Essay Prize, awarded to the author/s of a peer-reviewed journal or chapter on landscape architectural history.
This year’s selection committee includes D. Fairchild Ruggles, Finola O’Kane Crimmins, and Kenneth Helphand. The deadline for submission is midnight (Eastern Time), November 1, 2021. More information on essay criteria and submission format can be found at the bottom of the newsletter. Other Forthcoming Deadlines: SAH Annual Conference Fellowships(September 30)
Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships (November 1) Foundation for Landscape Studies David R. Coffin Publication Grant(December 1) Foundation for Landscape Studies John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize(December 1) Conferences and Other Events: The Cultural Landscape Foundation will be hosting the conference “Courageous by Design” on October 15. Click here to find the schedule of speakers and to register. The European Architectural History Network will be holding their 7th International Meeting in Madrid, June 15–19, 2022. For more information, check out the conference website. They have also extended the deadline on the call for papers until September 20. If you have a paper you would like to present, you can submit your proposal through the conference platform. Publications: Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes is seeking proposals for a new forum feature of the journal. The Forum is envisioned as an opportunity for scholars to develop collaboratively conversations in print around a specific focal point, topic, or theme in the history of gardens and designed landscapes. The focal point might be a newly digitized manuscript or book, it might be a newly acquired set of garden plans, a newly restored or discovered landscape, or an emerging scholarly or cultural question or debate in garden and landscape history. More information available here. Member Gert Groening highlighted recent scholarship by Tanja Kilzer, “Der Garten der Villa Vizcaya—James Deerings italienische Traumwelt in Miami,” in the most recent edition of Die Gartenkunst, pp. 159–80. We’ve just added a “What Are You Reading?” section of the newsletter to highlight the scholarship our members have found especially compelling. The Landscape History Chapter’s Vice-President, Will Coleman, has agreed to share what’s on his reading list for this edition of the newsletter (see below). If you’d like to contribute to this new section, please reach out. With kind wishes, Betsy
OFFICERS
President
Kathleen John-Alder
Rutgers University
Vice President
William Coleman
The Olana Partnership
Secretary
Royce Earnest
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Newsletter Editor
Elizabeth Athens
University of Connecticut
(2021-2023)
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)
Society of Architectural Historians Landscape History Chapter Essay Prize 2022
Have you authored a peer-reviewed journal article published during the last three years that has made an important contribution to landscape architectural history? Please consider submitting for a Landscape History Essay Prize.
Criteria:
The maximum of one prize every second year can be given to the author/s of a peer-reviewed journal article or chapter in a peer-reviewed book published in English that concerns landscape architectural history. The article should:
Provide a significant contribution to landscape architectural history in either method or content
Present a succinct and rigorous argument and/or historical account
Impact the field of landscape architectural history and/or landscape architectural practice
Use high-quality visual representations (paintings, photographs, diagrams, and/or sketches) that expand the text in tangible and meaningful ways, as appropriate to the topic/argument
Submission Format:
Articles must be submitted electronically as pdf files to the president of the landscape chapter, Kathleen John-Alder (johnalde@sebs.rutgers.edu), and the vice-president of the landscape chapter, William Coleman (william@williamcoleman.com) by midnight Eastern Time, November 1, 2021.
Eligibility:
Any author(s) writing on the subject of landscape architectural history
Articles can be submitted by the author or a reader, but not by the selection committee
Only one article can be submitted per person
Articles eligible for the 2022 prize must be published between January 1, 2019 and October 1, 2021.
What Are You Reading?
I’ve been greatly valuing Katherine Manthorne’s Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex. Manthorne has been piecing together for many years the scattered archives and artworks of this often overlooked contributor to the mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painting boom known colloquially as the Hudson River School. In this book, she builds a web of associations, helping us to understand Greatorex’s path and the choices she made by evoking with both rigorous research and literary flair the contexts she is known to have inhabited, even when documentation of the artist herself is scanty. (Her role in the fascinating built environment of the art colony of Cragsmoor, NY, will be of particular interest to Chapter members.) It’s a compelling model of how to do history on figures whose stories have been less well preserved as we all try to widen the lens.
A Multisensory Approach to the History of Renaissance Architecture
David Karmon
Presented via Zoom
Free! Pre-registration is required to attend. Please register here.
While architectural history—and the history of Renaissance architecture in particular—prioritizes visual analysis, David Karmon’s new book, Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience, offers a new approach by investigating the rich, immersive, and multisensory experiences created by these built settings. While we often assume Renaissance architects attended to visual refinements such as linear perspective, they were also acutely aware that the design of buildings and cities as complex multisensory environments could be used to achieve many different purposes. Please join us to hear how Renaissance architecture and urbanism offered a kind of ‘experiential trigger’ that shaped ways of both thinking and being in the world.
I am writing to draw attention to an event that fell between the bimonthly newsletters. There will be a Tribute to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on October 3, at 2:30 PM. The tribute will take place at the Chan Shun Performance Hall at Chan Centre for Performing Arts in Vancouver, BC. You can RSVP for the event here.
I would also like to offer a correction to the recent newsletter. The book prizes formerly awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies, now disbanded, will be administered by the University of Virginia Landscape Studies Institute. I will send an email with submission dates and guidelines once I’ve received these details.
Sending kind wishes,
Betsy
Dear colleagues:
I’m writing to highlight that the Tribute to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on October 3, at 2:30 PM will also be live-streamed and recorded. The event will take place at the Chan Shun Performance Hall at Chan Centre for Performing Arts in Vancouver, BC, but can be attended virtually. You can find registration details for the event here–registration is via Eventbrite.
Apologies for over-filling your inboxes with notices this past week!
Sending kind wishes,
Betsy
Authors on Architecture:
Florence Knoll, Modern Furniture Designer
Sunday, September 26th, 2021, 11:00 AM PST
PLEASE NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME OF THIS PROGRAM!
Recordings will be made available for those who cannot attend in real time.
Join SAH/SCC as we welcome Dr. Ana Arujo to talk about her new book, No Compromise: The Work of Florence Knoll…
East Falls Historical Society presents THE OLD “FALLS VILLAGE” WALKING TOUR Sep 25, 10:00 AM SHARP
meets at Inn Yard Park, 4208-52 Ridge Ave, Philadelphia (next to the fire station)
$15 Admission
$10 EFHS Members
You can JOIN the EFHS at the Tour – total $25
No pre-registration needed. Please meet at 10:00 sharp at the Inn Yard Park.
The tour goes on unless the morning brings heavy rain. Rain Date will be Sunday, September 26.
This walk will cover the nexus of the oldest part of East Falls, where the Ridge Road, Indian Queen Lane, and Midvale Avenue (formerly Mifflin Street) meet. We will cover Ridge Avenue from the 4000s to the 4100s, and up Indian Queen Lane and Midvale to the rail line. Addressing both history and architecture, we will view an 1868 fraternal hall, our modernist fire house, the site of a Woman’s Medical College clinic, a former movie theater, and houses of various ages and styles, including some grander forms of the Philadelphia row house on Ridge Avenue. We will also touch on what is no longer present, and the need for preservation of what is.
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The Friends of 2125 Chestnut Street present CELEBRATING! THE LAFARGE ROSE WINDOW RETURNS Saturday, September 25, 2021
The First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
MARY ANNE’S NOTE: to the best of my knowledge no preregistration for any of the events that follow is required. I have tried to get in touch with the organizers for several weeks, but none of my emails have been answered.
Schedule for the Day
10:00 Doors open to the Exhibits
(Furness “Faith and Form”, Felton Family, Window Restoration)
11:00 First Tours of Churches and Neighbors
First Unitarian, Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, nearby Furness residences (street view only)
11:30 Second Tours of Church and Neighbors CFI Corporate Center (22nd & Chestnut) College of Physicians (Historic areas)
1:00 Welcomes
The Rev Abbey Tennis, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church Luana Goodwin, President, Friends of 2125 Chestnut Street
1:15 Talks
Michael J Lewis, Architectural Historian, Author “Modern Color: LaFarge and Furness at First Unitarian”
2:15 Carol Parker, President, Felton Family Association “Samuel Morse Felton and the Baltimore Plot”*
2:30 Kathy Jordan, Director of Art Development, Willet Hauser “The Historic Restoration of the LaFarge Window”
3:30 Joe Lex, Informal Curator, Laurel Hill Cemetery “Furness at Rest”
Also
Final Tours of Church and Neighbors
First Unitarian, College of Physicians, Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, nearby Furness residences (street view only)
5:00 Brief Vespers
The John LaFarge-designed stained glass rose window “Isaiah” is a memorial to Samuel and Cornelius Felton
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Society of Architectural Historians Southern California Chapter presents AUTHORS ON ARCHITECTURE: ARAUJO ON KNOLL Zoom Presentation
Sunday, September 26,2021, 11:00 AM Pacific, 2:00 PM EASTERN
Cost: $5.00; go to www.sahscc.org to pay via PayPal; Zoom connection information sent upon registration.
Join SAH/SCC as we welcome Dr. Ana Arujo to talk about her new book, No Compromise: The Work of Florence Knoll (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021). Florence Knoll Bassett (1917-2019) was a leading force of modern design. From 1943-1965, she worked at what became Knoll International. She and her first husband, Hans Knoll, were business partners. After his passing, she became design director.
Knoll invented the visual language of the modern office through her groundbreaking interiors and the “Knoll look,” which has become a classic interior design style. Her commissions became hallmarks of the modern era, including the Womb and Tulip chairs by Eero Saarinen, the Diamond Chair by Harry Bertoia, and the Platner Collection by Warren Platner.
The book, named after Knolls motto, “No compromise, ever” explores her fascinating career and the legacy her work has left on design and the modern movement.
Ana Araujo, PhD, is an architect, teacher and researcher. She has led design studio at the Architectural Association in London from 2010 to 2021 and is now on a sabbatical year. Araujo has lectured and published internationally. Please note the early start time, as Dr. Araujo will be joining us from London.
Authors on Architecture: Araujo on Knoll, Sunday, September 26, 2021; 11:00 AM PST;
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Enjoy!
Mary Anne
If at any time you no longer wish to be on the list please let me know at info@philachaptersah.org and I will remove your address within eight business days.
Mary Anne Eves
Program Committee & Board Member, Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians www.philachaptersah.org
SAH Needs YOU! Join the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and help us promote and preserve our architectural history and heritage. Here’s a link to join today https://philachaptersah.org/index.php/membership/
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Judson Studio Exhibit at Forest Lawn Museum
Saturday, August 28th, 2021, 10:30AM-12:30PM PST
Get out your masks! We’re going for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Judson Studios exhibit at the Forest Lawn Museum. And as thanks to our loyal members, we’re giving you priority access to tickets!
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Judson Studio Exhibit at Forest Lawn Museum
Saturday, August 28th, 2021, 10:30AM-12:30PM PST
Get out your masks! We’re going for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Judson Studios exhibit at the Forest Lawn Museum. And as thanks to our loyal members, we’re giving you priority access to tickets!
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Judson Studio Exhibit at Forest Lawn Museum
Saturday, August 28th, 2021, 10:30AM-12:30PM PST
Get out your masks! We’re going for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Judson Studios exhibit at the Forest Lawn Museum. Judson Studios has been one of the most important art-glass studios for more than 100 years.
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Subject:Growing Up Modern, Inquirer Building and Much More [g4]
The Society of Architectural Historians Southern California Chapter
Authors on Architecture Lecture Series presents GROWING UP MODERN Saturday, August 21st, 2021, 1:00 PM Pacific Time/4:00 PM Eastern Time
FREE; email us at info@sahscc.org to sign up.
Please mention “Growing up Modern” in the subject line of your email.
Ever wondered how growing up in modern architecture affects children, the adults they become, and society? If you have, this is the program for you!. Please join SAH/SCC as we welcome authors Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster who will discuss their new book, Growing up Modern: Childhoods In Iconic Homes (Birkhauser, 2021).
This new book explores questions we have all wondered about. What was it like to grow up in a Modernist residence? Did these radical environments shape the way that children looked at architecture later in life? The oral history in this book paints a uniquely intimate portrait of Modernism.
The authors conducted interviews with people, who spent their childhood in radical Modernist domestic spaces, uncovering both serene and poignant memories. The recollections range from the ambivalence of philosopher Ernst Tugendhat, now 90 years old, who lived in the famous Mies van der Rohe house in Brno (1930) to the fond reminiscing of the youngest daughter of the Schminke family, who still dreams of her Scharoun-designed ship-like villa in Löbau (1933). The book offers a unique, private and often refreshing perspective on these icons of the avant-garde.
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The Association of Preservation Technology-Delaware Valley Chapter invites you to a virtual program THE INQUIRER BUILDING RESTORATION, A CASE STUDY Thursday, August 26th at 5:00 PM.
Free, registration required at https://www.apt-dvc.org/aptdvc-events/2021/8/26/the-inquirer-building-restoration-a-case-study
Click on the link next to “Source” to register
Completed in 1924, the iconic Inquirer Building, originally known as the Elverson Building, stood as the tallest building north of City Hall. A monument to journalism, this terra cotta clad, Beaux-Arts beauty has housed the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News over the last century. Recently, it’s restoration was in preparation of its adaptive reuse into the Philadelphia Police Department Headquarters. Join up for a recap of the restoration by members of the project team from USA Architects, and O’Donnell Naccarato. This program is worth 1.00 LU, and is free with registration.
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Design Advocacy Group presents SEPTA, MOVING FORWARD with Leslie Richards, SEPTA General Manager & CEO
Monday, Aug 30, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Free, registration required at https://designadvocacy.org/events/septa-movingforward
The reshaping of transportation as SEPTA has moved out of the pandemic mode, the accelerated use of technology and an update on the new wayfinding master plan.
Leslie S. Richards is the 11th General Manager/Chief Executive Officer of Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), where she oversees a budget of more than $2 billion and 9,500 employees. As the sixth largest public transportation agency in the U.S., SEPTA operates across six transportation modes and has 2,800 vehicles in service, 285 subway and rail stations, 13,000 bus and trolley stops, and 150 routes. Prior to joining SEPTA in 2020, Ms. Richards served as the first woman secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), one of the largest and most innovative transportation agencies in the U.S. A staunch advocate for women and diversity in transportation and government, Ms. Richards has been recognized for her leadership in the industry and commitment to public service. Ms. Richards earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and urban studies from Brown University and a master’s degree in regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
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SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m.
Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia present MODERN SPACES OF ELECTRIC LIGHT by Sandy Isenstadt, Professor and Chair, History of Modern Architecture, University of Delaware and author of Electric Light: An Architectural History (MIT Press 2018)
This will be an in-person event. Registration information will be available shorty.
Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape when it was introduced in the late-nineteenth century. It was a new and uniquely modern kind of building material, generating new sorts of spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. This talk will review several such spaces—from automobile headlights to factory lighting to wartime mandated blackouts—in order to construct an architectural modernism centered on the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.
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Many of you on this list are or were Foundation for Architecture/Center City District/Landmarks Tours and/or Preservation Alliance Architectural Walking Tour Guides, as was Joe Haro. Sadly Joe passed away in May 2020, and now that most Covid restrictions have been lifted his family has planned a memorial service
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A CELEBRATION OF LIFE IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH HARO Thursday, October 7, 2021, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Reception to Follow
Camden County College, Lincoln Hall, Blackwood Campus, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ
Please RSVP to mdaly@camdencc.edu
by Thursday, September 23
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year. We are happy to be able to announce this service honoring Joe and thank Camden County College for making the arrangements and holding it onsite at a place that meant so much to Joe.
Feel free to share this with other friends and colleagues of Joe’s as I am using a list of people that responded over the last 15 months to the Forever Missed and Joe Haro Memorial emails and may miss some.
If you would like to speak at Joe’s memorial please include that in your RSVP. Arrangements will be made to accommodate as many friends and family as reasonably possible. Thank you to all those who wish to share.
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Enjoy!
Mary Anne
Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia present MODERN SPACES OF ELECTRIC LIGHT by Sandy Isenstadt, Professor and Chair, History of Modern Architecture, University of Delaware and author of Electric Light: An Architectural History (MIT Press 2018)
Wednesday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m.
This will be an in-person event at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 219 S. 6th Street.
Free for Phila SAH members & Athenaeum members, $10 all others
Preregistration required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-spaces-of-electric-light-with-sandy-isenstadt-tickets-168334654483
Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape when it was introduced in the late-nineteenth century. It was a new and uniquely modern kind of building material, generating new sorts of spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. This talk will review several such spaces—from automobile headlights to factory lighting to wartime mandated blackouts—in order to construct an architectural modernism centered on the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.
*************************************************** A LANDMARK OF BRAZILIAN MODERNISM IS THREATENED
The government of Brazil plans to sell the former Ministry of Education Building in Rio de Janeiro by Lucio Costa, with Oscar Niemeyer, Roberto Burle Marx, and Le Corbusier as advisor.
DOCOMOMO Brazil will archive the files. The list of supporters will appear on the DOCOMOMO International site.
MANIFESTO AGAINST THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE OLD HEADQUARTERS
OF THE BRAZILIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Via the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Labor and Welfare, the Bolsonaro Government wants to privatize a group of properties belonging to the Union. The “star of the auction” is the Palacio Capanema, which was headquarters of the Ministry of Education until the capital was transferred to Brasília. An initiative of Gustavo Capanema, Minister of Education and Health of the Vargas Government, it is remarkable for its aesthetic, technical, landscape and urban innovations. A landmark of modern architecture in Brazil and in the world, it is an internationally recognized masterpiece of 20th century art.
An exceptionally gifted team worked on the design and construction of the Ministry from 1936 to 1945. The architects were Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Jorge Moreira, Carlos Leão and Ernani Vasconcellos. Le Corbusier briefly served as a consultant. Its gardens were designed by Burle Marx, interior panels by Portinari, carpets by Niemeyer, sculptures by Bruno Giorgi, Adriana Janacópulos, Lipchitz and Celso Antônio. The structural engineer was Emilio Baumgart. IPHAN – Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage – listed the Ministry in 1948. Outstanding universal value justifies its inclusion in the list submitted by Brazil for UNESCO World Heritage Site nomination.
The building retained its significance after the capital moved. It continued to shelter units from the culture sector, some from IPHAN itself- like a UNESCO-associated Heritage School serving South America and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Auditorium, exhibition gallery, library, and even the stilts under the gallery kept hosting activities and events relevant to specialists as well as to a general audience. In 2017, the building was closed for urgent restoration. Units moved to rented spaces. It was hoped that they would return after the restoration was complete, and the building would regain its status as a Palace of Culture open to all: a place for study, research, dialogue, and public gatherings, a persistent symbol of progressive, beautiful, and generous modernity, in Brazil and abroad.
But that may not come to pass. The building is under siege, as if it were just a vacant, ordinary office slab. This is a preposterous proposition, since the Palacio Capanema is an icon of incalculable value only momentarily closed for the rehabilitation of its halls, walks, and gardens. The old Ministry of Education and Culture is no white elephant. It embodies memories of the past and hopes for the future, because of what it represents and allows, touristic uses included. Privatizing the renovated palace and its square would show an embarrassing lack of education and culture, a false sense of economy, and frightening improvidence configuring a crime against national and world heritage.
Crimes of this sort cannot be covered-up, only prevented or punished.
The Capanema is ours.
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Enjoy!
Mary Anne
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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.
Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District Main Library
Authors on Architecture:
Parsons on Colcord
Saturday, July 24th, 2021, 1PM PST
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…
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
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…
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.
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 Schoolis 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.
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.
SAH MDR Board of Directors (as of June 2021)
Chris Bell (Salem, President)
Jenni Pace (Vancouver, Vice President)
Ahsha Miranda (Portland, Secretary)
Tim Askin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Treasurer)
Amanda C. Roth Clark (Spokane, Past President)
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner (Seattle, Washington Regional Delegate)
Phillip Mead (Moscow, Idaho Regional Delegate)
Jim Buckley (Portland, Oregon Regional Delegate)
TBD (British Columbia Regional Delegate)
Richard L. Dorman, FAIA:
An Audacious Modernism
Saturday, July 17th, 2021, 1PM PST
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…
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:
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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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.
Find more information about the entire Parkway Ideas Workshop here: https://www.phlparkway.com/
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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
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…
SAH MDR Chapter Business Meeting Invitation to Members
Please join the Board of the PNW Marion Dean Ross Chapter of the SAH for our annual business meeting for members! If you’re a member you are welcome and encouraged to join us. This normally occurs during our annual conference, during a hosted sandwich lunch — join us this year on zoom to hear about all our upcoming events and have a voice in those decisions.
Amanda Roth Clark, SAH MDR President, 2019-2021
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)
13 June 2021 SAH MDR Chapter Board Member Celebration
Hello friends!
Today I bid you my farewell as president as I transition to the not-so-distant role as past-president of the SAH MDR Pacific Northwest Chapter. See my remarks below.
I will see you at the annual general business meeting for the SAH MDR Chapter, to be held virtually this Friday, June 18th, 1pm-2pm pacific.
Amanda Roth Clark, SAH MDR President, 2019-2021
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.
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.
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.
Fred Clarke, Primacy of Petronas Towers
Bill Baker, Burj Khalifa: What We Learned
Authors on Architecture:
Moses on Henry L.A. Jekel
Saturday, June 12th, 2021, 1PM PST
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.
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.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY CHAPTER
of the Society of Architectural Historians
News | June 2021
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:
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 proposalson 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.
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)
The California Garden and Landscape History Society‘s journal Edenrecently 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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Call for Papers: Landscapes in the Making
Organized by the Dumbarton OaksGarden 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.
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)
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.
Below are the SAH regional chapter news updates received by the liaison during the month of May 2021.
-Amanda Roth Clark
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS MARION DEAN ROSS / PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
2 May 2021
Celebrating SAH MDR Chapter Board Members
Today we are celebrating outgoing past president, Diana Painter. We were able to honor Diana’s service at the annual regional conference (the last one in person!) in June of 2019. Diana has left a lasting mark on the chapter and we benefit from her years of dedicated service.
Reminderto chapter members to hold the date for Friday, June 18th, 1pm to 2pm, for a virtual (zoom) SAH MDR Chapter business meeting (where we will hear more about the 2021 fall paper session and the 2022 in-person conference. All are welcome!
-Amanda Roth Clark, SAH MDR President, 2019-2021
Center image courtesy of Diana Painter
Diana J. Painter, PhD, is the owner of Painter Preservation, a full-service historic preservation firm that she founded in 2002 after working for twenty years in urban design and urban planning in the Northwest, California, and the Northeast. Additional work experience includes five years as National Register and Survey Coordinator for the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.
Dr. Painter studied architectural design in the graduate programs of the University of Washington and University of Pennsylvania before earning her PhD in 1990 in architectural history at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, England. She also holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning and a Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Washington and a BA in interdisciplinary design from Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington.
Diana has been the recipient of numerous awards for her preservation activities and research, including research fellowships for study in Sheffield, England and Rome, Italy, as well as awards for her preservation leadership in Sonoma County, California. Today Painter Preservation has offices in Spokane, Washington and Santa Rosa, California. Diana served on the SAHMDR chapter board for nearly a decade, with six years as president, and two as past president. As president she had the opportunity to visit some great PNW venues with like-minded architectural historians! What could be better?
Other public service includes four years on the Sonoma County Landmarks Commission and recently, three years on the Spokane Plan Commission. She currently serves as the president of the Spokane Preservation Advocates. She is additionally active in numerous professional organizations, including the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation and the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Dr. Painter shares her passion for historic preservation and urban design through community and professional activities and teaching, speaking, and writing about urban and architectural history.
SAH MDR Board of Directors (current until June 2021)
Amanda C. Roth Clark (Spokane, President)
Chris Bell (Salem, Vice President)
Kathryn Burk-Hise (Worley, Secretary)
Mimi Sheridan (Monterey, Treasurer)
Diana Painter (Spokane, Past President)
Phil Gruen (Pullman, Washington Regional Delegate)
Phillip Mead (Moscow, Idaho Regional Delegate)
Jim Buckley (Portland, Oregon Regional Delegate)
Jenni Pace (Vancouver, British Columbia Regional Delegate)
Our mailing address is:
645 Laurel Avenue, No. 3
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Dear SAH-NY Metropolitan chapter,
Please find attached here our calendar of NY-area events for May. Most events are virtual, but we have color-coded those that are in-person, for your reference. To have an event listed on a future calendar, please email: jon.ritter@nyu.edu
Best regards, from, —Jon Ritter
Authors on Architecture:
Buckner on Cambridge Modernist,
David Wyn Roberts
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021, 1PM PST
SAH/SCC member and author Cory Bucker discusses the work of David Wyn Roberts in Cambridge, England with never before seen materials…
From: Phila Chapter SAH Info <info@philachaptersah.org> Date: May 6, 2021 at 5:04:54 PM PDT Subject:Help Philly Museums & Science Behind Climate Solutions [g4]
THE WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE NEED YOUR VOTES
Last month The Reading Terminal Market beat out 10 other public markets in the US to win USA Today’s 2021 Best Public Market award. As of Monday, the Wagner Free Institute of Science was ranked #3 in USA Today’s 2021 Best Free Museum competition and The Franklin Institute was ranked #5 in the 2021 Best Science Museum category. From now until the end of the voting period on Monday, May 10, the results will be hidden. Let’s all vote once a day from now to Monday to put both of these deserving museums at the top!
REMEMBER VOTE ONCE A DAY FROM NOW THROUGH MONDAY, BE PHILLY PROUD!
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The Delaware County Institute of Science PRESENTS THE SCIENCE BEHIND CLIMATE SOLUTIONS – FOOD & AGRICULTURE Thursday, May 27, at 7:30 PM
free and open to all to attend. Pre-registration is required. Learn more at: https://sites.google.com/view/drawdowndcis/schedule/food
The Delaware County Institute of Science (DCIS) is continuing with its discussions on Zoom about efforts by scientists and everyday people to reverse global warming, themed along the solutions developed by Project Drawdown. The session on will have two panelists that will discuss topics ranging from the impact of water on the global food system and the use of satellite/drone technologies, to farming energy and biogas.
The Delaware County Institute of Science (DCIS) was founded in 1833 by five Quaker men: Dr. George Smith, John Cassin, Minshall Painter, George Miller, Jr., and John Miller. The mission of this organization was to diffuse knowledge to the general public, by establishing a natural history museum and a lending library. For almost 200 years DCIS has been managed and maintained by volunteers. Its permanent home is located in the 1867 building located at the corners of Jasper Street and Veterans Square in Media, PA. For more info visit https://www.delcoscience.org/
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Enjoy!
Mary Anne
If at any time you no longer wish to be on the list please let me know at info@philachaptersah.org or ffaphila@hotmail.com and I will remove your address within eight business days.
Mary Anne Eves
Program Committee & Board Member, Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians www.philachaptersah.org
SAH Needs YOU! Join the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and help us promote and preserve our architectural history and heritage. Here’s a link to join today https://philachaptersah.org/index.php/membership/
Historical Society of Frankford presents
THE HISTORY OF FRANKFORD ARSENAL
by John Buffington
Tuesday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Free via live stream on the Historical Society of Frankford’s Facebook page and YouTube channel
John Buffington will talk about the history of Frankford Arsenal, a National Historic Register site, which also has 9 buildings specifically listed on the Philadelphia Historic Register, from the near-disaster of American military inadequacy in the War of 1812, through base closure in 1971 and privatization in 1977, to current status, threats, and opportunities.
As always, we invite you to comment and post questions in either platform’s comment section, however this time we will do something a little different. At the close we will invite viewers to post questions and comments to be addressed live about the potential for the Historical Society of Frankford to intervene more aggressively in situations like the current lamentable state of Buildings 2 and 3 at the Arsenal. So please stay tuned to the end, especially if you think that we aren’t doing enough on preservation emergencies.”
Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia presents
CELEBRATE GO PUBLIC GARDEN DAYS AT SHOFUSO!
IN PERSON TOUR OF SHOFUSO
Thursday, May 13 – AM Tour 11:30 AM or PM Tour 3:00 PM
Don’t miss the opportunity to join Shofuso Head Gardener Sandi Polyakov for a guided tour of Shofuso, at no additional cost over regular admission to the house and garden! He will guide you through the historical site and traditional elements of Japanese gardens, such as the koi pond, the tea garden, the tsuboniwa and more. No reservation required. Admission to the garden can be purchased in person at Shofuso.
Go Public Gardens Days and Norfolk Botanical Gardens have developed Virtual Garden Profiles. Presented by representatives of two dozen gardens across the country, these Virtual Profiles will give the public a chance to learn about gardens they can visit once travel is more prevalent in the wake of the pandemic. Garden Profiles will be every night during Go Public Gardens Days (May 7-16) and Saturday, starting at 6 PM Eastern. These presentations are free and will be available for viewing after the live presentation.
ELEMENTS OF JAPANESE GARDENS:
guided virtual walkthrough of Shofuso
May 14, 7-8 pm EDT
How do Japanese gardens differ from Western gardens? Learn what makes Japanese gardens unique through this virtual guided tour of Shofuso, with Head Gardener Sandi Polyakov.
The tour will involve the exciting and historic Oley Valley, located in eastern Berks County. Featured will be several “new” barns – ones that have not been on previous tours. This should be enjoyable time for everyone. We will have a separate morning tour and a separate afternoon tour. Both tours will be via a car caravan.
Contact person is Vickie Heffner – 610 413 5543 – Please call soon as we only have space for 15 cars per barn tour.
Greg Huber is a barn and house historian who has recorded over 8,000 historic barns and houses over the past 45 plus years. Barn documentations have included 17 states in the east, areas in Canada and barns on the west coast. Three extended trips to Europe have also included barn, church and cathedral examinations in five countries. For more info or to subscribe to Greg’s Historic Barn News and Events Newsletter visit www.easternbarns.com
If at any time you no longer wish to be on the list please let me know at info@philachaptersah.org or ffaphila@hotmail.com and I will remove your address within eight business days.
Mary Anne Eves
Program Committee & Board Member, Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians www.philachaptersah.org
SAH Needs YOU! Join the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and help us promote and preserve our architectural history and heritage. Here’s a link to join today https://philachaptersah.org/index.php/membership/
SAH Philadelphia Chapter invites you to join us for
Our Annual Member Meeting
Thurs, May 27 at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom
Free, no registration required.
Join Zoom Meeting https://Jefferson.zoom.us/j/98581864459
The brief business meeting will be followed by a talk: ARCHITECTURE CONFRONTING INEQUALITY: SLUM UPGRADING TACTICS IN LATIN AMERICA by Pablo Meninato, PhD
Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, most Latin American countries experienced unprecedented mass migration of impoverished people moving from rural areas to informal settlements located at the urban periphery. Dr. Pablo Meninato will present how several contemporary architects across Latin America have been developing urban interventions that significantly depart from conventional approaches to architecture and planning. He will concentrate on the tactical initiatives developed in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the San Diego-Tijuana border, at the urban periphery of Buenos Aires, and the barrios of Medellin. This research contributes to a forthcoming book, Informality and the City. Theories, actions, interventions.
Pablo Meninato, PhD is an architect, architectural critic, and educator whose research focuses on the conception and development of the architectural project. He has academic degrees from the University of Belgrano at Buenos Aires, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Meninato is the author of Unexpected Affinities (Routledge, 2018), a book that proposes a historical reassessment of the concept of architectural ‘type’ and its impact on the design process. The book examines affinities between tactics of the readymade—as conceived by the artist Marcel Duchamp—and typological displacement. In his current research, Meninato investigates how various contemporary architects are developing new and original urban design tactics that enhance the quality of life in informal settlements across Latin America.Prior to joining Temple University as Associate Professor, Meninato taught and practiced architecture at various academic institutions in the U.S. and Latin America.His essays have been published in various magazines, journals, and books. Together with his collaborator, Dr. Gregory Marinic, Meninato will be publishing two books: Informality and the City. Theories, actions, interventions (Springer, January 2022) and Hopeful Rebar. Informal Urbanism in Mexico City (University of Cincinnati Press, March 2022).
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday July 31, 2021 A WALKING TOUR OF LANCASTER, PA This is an SAH Phila members-only program as space is limited.
Registration info will be announced in early July
For information on becoming an SAH member visit our website https://philachaptersah.org/index.php/membership/
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS MARION DEAN ROSS / PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
16 May 2021
16 May 2021 SAH MDR Chapter Board Member Celebration
Today we honor continuing Idaho regional delegate Phil Mead. Thank you for your ongoing service!
Amanda Roth Clark, SAH MDR President, 2019-2021
Celebrating SAH MDR Chapter Board MembersAssociate Professor Phillip Mead of the University of Idaho teaches classes in architectural history, architecture introduction, and design studio.
A native of Twin Falls, Idaho, Phillip grew up in the otherworldly presence of Shoshone Falls in the Snake River Canyon and the nearby ski resort of Sun Valley. As an adolescent, architectural interest emerged from summers spent with relatives in Chicago during the construction and completion of the Sears Tower. As a late teen through early 20s Phillip worked summers restoring historical buildings in Twin Falls. As a 1984 graduate of the University of Idaho Architecture Program at the end of the recession, Phillip spent 3 ½ years in Marine Corps as a Combat Engineer officer in Virginia and North Carolina with floats in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas that allowed ample port of calls in Italy, Greece, Norway, and Germany.
In the late 1980s, Phillip attended and graduated from the Charles Moore Program at the University of Texas Austin, where the class spent a quarter of the time with Moore touring historic towns and ancient ruins in Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas. The program also worked on design projects in Washington DC and Austin galleries that contributed to Moore’s thinking on his final book Chambers for a Memory Palace. After earning his graduate degree, Phillip worked on the documentation and reconstruction of Bertram Goodhue’s San Diego Panama-California Exhibition’s House of Hospitality Building. Phillip has also contributed as an intern to construction documents of designs by Charles Moore and Antoine Predock.
While working in San Diego, Phillip began his teaching career in the early 90s at the New School of Architecture. Serving part-time as an administrator, he wrote the initial NAAB accreditation report that led to the school’s 1st NAAB accreditation. While in Southern California, he developed an interest in the work and ideas of Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler during California’s environmental health movement. Texas Tech University then lured him away with the promise of pursuing research on architecture’s influence on our health and well-being. While in Lubbock, he designed and helped construct 20 Habitat for Humanity houses.
After five years in Texas, the University of Idaho lured him back to the Northwest, where he earned tenure, then served as chair and program coordinator. Phillip continues his research on architectural health and well-being that integrates well into his modern architecture and intro classes and Design Studios. Over his 28 years teaching career, Phillip has taught well over 30 different required and elective seminar courses. His research is presented internationally to diverse audiences ranging from psychiatrists to historians. His current interests examine well-being in design, encompassing a range of disciplines from architectural history/theory and psychology to environmental control systems.
Image courtesy of of Phil Mead
Annual Award — Deadline Approaching!
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
MARION DEAN ROSS PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
ELISABETH WALTON POTTER RESEARCH AWARDS
Architectural Research Funding: Cultural Landscapes of the Pacific NW
The Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is dedicated to open and informed advocacy for the built environment in the Pacific Northwest, while celebrating and promoting the people and cultures that shape and preserve it.
The Marion Dean Ross Chapter invites applications for the Elisabeth Walton Potter Research Awards. The goal of this award program is to further awareness and knowledge of the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. The chapter will provide limited funds for focused projects that increase understanding of the region’s built environment and produce tangible results (including articles, books, oral histories, podcasts, local exhibitions, etc.) that can be made available for interested scholars and students.
GENERAL INFORMATION
• Awards are available to members of the chapter (please note the student membership is free).
• Award amounts shall be no less than $500.00 and no greater than $2,000.00.
• The Executive Committee of the chapter shall review applications and determine recipient(s) of the award(s).
• Criteria for acceptance include a realistic scope and timeline, as well as demonstration of a strong, original research question.
• Current CV highlighting relevant education and experience.
• Successful recipient(s) of award(s) shall present a summary of work to the membership at the annual meeting of the chapter following completion of the project.
• Deadline for submission of application – May 30, 2021.
• Date for awarding of grants – June 14, 2021.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Please use the following format when applying for the award:
1. NAME of applicant with full contact information.
2. PROJECT NAME: A short descriptive title for the project.
3. DESCRIPTION: Briefly describe the project, including the genesis, purpose, and need. Explain its contribution to the understanding of architecture in the Pacific Northwest. If site specific, describe location.
4. PRODUCT: Describe specific anticipated results of the project including, if applicable, quantity, users, accessibility, educational benefits or other pertinent information. Describe how Marion Dean Ross Chapter support will be acknowledged.
5. TIME FRAME: State the estimated length of time to complete the project with anticipated beginning and end dates.
6. AMOUNT: Specify the amount of money being requested. State the total amount to complete the project. If the amount requested from the Marion Dean Ross Chapter is less than the total, indicate how the remainder will be raised, so that the completion of the project is assured.
7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Successful applicants will be invited to report on their use of the award at a meeting of the Marion Dean Ross Chapter or in one of its publications. Any research project funded fully or in part by the chapter should acknowledge this support in print or verbally, as appropriate. A product (either digital or physical) resulting from chapter support should be deposited in the Marion Dean Ross Chapter Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.
Please submit the application to the chapter president via email (as an attached file) or surface mail. Include contact information – address, phone number(s), email address – with a cover letter or email message.
2019-2021 Chapter President: Dr. Amanda Roth Clark, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd., Spokane, WA 99251, 509-777-4482, amandaclark@whitworth.edu
From: Phila Chapter SAH Info <info@philachaptersah.org> Date: May 22, 2021 at 7:53:55 AM PDT To: ffaphila@hotmail.com Subject:Philadelphia Railroads & Architecture Confronting Inequality [g4] Oliver Evans (Philadelphia) Chapter Society for Industrial Archeology
invites you to our next program PHILADELPHIA RAILROADS presented by Joel Spivak, author & rail historian
Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
The program will be presented through a Zoom meeting.
Pre-registration is required to receive the link to the Zoom meeting.
To register, please send an email indicating your interest to oesiaphila@gmail.com
Philadelphia, “the workshop of the world,” produced locomotives, railcars, interiors, wheels, and tracks. Some of the earliest railroads in the country operated in Philadelphia and left a legacy of treasures around the city.
Take a virtual tour and hear about Joel’s love of the railroad and how he developed a lifelong interest in the subject.
The book, “Philadelphia Railroads,” by Allen Myers and Joel Spivak, is a tribute to Oliver Evans, the inventor of the American “High Pressure Steam Engine.”
Chapter member Joel Spivak is a native of Philadelphia and has had a varied career in architecture and the arts. His community service is legendary, and has benefited neighborhoods all over the city. Projects he was involved in include creating the South Street Renaissance and defeating the Crosstown Expressway in the 1970s, the opening of Rocketships & Accessories space toy store in the ’80s, and winning the “Outstanding Achievement in Design for Affordable Housing” HUD award in the 1990s. He created and managed a Little League baseball team at Sack’s Playground at 5th & Washington in the early ’90s, and has created events for National Hot Dog Month for the past 10 years. In addition, he has written three books on transportation history in Philadelphia. He was awarded “Citizen of the First Rank” by City Council for his lifetime commitment to his neighborhood and the city of Philadelphia.
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SAH Philadelphia Chapter invites you to join us for
The brief business meeting will be followed by a talk:
ARCHITECTURE CONFRONTING INEQUALITY:
SLUM UPGRADING TACTICS IN LATIN AMERICA
by Pablo Meninato, PhD
Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, most Latin American countries experienced unprecedented mass migration of impoverished people moving from rural areas to informal settlements located at the urban periphery. Dr. Pablo Meninato will present how several contemporary architects across Latin America have been developing urban interventions that significantly depart from conventional approaches to architecture and planning. He will concentrate on the tactical initiatives developed in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the San Diego-Tijuana border, at the urban periphery of Buenos Aires, and the barrios of Medellin. This research contributes to a forthcoming book, Informality and the City. Theories, actions, interventions.
Pablo Meninato, PhD is an architect, architectural critic, and educator whose research focuses on the conception and development of the architectural project. He has academic degrees from the University of Belgrano at Buenos Aires, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Meninato is the author of Unexpected Affinities (Routledge, 2018), a book that proposes a historical reassessment of the concept of architectural ‘type’ and its impact on the design process. The book examines affinities between tactics of the readymade—as conceived by the artist Marcel Duchamp—and typological displacement. In his current research, Meninato investigates how various contemporary architects are developing new and original urban design tactics that enhance the quality of life in informal settlements across Latin America. Prior to joining Temple University as Associate Professor, Meninato taught and practiced architecture at various academic institutions in the U.S. and Latin America. His essays have been published in various magazines, journals, and books. Together with his collaborator, Dr. Gregory Marinic, Meninato will be publishing two books: Informality and the City. Theories, actions, interventions (Springer, January 2022) and Hopeful Rebar. Informal Urbanism in Mexico City (University of Cincinnati Press, March 2022).
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Enjoy!
Mary Anne
Society of Architectural Historians,
Turpin Bannister Chapter
Upstate New York and Western New England
Dear SAH Members,
The SAH invites you to a program at 6 PM on Tuesday, June 15, 2021:
Diana Waite will speak about her recent book,
The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An illustrated History.
At the University Club, 141 Washington Avenue, Albany.
Meet the speaker at 5:30, program at 6 PM.
Waite is well known to SAH Members as the head of Mount Ida Press and editor of the classic and important book Albany Architecture from 1993.
The Troy book is also important, and fascinating as well; it is illustrated with many historic illustrations and contemporary photos by Gary Gold.
As you know, our Architectural Historians chapter, the Turpin Bannister Chapter, is a part of the international Society of Architectural Historians. The international society presents several awards each year for distinguished publications in architectural History…The Architecture of Downtown Troy has just been awarded The Antoinette Forester Downing award for excellence in a published work devoted to historical topics in preservation.
Other SAH News: As you know, we have curtailed most of our Fall 2020 and spring 2021 programs because of the pandemic, and this will be our only in person presentation this spring. We hope you were able to enjoy Wally Wheeler’s Zoom presentation on the Ten Broeck Mansion which we co-sponsored with the ACHA. We will resume our regular schedule in the fall.
As a part of the recent SAH National conference, I was able to participate in a Zoom discussion with other SAH Chapter members from around the country.
Since most of our expenses go towards programs, and we have not had many in the past year, 2021 dues are voluntary. If you wish you may make a contribution for 2021, please send it to our new Treasurer, Sean McCullough, 804 Grayson Place, Glenville NY 12302..[ If you re also a National member, you may have paid our dues when you paid National Dues.]
WE are looking forward to the fall program and already have some ideas we had worked on last year such as a visit to the Huguenot Houses in New Palz, and a presentation on the Stave churches in Slovakia. We also hope to again co-sponsor a program for DOCOMOMO Day in the Fall.
Authors on Architecture:
Moses on Henry L.A. Jekel
Saturday, June 12th, 2021, 1PM PST
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.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY CHAPTER
of the Society of Architectural Historians
SAH 2022 Pittsburgh Call for Papers: Landscape Open Session
Deadline approaching…
SAH 2022 Annual Conference
Call for Papers, Landscape Open Session
In light of the deepening environmental crisis, our critical engagement with the landscapes and built environments of the past has become ever more important. Papers are invited that consider the analytical frameworks that we use for the study of landscape history and that specifically illuminate those perspectives as purposeful ways of seeing and understanding. The perspectives may address labor, craft, environmental management, botanical exchanges, economics, knowledge systems, symbolic meaning, allegory, New Materialism, post-humanism, and other aspects of the historic environment.
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS MARION DEAN ROSS / PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
30 May 2021
30 May 2021 SAH MDR Chapter Board Member Celebration
Hello friends!
You are not mistaken, I did indeed skip over the weekend last week; I was attending three in-person, masked and distanced graduation ceremonies for Whitworth graduates for 2020 and 2021 — exhausting but marvelous.
In the coming days I will be sending out a zoom invite for our annual general business meeting for the SAH MDR Chapter, to be held virtually Friday, June 18th, 1pm-2pm pacific.
Today we honor continuing Oregon regional delegate Jim Buckley. Thank you for your ongoing service!
Amanda Roth Clark, SAH MDR President, 2019-2021
Image courtesy of of Jim Buckley
Celebrating SAH MDR Chapter Board MembersJames (Jim) Buckley teaches in the historic preservation program at the University of Oregon. Jim started at UO in 2016 and his first task was to move the preservation program from the main campus in Eugene to the university’s satellite campus in Portland, where it has thrived in the city’s active development environment. He taught previously in the urban planning programs at UC Berkeley and MIT. Jim got his start by studying architectural history with Vincent Scully at Yale and later received a Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning and a PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley.
Jim had a first career in affordable housing, working with a major nonprofit housing builder in the San Francisco Bay Area and then starting his own organization, Citizens Housing Corporation. He developed all kinds of low-income housing, including first-time homebuyer, senior, family, and supportive housing for the unhoused.
Jim is a board member of SAH, where he serves on the financial committee, and is the incoming President of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF). Jim is particularly interested in vernacular architecture because it provides an opportunity to learn about how average folks have lived over time. His book, “City of Wood: San Francisco and Redwood Lumber Industry, 1850-1929” will be published by the University of Texas Press as soon as he can get the images he needs from archives closed by COVID.
Jim’s recent work investigates opportunities to expand preservation activity to reflect the diversity of the American population. He is very involved with VAF’s new African American Fieldwork Initiative; he recently received funding from the Mellon Foundation to carry out research with members of the African American community in the historically-Black neighborhood of Albina in Portland.
THIS SUNDAY!An Unlikely Modernism:Bakersfield BuiltSunday, March 27th, 1:00 PM PSTBakersfield? Learn the story behind why there is a significant body of good modern architecture in the Kern County hamlet. Can’t make it? Purchase a ticket and we will send you a recording to watch at your leisure!Buy a ticket now…
43rd Annual Student Symposium — 4/9Please join us for our 43rd Annual Student Symposium!
NEW EVENT!Authors on Architecture:Oest on Los Angeles Public Housing
NEW EVENT!Authors on Architecture:Oest on Los Angeles Public Housing
Call for Editors of Arris, the Journal of SESAH deadline extended until March 1SESAH (Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians) seeks an Editor or Co-editors, and a Book Review Editor for three issues (2023-25) of its peer-reviewed journal, Arris. Scholars and researchers are invited to respond to this call by March 1, 2022. Editorial positions are unpaid and would begin with work on volume 34 (2023) during the summer of 2022 and end with the completion of volume 36 (2025). One of these issues may be based on a theme, chosen by the Editors and approved by the Arris Editorial Committee, that addresses particular theories, methodologies, or perspectives in the history and/or preservation of the built environment.
NEW EVENT!Authors on Architecture:Oest on Los Angeles Public Housing
Raymond Loewy was one of America’s greatest industrial designers, enjoying a career that spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s. He started his design career in America as an illustrator for magazines, soon establishing himself as one of the premier Art Deco artists working in New York. Within a few years, Loewy felt a desire to branch out into designing products and began his industrial design career with a Deco makeover of a duplicating machine. John Wall, author of “Streamliner,” a Loewy biography, will take us through Loewy’s early Art Deco designs and trace the influence of that movement into later designs such as locomotives and a ferry for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Sears Coldspot refrigerators. Wall’s program will also introduce the audience to Loewy’s groundbreaking work with Studebaker and International Harvester, and his corporate logos and other work.About the PresenterJohn Wall is the author of Streamliner: Raymond Loewy and Imagemaking in the Age of American Industrial Design, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2018 and due out this year in paperback. Wall started his career as a journalist, and more recently worked for over two decades as a media relations professional at Penn State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and at Juniata College. As a journalist, he reported on advertising and design, sparking an interest in Loewy’s work, which eventually resulted in authoring Streamliner. Wall is currently retired in Altoona, Pa., where he lives with his wife, Sharon. $11/ADSW Member, $16/Non-MemberMonday, February 21, 20226:30 PM EDT 
4) Annual Meeting / Directors’ NightSAVE THE DATE: Monday, March 7, 2022 — 7:00pm
SESAH Conference 2022 Call For Papers The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) will host its 40th annual conference in Memphis, Tennessee, from November 2-5, 2022. As with all SESAH conferences, papers, and sessions focused on such themes as the Landscapes and Architectural Resources of the Civil Rights Movement, Landscapes/Architecture of Minority Communities, Post-World War II Architecture in the American South, Twentieth Century Urban Planning in the American South, and the Legacy of the Southern Music Industry on the Cultural Landscape. We also expect sessions on subjects related to European, Historic, Medieval, and Southern Architecture. 
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Be sure to join us for another dynamic lecture by scholar and historian Christopher Long from University of Texas at Austin, as he turns his attention to the little-known architect and designer Jock Peters (1889-1934). Long’s new book, Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism (Bauer and Dean, 2021), is the first monograph on the acclaimed architect and designer. 
Join SAH/SCC for a virtual program with author and filmmaker Peter Wyeth, whose string of discoveries excavated from the most fragmentary evidence has uncovered the architecture career of perhaps the leading South African painter, Jean Welz. The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz (DoppelHouse, 2022) chronicles the mystery of Welz’s virtual absence in the architectural record and Wyeth’s decade-long quest, which gradually assembled an extraordinary picture of Welz’s twelve years in Paris. 
Join us on a virtual trolley adventure that will take you through time and space, from the Native American settlement at Indian Hill Club, through Winnetka’s historic business district, to the scenic Skokie Lagoons, and lastly to fascinating sites along Sheridan Road.
Winnetka Historical SocietyPO Box 365Winnetka, IL 60093847-446-0001
Authors on Architecture:Chris Long on Jock Peters
Authors on Architecture:Chris Long on Jock Peters
The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz:Peter Wyeth
2022 NESAH FellowshipsThe New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians invites applications for the Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship and the John Coolidge Research Fellowship. More information about each, and application details, can be found on our 
Authors on Architecture:Ettinger on Neutra in Latin America
Last Chance to Sign Up!Ettinger on Neutra in Latin America
Purchase a link to a 2021 Zoom ProgramSee what you missed!
