NEWSLETTER of the SOCIETY of ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS February 2005 Vol.XLIX No.1 ANNUAL MEETING SPEAKERS AN D SESSION CHAIRS FROM OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA Register Early and Save Money This list is provided fo r the benefit of institutions that may wish to Don't forget to register early for the upcoming arrange speaking engagements with the following scholars who will SAH Annual Meeting in Vancouver (April 6- be traveling from Europe, Africa, Asia and elsewhere fo r the SAH ro, 2005). Those who register early and stay at meeting in Vancouver. Contact information is available through the SAH office. the historic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver will save $wo on the registration fees.
Anstey, Timothy. Royal Institute ofTechnology. Stockholm Aureli. Pier Vittorio [Berlage Institute, Amsterdam] Baird, Kingsley, Massey University SAH invites its members and colleagues to Bauer, C. Isabel, UniversitiH Kassel attend the Society's 58th Annual Meeting in Bedard, Jean·Frans:ois, J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, Paris Vancouver, British Columbia, April 6-10, 2005. In Bertels. lnge. [Katholieke Universiteit Leuven] addition to the 125 scholarly paper presentations, Cavanagh. Ted, Dalhousie Un iversity meeting participants will be offered an expanded Chabard, Pierre. Ecole d'Architecture, Marne-la-Vallee array of free receptions, evening lectures, archi Correia, Jorge, Un iversity of Minho, Portugal tectural and landscape tours, and a two-day Croft. Catherine, The Twentieth Century Society study tour to the Provincial capital, Victoria. Geerts, Filip, Delft University of Technology Brochures detailing the Annual Meeting were Grillner, Katja, Royal Institute ofTechnology, Stockhol m mailed in January. For additional co pies or Hellstrom, Maria, Swedish Life Science University, Alnarp, Sweden questions regarding the meeting, please contact Hinchcliffe, Tanis. University of Westminster [email protected] Hughes. Rolf, Royal Institute ofTechnology, Stockholm the SAH office at 312.573.1365 or Huppert, Ann, Worcester College, Oxford We hope to see you in Vancouver. King, Stuart. [The University of Queensland] Klaiber, Susan, Winterthur, Switzerland - Pauline Saliga, Executive Director Kuroishi, Izumi, Aoyamagakuin Women's Junior College Lai, Chee-Kien, [U niversity of California, Berkeley] . National University of Singapore Lebas. Elizabeth, Middlesex University Legault, Rejean, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Lending, Maria, (Oslo School of Architecture] Lu, Duanfa ng. University of Sydney SAH Lung. David , University of Hong Kong Newsletter Malathouni, Christina, [University of London] 2 Millette, Daniel M. . lnstitut de Recherche sur !'Architecture Antique, Universite Calendar of Up coming Events de Prove nce Study Tours Planned for 2005: Molema, Jan, Technische Universiteit. Delft Arts and Crafts Architecture in Pasadena, 4-7 May Morkoc, Selen B., [University of Adelaide] Nitzan-Shiftan, Alana, Technion. Haifa 2005 Oshima, Ken, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures SAH Summer Seminar on Chicago Architecture, Peters, Walter, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Du rban, South Africa 27 June- 3 July 2005 Petrovic, Emina, Victoria University of Well ington The History and Architecture of Quebec City, ro-13 Proctor, Robert, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art August 2005 Pullan. Wendy, University of Cambridge Coastal Maine Architecture, 12-17 September 2005 Roccasecca, Pietro, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome The Architecture and Culture of South India, 28 Santa-Ana, Lucia, National Autonomous University of Mexico December 2005 - r8 January 2006 Santa-Ana, Perla, National Autonomous University of Mexico Schmitdt. Freek. Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam Future Annual Meetings: Scriver, Peter, University of Adelaide Vancouver, B.ritish Columbia, 6-ro April 2005 Siram, Zeynep Akture, [Middle East Technical University] Savannah, Georgia, 26-29 April 2oo6 Sterken, Sven, Ghent University, Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastrict Tobe, Renee, University of Nottingham International Symposium: van lmpe, Ellen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Changing Boundaries: Architectural History in Transition, Paris, 1-4 September 2005 An Historic Overview of Vancouver enterprise, and the millennia! expansion of Vancouver as both port and safe haven for capital and lifestyle evidenced In 1912, at the zenith of the first surge of construction in by monumental Canadian Pacific Railway stations and Vancouver, often called Terminal City, a local newspaper hotels. The ori ginal wooden Queen Anne was replaced by editor invented the mythical character of Lady Vancouver. masonry Scots Baronial and Edwardian Classical struc She supposedly signified Vancouver's status as both tures, followed by the third railway station, now the Sea "world's end" and "world" city. That duality has only Bus Terminal (Barratt and Blackader 1912-14) and a fourth increased with the later economic growth of the Canadian hotel, the present Fairmont Hotel Vancouver (Archibald west, the eventual constitutional independence of the and Schofield 1929-37) and site of the 2005 SAH Annual Canadian Confederation, the interdependence of Asian and Meeting. Pacific-Rim economies with their diverse patterns of Still, the earliest distinctive Vancouver architecture migration, and the emergence of radical sensibilities emerged from these styles, in the prefabricated housing toward the environment and ethnicity. manufactured by B.C. Mills, the self-build craftsmen Jet flight and the electronic media (extensively studied homes of the Kitsilano area and most notably in the elite by the Canadian theorists Harold Innis and Marshall residences designed by Samuel Maclure and his assistant McLuhan) have repositioned Vancouver more centrally in Cecil Fox. Whereas the commercial architecture around the post-imperial global system. The city has remade its the first town site, named Gas town after one of its original architectural image from one that relied on British, denizens, copied the Chicago commercial style was promi· European and U.S. urban precedents to the innovation of nent in Tacoma and Seattle, the design of the govern men· urban form that is as technologically advanced as it is aes tal and Bank and Trust company offices gravitated toward thetically sophisticated. In the late 196os, the original imperial Eclecticism and Classicism. The Post Office town site (incorporated in 1886) along the final section of (Department of Public Works, 1905-ro), Carnegie Library the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway (opened in (G.W. Grant, 1902-03) and main branches of the Bank of r888) was preserved at the same time that the autojfreeway Montreal (K.G. Rea, 1924-25), Imperial Bank of Commerce centered town planning model was rejected. Nonetheless (Da rling and Pearson, r9o6-o8) or Toronto Dominion one of that model's champions, Victor Gruen, contributed (Somervell and Putnam, r919·20) represented the preva to the early proliferation of peripheral shopping malls and lent marriage of technical modernization wi th historical helped design Pacific Centre, the High Modernist retail iconography. The Sun Tower (W.T. Whiteway, I9II·I2), complex completed in downtown Vancouver between 1969 which for several decades was the tallest structure in the and 1976. British Empire, combined modern steel construction and The defeat of the Expressway also curtailed the federal pollution resistant terracotta brick with a grand columnar public housing project in Strathcona (1958-68) as well as entrance. The Classical Orders or the Gothic tracery used February 2005 the pace of large-scale speculative redevelopment in the in such churches as Christ Church Cathedral (C.O. business district around the main thoroughfares of the grid Wickenden, r889-95) opposite the conference hotel and in 3 intersected by Burrard, Granville, Georgia and Robson the ori ginal scheme for the University of British Columbia Streets. The exception was the West End, sandwiched (Sharp and Thompson, 1913) represented the use of sym between the commercial center and Stanley Park. Once bolic design language typical of a colonial regime. the preserve of wealthier immigrants, the West End has Allegiance to Great Britain resulted in high enlistment become a high-density area of high-and-low-rise rental and and casualties of Canadians in the First World War. That condominium structures since the 1956 revocation of laws stunted the British Columbia and Vancouver economies restricting the height of buildings. Its variegated configu· despite a brief pre-Depression boom in the late 1920s. ration and appearance reflect the power of real estate Then United States architectural influence predominated, investment in civic affairs·· Rudya rd Kipling being among resulting in Canadian buildings of every popular American the early investors ·· and its vibrant resistance at the popu· style from Spanish Revival to Art Deco. However the best Jar and professional levels. One exa mple of the later was Art Deco designs retained an Anglo-Scots severity. Typical the 1957 proposal by the region 's most celebrated architect, is the Marine Building (McCarter and Nairne, 1929-30) Arthur Erickson, to increase building density and elevation completed with Guinness Family funding in conjunction but configured along geographic contour lines to preserve with the erection of the rst Narrows or Lions Gate Bridge residents' views of Vancouver's superb maritime and (Palmer and Bow, 1937·38) to service their British Pacific mountain setting. Properties housing subdivis ion on the north Shore. After The geographical setting explains the historic layering the completion of traditionally styled Federal Public Works of cultures from indigenous settlements to immigrant schemes, like the Seaforth Highlanders Drill Hall co ntinu ed on p. 5 TOURS
SAH INSIDER'S TOUR TO NEW OR LE ANS dants of enslaved people regarded as property. Other architectural work on paper is stored at Tulane's he SAH Insiders' Tour to New Orleans on ll-14 extensive Southeastern Architectural Archive. Apart from November 2004 let the insiders inside some of the shelves of folders, rolled drawings, and models, we saw Tcity's great treasures. Read on for the outdoor sites, architectural photographs by Frank Lotz Miller, who pho to be seen on your own next visit. tographed significant southern modern buildings. Vitrines We met on Thursday evening in Charles Moore's witty displayed rare books on plants and gardening, one theme Piazza d'Ttalia, adjacent to our Loew's hotel. Ron Filson, of our visit. At the library, we met Dr. Lance Query, director professor of architecture at Tulane, recounted the Piazza's of libraries, and Dr.W. Lake Douglas, who provided the history and offered an insider's understanding of the rich commentary on plants, ga rdens, street paving, and recent rehabilitation. At our feast in the hotel's Cafe other landscape issues on the next day's Garden District Adelaide, Tulane professor and tour leader Karen tour. Lake even provided a plant list and references. Kingsley's expert slide lecture introducing the city's physi Among the Garden District's mansions, shotguns, cal history was an extra dessett. Who better to lead us than two-family houses, and flowering bushes is the home of the author of the prize-winning Buildings of Louisiana? William and Mary Louise Christovich, she for decades New On Friday, a memorable visit to the Custom House, Orleans' doyenne of preservation activi ty and architectural led by john Klingman, another professor at Tulane, includ research. We delighted in her detailed presentation of their ed his expertise in restoration and remodeling. This build house (r853) and her explanation of later al terations. The ing and the Mint proclaimed the American government couple endeared themselves further by offering coffee and presence at two corners of the French Quarter. Modified delicious Decadence Cake. internally but with many impressive original aspects, its At Lafayette Cemetery #r, the nineteenth-century mau Great Hall, granite columns, ingenious lighting and venti solea and columbaria rise above ground because one can lating suited to a tropical climate, functional arrangements, not inter bodies in watery land. Ka ren explained provisions and vast spaces engaged us all. for new buria ls, discussed funerary customs, and pointed Karen led us through the French Quarter to buildings out distinguished structures. This vis it preceded a cheerier by Bulfinch and Gallier, and past the house where hour at the Atchafalaya Cafe. Karen and Gail Ettinger of Tennessee Williams wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire." the SA H office made sure that during the tour we sampled Visitors wonder about the Pontalba apartments on jackson several bread puddings, gumbo, redfish, and other special Square: Who lives there? What are the apartments like? ties. Now we know, thanks to Jack and Pat Holden, who let us Restored, we visited two of the Lower Garden District's eat box lunches in their parlor and balcony, and examine Roman Catholic churches. At St. Alphonsus, Bill Murphy, their furniture and works of art. Our hosts, instrumental in SAH director of their Art and Cultural Center, gave his lively Newsletter the scrupulous restoration of the family's historic country account of the history and decoration. The German stained seat near Baton Rouge, have earned places in the honor 4 glass images were most remarkable, showing the life of roll of preservation experts and pah·ons. Jesus on the liturgical south side, Mary's life on the liturgi We toured the 2oo-year-old Pitot House with an cal north, with some unusual iconography. On the next enthusiastic guide, Amber Middleton. This was at first a block stands St. Mary's Assumption, a hall church built for semi-rural location on the higher bank of a bayou giving German-Americans. Its undulating sanctuary walls and convenient access to the city between the Gulf and Lake extraordinary rococo-revival capita ls in the nave recall south Pontchartrain, and thus required shade, ventilation, water Germany's late baroque features. and insect control. That explains the slight above-ground At Lee Circle with its Lee Monument and the fo rmer elevation common in New Orleans. John Hancock Building, a concrete-framed structure by Later, we examined the recently-opened Besthoff Gordon Bunshaft for SOM, is the Ogden Museum of Sculpture Garden, adjacent to the New Orleans Museum of Southern Art. Our architectural goal was the interior of the Art. Among about forty modern works in a landscaped set Howard Memorial Li braty, now part of the museum. ting are masterpieces by famous past and living artists .. Under restoration, with plans for adaptive remodeling, this At the unforgettable Notarial Archives, expert archivist is based on H.H. Richardson's unbuilt design for the Hoyt Ann Wakefield showed us architecturally-related docu Library in Michigan; Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge oversaw ments. Louisiana's civil rather than common law requires construction. Striking is the rotunda with its hammerbeam registration of all property sales, often with plans and beau roof terminating in carved dragon heads. Insiders were tiful wa ter-color drawings. Apart from documenting virtu allowed this exceptional visit by museum director Dr. ally the entire history of New Orleans' architecture, the Richard Gruber. archive is important for genealogical research by descen- continued on p. 14 VANCOUVER CONT'o Government Office Complex (1974-79; landscaping by Cornelia Oberlander). (McCarter and Nairne, 1935-39) the Vancouver urban fabric An appreciation for the context of place and influence increasingly reflected Modernist trends from England, the of ethnicity inspired many other local architects to invent Continent and Bay Region in California. new paradigms for public and private space. The decline of Those formal resources were galvanized by a remark the erstwhile industrial precinct around False Creek able group of Canadian architects who moved to Vancouver spurred a partnership among the three levels of govern just before or after the Second World War. They included ment (federal, provincial, and municipal) and developers to C.B.K. Van Norman, Peter Thornton, Harold Semmens, renew its northern fringe of the city of Vancouver. Led by and Douglas Simpson, together with Ned Pratt. Pratt members of Thompson Berwick Pratt and supported by helped energize the firm of Sharp and Thompson into a City Planner Ray Spaxman, clusters of low-rise housing potent training ground for such idiosyncratic West Coast and apartment complexes were erected so as to preserve Modernist architects as Ron Thorn, Fred Hollingsworth, sight-lines to the magnificent coastal mountains. And one and Arthur Erickson. While their main contribution was to sizable part of the inlet shoreline was devoted to a public residential design across the Lower Mainland, the social market, the serviceable industrial building being re-con and communitarian aspirations of Modernism -- central to signed to designers, craftspeople and artists including new the pedagogy of the School of Architecture at UBC founded facil ities for the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1946 by Fred Lasserre, formerly ofTECTON -- inspired (John and Patricia Patkau, 1990-91). plans for comprehensive urban refurbishment and low Related revisionist transformations of Vancouver's income public housing in conjunction with the Canada architectural culture emerged in the r98os and 9os in the Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Despite the efforts of forms of rhetorical contextualism and renewed technically the Vancouver Planning Department (created in 1957) and based functionalism. The first was epitomized by the Community Arts Council, plans for downtown renewal and diverse narrative formal process of Ri chard Henriquez, the reconstruction of the blighted Strathcona district were architect of such self-consciously site referential commis only partially implemented , as in McLean Park Housing sions as Eugenia Place (1993), or adjacent Sylvia (CMHC and Underwood McKinley Cameron, landscape Apartment (1985-86) in which he reworks features of the architect Cornelia Oberlander 1958-63). adjoining historic West End beachfront hotel. The second 1nadv ertently such communitarian Modernist schemes has proved more durable and multifarious. Its practition become subsumed in the reconfiguration of the Modern ers number Peter Busby, Peter Cardew, and the Patkaus as Movement into post-war American consumer capitalism. well as those like Larry McFarland who seek yet other Even remarkable institutional commissions like the former means to acknowledge the cultural and physical environ main branch of the Vancouver Public Library (Semmens ment. Their work in Vancouver is concentrated in the February 2005 Simpson, 1957-59; altered 1993-94 by James Cheng for outer residential enclaves, the UBC campus and inner commercial use) or the B.C. Electric Building (Thompson precincts. It compensates for the partly glitzy or historicist 5 Berwick Pratt 1957-58; refurbished by Paul Merrick as the commercial high-rise buildings around the Yaletown area Electra Apartments) could not stem the proliferation of which originally housed the employees of the Canadian pedestrian functionalist commercial and high-rise residen Pacific Railway. Yaletown's close proximity to the CPR tial architecture. Similarly, Modernism became associated Roundhouse now renovated as a community arts center, with auto-urbanism and large-scale speculative develop was its greatest asset. At one boundary of Yaletown stands ments slated for the historic harbor front, Gastown and the city's most contentious if serviceable edifice, Library Coal Harbor. Square (Moshe Safdie with Downs Archambault, 1993-95). Dividing the local architectural profession and galva The hybrid structure is both Modernist in structure and nizing public opinion, the Expressway project of the social purpose and Postrnodern in its recall of the ancient late196os stimulated the heritage conservation movement Coliseum. in Vancouver and resulted in the preservation of Gas town, Library Square was a catalyst in contemporary thinking and a more self-conscious regionalism, prefigured in the about both socio-political and architectural mores. Some of later work of Thompson Berwick Pratt at University of the criticism it has received is in reaction to the public British Columbia (UBC) and Erickson/ Massey at Simon institutional faculties as well as the hegemony of Fraser University (SFU). The terminus of this Canadian Eurocentric culture. The erasure of tradition, whether abo Reconstruction era came with Erickson's imaginative riginal or migrant, is more manifest in the massive des ions for the Museum of Anthropology at U BC (1973-76) t:> Concord Pacific redevelopment of the southern margin of which incorporated First Nations sensibilities, and with his low-rise landscaped Provincial Courthouse and continued on p. 16 ANNUAL MEETING
HISTORY OF AR CHITECTURE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Roy, Patricia. Vancouver: An /llr;strated 1-/istory. 1-/istory of Canadian Cities. Toronto: j. Lorimer. 1980. Selected Bibliography compiled by Rhodri Windsor- Liscombe Ward, Robin. Robin Ward 's Vancouver. Madeira Park. B.C.: Harbour Pub., 1990 BRinSH COLUMBIA Barma n, jean. The West Beyond the West: A 1-/istory of British Co lu mbia. Wynn, Graeme, and T. R. Oke. Vancouver and Its Region. Vancouve r: UBC Rev. Ed. Toronto: University ofToronto Press, 1996. Press, 1992
Kalman, Harold. A Concise 1-/istory ofCcmadian Architecture. Don Mills, VICTORIA Ont.: Oxford University Press, 2000. Segger, Martin and Frankli n Douglas. Exploring Victoria's Architecture. Victoria, B.C.: Sono Nis Press, 1996. Luxton, Donald. Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia. Vancouver: Talon books, 2003- ---. Victoria : A Primer for Regional 1-/istory in Architecture, 1843-1929. Watkins Glenn, N.Y.: American Life Foundation and Study Institute VANCOUVER Blomley, Nick. Umettling the Cit)>:Urba11 Land and tire Politics of Property. Thomas, Christopher. "Victoria Moderna (1945-1970): Civic Myth and New York: Routledge, 2004. Difference in Modern Architecture." jotm·ral of the Society for the Study of Arcl1itecture in Canada. 26 (2001): 3-14. Boddy, Trevor. "Folsom Street Blues." Places: A Forum of Environmental
Design. r6 (2004): 22-25 Ward, Robin_ Echoes of Empire: Victoria «( It s Remarkable Buildings. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Pub., 1996. Coupland, Douglas. City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver. Vancouver: Douglas & Mcintyre, 2000.
D'Acres, Lilia , and Donald Luxton. Lions Gate. Burnaby, B.C.: University of Houston - G.D. Hines College of Architecture Talonbooks, 1999 The Co llege of Architecture invites applications for a
Delany, Paul. Vancouver: Representing the Postmodem City. Vancouver: full -t ime tenure- trac k or ten ured position in 20t h-century Arsenal Pulp Press, 1994. and contemporary history and theory of architecture and design, to begin in August, 2005. Candidates must ho ld a Ka lman, Harold, Ronald A. Philips, and Robin Ward. Exploring PhD at the t ime of appointment; a professional degree in Vancouver: I11e Essential Architectural Guide. Vancouver: U BC Press, Archi tecture or Industrial Design is desirable. Ca ndidates 1993- will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and mas
Kalman, Harold and john Roaf. Exploring Vancouver 2: Tetl Tours of tile te r's leve ls in bot h t he established architecture curriculum Cit.y and Its Buildings. Rev. and en!. - ed. Vancouver: University of and the recently initiated Industrial Design Program. British Columbia Press, 1978. Applica nts should have recognized accomplishments in SAH Newsletter scholarship and resea rch.Preference wi ll be give n to t hose ---. Exploring Vancouver: Ten Tours oft he City and Its Buildings. who have demonstrated effectiveness in teaching. 6 Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1974. Applicants should provide a letter of interest t hat includes Kluckner, Michael. Michael Kluckner's Vancou ver. Vancouver: Raincoast a description of research projects, a curriculum vitae, Books, 1996. examples of scholarshi p and the names and complete con tact info rmat ion of t hree academic references. Kluckner, Michael, and joh n Atkin. 1-/eritage Walks Around Vancouver. Applica tions wi ll be reviewed beginn ing February 15, Vancouver, B.C.: Whitecap Books, 1992. 2005 and will co ntinue unt il the position is filled. Submit
---. Vancouver Walks: Di scoverir1g City 1-/eritage. Vancouver: Steller Press, appl ications to: Dr. Nora Laos, Chair, History Search 200J. Committee, University of Houston, G.D. Hines College of Arch itecture, 122 College of Architecture Bldg., Houston, Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor. et al. The New Spirit: Modem Architecture in TX 77204-4000; Tel. 713-743-2402; Fax 7 13-743-2358; E Vancouver, 19]8-196J. Montreal. Vancouver, Cambridge, Mass.: Centre mail [email protected] Canadien d'ArchitecturefCanadian Centre fo r Architecture: Douglas & Mcintyre: Distributed in the United State of America by MIT Press, The University of Houston is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 1997· Employer and is strongly and actively committed to diversity within its Punter, john Vincent. Th e VancotiVer Achievement: Urban Planning and community. Women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities Design. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. are encouraged to apply. SOCIETY ANNOUNCEMENTS
SAH SUMMER SEMINAR ON CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE DAY 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE CITY Monday, 27 June 2005-Afternoon only 27 }u11e- 3 july 2005 Aftemooll i11troductory lecture: The Lake is Always East: A Short History of Chicago SAH is proud to announce a new type of study tour-a Walking tour: week-long seminar that will combine morning lectures Orientation to the Loop, Grant Park and Millennium Park jane H. Clarke, Former Associate Director. Departme nt of Museum with afternoon tours to examine the highlights of Chicago Education, The Art Institute of Chicago architecture. Chicago is a city known fo r outstanding archi
tecture, park design and urban planning, and SAH has DAY 2 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SKYSCRAPER IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES organized this seminar to focus on the most important Tuesday, 28 June 2005 commercial, residential, cultural, and educational buildings Morning lecture: in the city as well as the parks, campuses and urban frame Development of the Commercial and Retail Architecture in Chicago Robert Bruegmann, Professor, Department of Architecture and Art work that house them. The seminar will emphasize History. University of IUinois at Chicago Chicago's position as the most "American" city and will Aftemooll lo1
continued on p. 8 SUMM ER SEMINAR CON T'D The Chicago Seminar has been organized by SAH Executive Director Pauline Saliga, who has published DAY 4 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE PART 2 extensively on the history of Chicago architecture and Thursday, 30 June 2005 Moming lectures: design. Lecturers are professors from universities in the Louis Sullivan, Father of the Prairie School area as well as specialists in architectural history who work Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architects of the Prairie School in other cultural institutions in the city. Morning lectures Sidney K. Robinson, Professor, Department of Architecture, University will be held at the landmark building that serves as SAH's of Ill inois at Chicago administrative headquarters, Charnley-Persky House Ajtemoo11 tour: (Adler and Sullivan, r891-92) on the near north side of The afternoon tour will focus solely on Prairie School architecture in the Chicago. Afternoon wa lking tour sites will be accessed nearby suburb of Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Frank Ll oyd mainly by public transportation and will require partici Wright Home and Studio, Unity Temple and the Prairie School homes concenh·ated along Forest Avenue. pants to walk long distances over the course of an after noon. Seminar participants should plan to arrive in DAY 5 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHICAGO LANDSCAPE Chicago on the morning of Monday, 27 June fo r an orien Friday, 1 July 2005 tation to begin at r:oo pm that day. The last day of the sem Morning lectures: inar will be Sunday, 3 July. Breakfast and dinner will be on Chicago's Planning Innovations-The 1893 World's Columbian one's own and daily lunches will be included in the tour Exposition, 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition and the package. Development of the 1909 Plan of Chicago Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Professor Emerita, DePaul University, Chicago Tour participants will be free to decide on their own Chicago's Historic Park System-Frederick Law Olmsted, )ens Jensen, housing arrangements--to stay with friends or to stay in Alfred Caldwell one of Chicago's many downtown hotels. In order to Julia Bachrach, Historian for the Chicago Park District encourage studen ts to participate, SAH has reserved a lim Afternoon t.ow·: ited number of reduced-rate rooms in University Center Julia Bachrach and Pauline Saliga will lead a walking tour of North (James DeStefano, 2004), the brand new dormitory that Avenue Beach, as it relates to the 1909 Plan of Chicago, and Lincoln was built at the south end of downtown Chicago to house Park (begun 186o) with the restored Lily Pool (Alfred Caldwell) students from Columbia College and DePaul and Roosevelt
DAY 6 POST-WAR MODERNISM Universities. Registrants should contact the SA H office if Saturday, 2 July 2005 they would like to stay in University Center. The tour price Momi11g lecture: and rates for rooms in University Center will be Mies van der Rohe and his Disciples announced shortly. A generous gift from an SAH Board Kevin Harrington, Professor, Department of Architecture, Illinois Member will enable SA H to offer a fellowship for this sem Institute of Technology inar. Also, to encourage architects to participate, this semi Afternoon tour: SAH nar will be registered with the AIAJCES system. Kevin Harrington will accompany the group to tour buildings on the Newsletler Pl ease visit the SAH website at www.sah.org for addi Illinois Institute of Technology campus designed by Mies van der Rohe, 8 Helmut Jahn, Rem Koolhaas, and others. tional information about tour prices, fellowship application and AIAJCES credits, or contact Gail Ettinger in the SAH DAY 7 PULLMAN, FARNSWORTH HOUSE AND MORE office at [email protected] or 312.573-1365. Sunday, 3 July 2005 The final day will be a departure from the lecturejtour format and Staircase in The Rook ery (Burnham and Root. 1885·88) instead will be a day- long bus tour. The entire day will be devoted to (Photo: john Gronkowski Photography) touring icons of the Chicago area that are some distance away. The morning tour will be of the planned community of Pullman, designed in r88o-94 by S. S. Beman for George S. Pullman, to house the workers who built his eponymous sleeping cars for various train lines. Largely intact, Pullman Historic District is a study in 19th century town planning and labor strife. The afternoon tour will include two icons of modernism--Mies van der Rohe's Edith Farnsworth House (1945-50) in Plano, Illinois and Bruce Golfs Ruth Ford House (1950) in Aurora, Illinois. On the way, tour participants will see many of the newer suburbs that have devel oped as the Chicago metropolitan region continues to expand westward and southward. Weather permitting, the day will conclude with a picnic dinner on the lawn of Millennium Park, the site of the Pritzker Music Pavilion (Frank Gehry, 2004). There we will participate in the new park's most popular event, a free concert and fireworks in honor of Independence Day. BUILDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES he Buildings of the United States' Interim Editorial SAH ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF A NEW FELLOWSHIP Committee (IEC) is pleased to announce the first of T a number of exciting new developments in the The Society is pleased to announce that David series. Maxfield, a long-time SAH member and frequent study In December 2004, BUS signed an agreement with tour participant, has created a new fellowship, the George Thompson and the Center for American Places David MaxfieldfSAH Study Tour Fellowship. Designed (CAP). Founded in 1990 by Thompson and a group of to enable a student or emerging scholar to participate prominent scholars and writers, including J .B. Jackson and in one of SAH's annual foreign study tours, the fellow Yu-Ti Fuan, CAP describes its educational mission as one ship has been created in response to requests from the of "enhanc[ing] the public's understanding of, appreciation Society's members and Board to make the Society's for, and affection for the natural and built environment. " study tours accessible to graduate students and aca Thus fa r CAP has produced more than 250 books and demics who are new to the field. Maxfield, who initiat received 90 publishing awards and honors for its efforts. ed the Fellowship in 2003 for the Society's Study Tour They will serve, in effect, as managing editor of th e BUS to Peru, has agreed to provide partial funding for the series and liaison between SAH, our publisher and BUS annual fellowship for the foreseeable future. authors. They will also be working with BUS on marketing SAH will match Maxfield's contribution, and the and fundraising efforts. We are delighted to have CAP as fellowship will completely underwrite the ground costs our new partner in the BUS venture. of an SAH Foreign Study Tour. The next time the In consultation with CA P we have entered into discus Fellowship will be offered is for the Society's upcoming sions with a top graphic designer and we are now planning study tour to South India (December 28, 2005-January a new look for the BUS series. This will include redesigned 18, 2006). Please visit the SAH website at covers and page layouts, and possibly color, expanded www.sah.org for information about eligibility and an image captions, sidebars and other new features. The aim application form. will be to produce books that, while maintaining BUS's On behalf of the Society, its Board and its mem high scholarly standards, will be more vis ually dynamic, bers, I sincerely thank David Maxfield for his contin engaging, and accessible. Keith Morgan's MA-Boston vol ued generosity to the Society and for helping us fulfill ume will be the fi rst published with CAP and with this new our scholarly mission. The creation of the David format. The Wisconsin volume, from a team of authors led MaxfieldjSAH Study Tour Fellowship has long been a by Marsha Weisiger, will follow closely behind. These two goal of the Society's leadership and we thank David for manuscripts will be copy-edited soon and should be ready having made it a reality. in time for the 2oo6 SAH meeting in Savannah. At present, BUS has sufficient funds on hand to meet - Pauline Saliga, Executive Director February its operating expenses for Fiscal Year 2005, including the 2005 fees of the Center fo r American Places. Together with CAP 9 we will be conducting an active fundraising campaign over the coming months and aiming to bring you more good University of Cincinnati news about the Buildings of the United States. As ever, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN your tax-deductible contributions to the project are much appreciated. Th e School of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati is seeking several full -Keith Eggener, BUS Associate Editor and Chair, Interim time faculty members-both permanent and vis· Editorial Committee iting- plus a Director of Graduate Stud ies. SAID faculty teach lectures, seminars and studios and are expected to focus on a specific area of expertise. Please go to http://daap.uc.edu, for fur· ther information. GIFTS AND DONOR SUPPORT
1 October - 30 November 2004 On behalf of the SA H Board and members, we sincerely thank the members li sted below who, in October and November, made gifts to a va riety of funds including the Annual Appeal, the Annual Meeting Fellowship funds, the Buildings of the United States Project and Charnley-Persky House. We are extremely grateful to all of you for you r generosity and your willingness to help the Society fu lfill its scholarly mission.
SAH ANNUAL APPEAL FELLOWSHIP FUNDS Elwin Clark Robison Gifts under $250 Rosann S. Berry Annual Meeting Fellowship Fund Palmer Brook Schooley Peter Ambler and Lindsay Miller Thomas Beischer Melvyn Skvarla Barry Bergdoll Clarke Garnsey Astrid Bernz Witschi ian Berke Henry and Judith Millon Betty Blum John Moore Bruce Boucher Christine O'Malley Kenneth Breisch and Judith Keller Melvyn Skva rla NOTICE OF AD DITION TO AGEND A FOR Paul Campagna john Carnahan George R. Collins Memorial Fellowship Fund MEMBERS' MEE TI NG ON APRIL 6, 2005 Steven Dotterrer Christiane Collins Thomas and Anne Earle Mary Mcleod Proposed Merger of Society of Hortense Feldblum John Moore Architectural Historians with and into a Carol Flores Melvyn Skvarla new Illinois not-for-profit corporation. Rosemary Foy In an effort to reduce filing require The ). Paul Getty Trust Spiro Kostof Annual Meeting Fellowship Fund ments and administrative costs, the Yukihiro Kado Diane Favro and Fikret Yegul Board of Directors of the Society of Spence and Laura Kass Terry Ki rk Jeannie Kim and Hunter Tura Evonne Levy Architectural Historians believes it to Alice-Anne Krishnan john Moore be in the best interests of the Society Hugh Moore, Jr. Melvyn Skvarla to change its place of incorporation Luigi Mumford from Connecticut to Illinois. To Virginia Raguin CHARNLEY- PERSKY HOUSE MUSEUM FOUNDATIO N effect this change, it is necessary for Howard Romanek Gifts under $250 Adeline Schuster Ma ry Eileen Bateman the Society to merge wi th and into a Melvyn Skvarla Deborah Howard new Illinois not-for-profit corpora Mary Woods Ada Louise Huxtable tion. The merger will not affect the Mary Alice Molloy governance or operations of the SAH TOURS Melvyn Skvarla Society and, most importantly, will Gifts under $250 not affect any right or power of any SAH Jacob Albert BUILDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES Newsletter Lee Altmeyer Gifts of $250 - $999 Member of the Society. At the SAH Peter Ambler and Lindsay Miller Southeast Chapter, SAH Business Meeting on April 6, 2005 10 Robert Bowman in Vancouver, B.C., the Plan of )ames Buttrick Gifts under $250 Merger will be submitted to the Sheila Donahue Edith Bingham Members for their approval. Any Jim and Margo Heegeman Kenneth Breisch and Judith Keller Member who wishes to receive a Joanne Hinchliff Sherman Clarke Sidney and Sarah Bradford Landau Dan Deibler copy of the Plan of Merger should Brian Foix and Mildred Larson Steven Dotterrer send a request to the Executive Myra Malkin Thomas and Anne Earle Director and it will be sent as soon Janis and John K. Notz, )r. ). Steven Frear as feasible. Edward). Pass The). Paul Getty Trust Alexander and Drika Purves Nonya Grenader Please provide your proxy by means Charles Robertson Marilyn Harper Anais Ruiz Kim Hoagland of the postcard enclosed. Jay Shockley Philip and Helen Jessup Jonathan Snyder Arthur )ones Karen Kingsley Max Levy Gary Moye Elisabeth Potter BOOKLIST Recently published architectural books and related works, selected by Volwahsen, Andreas. Splendours of Imperial India: British Arcl1itecture in Barbara Opar, Syracuse University Libra ry tile J8til and 19tii Centuries. Munich ; London: Prestel, 2004. 303p. ISBN 3791330454· SIIO.OO REFERENCE WORKS
Grossman, james R. , Ann Durkin Keating and janice L. Reiff. eds. Tl1e ARCHITECTURE - ITALY Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Burger, Fritz. (Filippi. Elena, and Lionello Puppi, eds.) Le Ville di Andrea 1152p. ISB 0226310159 S65.oo Palladio: C011tributo alia Storia Deli'Evoluzione deli'Architettiira Rinascimentale (I 909)- Torino: Allemandi. 2004. 2I7P- ISBN ARCHITECTS 88422!2806 $48·95 Baglione, Chiara, and Elisabetta Susani, eds. Pietro Lingeri 1894-1968. Milan: Electa, 2004. 405p. ISBN 8843579894 S148.oo Corsi, Stefano and Pina Ragionieri, eds. Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Roma nell'incisione del Ci11quecento. 70p. ISBN Fontaine, Gerard. L'Opera de Charles Gamier: Arcliitect11re et Decor 8874610645 $25.00 lnterieur. Paris: Editions du Patrimoine, 2004. 190p. ISBN 2858228ooo. 5)4-50 Lasansky, D. Medina. TI1e Renaissance Peifected: Arcilitect.ure, Spectacle and Tourism in Facist Italy. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Gannon, Todd, Jeffrey Kipnis. and Michael S. Denison, eds. Steven /-loll University Press. 2004. 412p. ISBN 027102366x 585.00 Arcilitectsj Simmom Hall. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. r64p. ISBN I568984642 $29.95 Reval. Edit, ed. Firenze e Ia Toscrma nelle Vedute Del Settecento: Disegni e Stampe I7J9·I80J. Livorno: Sillabe, 2004. 95P· ISBN 8883472217 $25.00 Hertzberg, Mark. Wright in Racine: tile Architect's Vision For One American City. Petaluma, Calif.: Pomegranate, 2004. 95P· ISBN ARCHITECTURE - UNITED STATES 0764928902 524-95 Edwards, Jay Dearborn and Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton. A Creole Lexicon: Architect ure, Landsca pe, People. Baton Rouge: Humm, Othmar and Heinz von Arx, eds., Moser Nussba unier: Vision and Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 269p. ISBN 0807127647 Architektur. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. r69p. ISBN 595-00 3764368624 S6o.oo ARCHITECTURE, CLASSICAL Huxtable, Ada Louise. Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: LipperfViking. Tzonis, Alexande r. Classical Greek Architect.ure. Paris: Flam marion ; 2004. 251p. ISBN o670033421 $19.95 London Thames & Hudson, 2004. 288p. ISBN 2080304229 575 .00
McClane, Patrick W. The Arciiitecture ofjame s Gamble Rogers II in Winter ARCHITECTURE, ISLAMIC Park. Fl orida. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2004. Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian. Tile Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial 171p. ISB o8r3o27705 $29.95 Arcilitect1ae and Urba n Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Cwturies. Boston, Mass.: Brill Academic Pub., 2004. 278p. ISBN Noever, Peter and Francois Perrin. Yves Klein: Air Architecture. 9004124543 5140-00 Ostftldern: Hatje Cantz, 2004. I44P· ISBN 3775714073 S35.00 Februa ry ART AND SOCIETY - ITALY 2005 Scalbert, I renee. A Right to Difference: TI1e Architecture ofjean Renamlie. Brown, Patricia Fortini. Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, London: Architectural Association, 2004. 125p. ISBN 190290236X Arciiitectu re, and the Family. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 11 550.00 312p. ISBN 0300102364
Webb, Daniel, and Danette Riddle. Architecture at Work: DMJM Design CITY PLANNING Los Angeles. New York: Edizioni Press. Inc., 2004. '44P· ISBN Childs, Mark C. Squares: A Public Place Design Guide for Urba nists. 193' 536252 545-00 Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 2o8p. ISBN 0826330037 $45-00 ARCHITECTURE-18TH CENTURY Arciszewska, Barbara and Elizabeth McKellar, eds. Art.icu/ating British Elsheshtawy, Yasser, ed. Planning Middle Eastem Cities: A11 Urban Classicism: New Approaches to Eigilteentii-Century Architecture. Burlington, Kaleidoscope in a Globalizing World. London ; New York: Routledge, VT: Ashgate. 2004. 269p. ISBN 075463735-2 $89.95 2004. 210p. ISBN 0415304008 $104.95
ARCHITECTURE - INDIA Gottlieb, Robert, Mark Vallianatos. Regina M. Freer, and Peter Dreier. Hanumantha Rao, D. Lepaksi Te mple: A Cultural and Architectural Study. The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City. Berkeley: University Delhi . India: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2004. 275P· ISBN 8 180900266 of California Press, 2004. 288p. ISBN 0520239997 $55.00 570-00 King, Anthony D. Spaces of Global Cultu res; Architecture, Urba11ism, Kalia, Ra vi. Gandhi nagar: Building National Jde11tity in Postcolonial India. Identity. London; New York: Routledge, 2004. 256p. ISBN 0415196191 Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. 165p. ISBN $1}2.00 157003544X $29.95
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MEM BER NE WS ARTICLE AWARD: Paul Kruty, "At Work in the Oak Park Studio," ARRIS vol. 14 (2003): 2005 Carter Manny Award Competition: The Carter Manny 17-31. Award, an annual fellowship offered by the Graham Thomas Earl Larose, "Babylon South: The Building of the Richmond Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, supports Loew's Theater and the Richmond Garage 1925-1928," ARRIS vol. 13 (2002): 55-71. research for academic dissertations by promising scholars
whose doctoral projects focus on topics directly concerned ESSAY AWARD: with architecture, the built environment, and other arts Pamela H. Simpson, "The Great Lee Chapel Controversy and the that are immediately contributive to architecture. Scholars 'Little Group of Will full Women' Who Saved the Shrine of the South," whose dissertations are directed toward architecture, land in Cindy Mills and Pamela H. Simpson, ed s., Mom1ments to the Lost scape architecture, interior design, architectural technolo Cause, Women, Art a11d Landscapes of Southern Memory. Knoxville. Tenn.: The University ofTennessee Press, 2003. gies, architectural history and theory, urban design and planning, and, in some circumstances, the fine arts in rela S ESAH is a regional chapter of the Society of tion to architectural topics are eligible to apply. Architectural Historians and includes all n states of the The award is restricted to applicants who have com southeast. The organization holds an annual meeting, pub pleted their course work, who have advanced to candidacy, lishes a quarterly newsletter and an annual journal, Arris. and whose dissertation proposals have been approved by Founded in 1983, SESAH draws its membership from their academic departments. Only students enrolled in architects and architectural historians who teach in the var schools in the U.S. and Canada are el igible to apply. The ious colleges and architecture schools in the region. The award will be acknowledged by financial support of up to annual awards recognize the best publications on the topic $r5,ooo. Academic departments may nominate one stu of architecture in the South, or the best publications on any dent for the award competition each year, and a student architectural topic by an author living in the South. may not apply more than once for the award. The members of the SESAH Awards Committee fo r The Graham Foundation's postmark deadline for nom 2004 were Kingston Heath of the University of Oregon inated applications is 15 March 2005. For further instruc and Catherine Bisher of Preservation North Carolina. tions on how to apply for a Carter Manny Award, as well as a list of previous award recipients, consult the Graham Call for SESAH Publication Awards Nominations, 2005: The Foundation's Web site at www.grahamfoundation.org. Southeast Society of Architectural Historians Publication Awards Committee seeks nominations for the 2005 annual CHAP TER NEWS awards. These awards are given for publications either on Chicago Chapter SAH Altltual Show and Tell Dinner: More the topic of architecture in the South or by authors who SAH reside in the South . Newsletter than 45 people attended the first Show and Tell dinner of the reinstated Chicago Chapter on 8 December 2004 at the The three categories are books, journal articles and 12 Cliff Dwellers Club. After dining on delectable fare served essays published in a book format. The copyright should be by retired Pullman train car waiters, the audience was no earlier than 2003. A book, article or essay may have no regaled with an array of brief architectural presentations on more than two authors and nominated authors must be liv a wide range of topics by speakers Ross Sackett, Shirley ing. An article or essay should be xeroxed and have its Haas, Richard Halversen, Martin Tangora, Art Miller, complete bibliography included. Book titles must also Kevin Harrington, John Blew, and Heather Plaza-Manning. include fu ll bibliographical information so that they can be ordered from the publishers.
SESAH Announces 2004 Publicati01t Awards: The The deadline for submissions is r June 2005 and Southeast Society of Architectural Historians announced its should be sent to Catherine Zipf at Salve Regina annual publications awards winners at its annual meeting University, roo Ochre Point Ave, Newport, Rl 02840 or via in Knoxville, Tennessee on 28 October. The full list of wi n e-mail to her at [email protected]. The other members ners of the 2004 awards include: of the 2005 committee are Catherine Bishir and Travis McDonald.
BOOK AWARD: Christopher Domin and joseph King, Paul Rudolph: Th e Florida Houses. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 2002. EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
EVENTS, SYMPOS IA, CONFERENCES, LE CTURE S The announce ment of the selected abstracts will be made by r March 2oos on the competition website Modernity Modernism and the Interior 1870-1970: Kingston (http://quaderns.coac.net) and by e-mail to all entrants. The University: Lawley Lecture theatre & Dorich House, U.K. authors of the winning entries will be expected to send a I9 and 20 May 2oos. This conference investigates the complete paper of a maximum of s.ooo words by IS April phenomenon of the modern interior in its broadest sense, 200S. including interiors designed and produced by professionals The authors of the winni ng entries will be invited to and amateurs, not necessarily looking modern but which present their papers at the conference (travel and accom can be seen as a response to 'modern life' There will be modation expenses will be met by the organisers). The papers from design historians, architectural historians and authors of the special mentions will receive free conference cultural historians. £12s. students £so. Program, registra registration. The full papers presented at the conference tion form and abstracts can be found at and all the selected abstracts will be published in a special www.kingston.ac.uk/dorich or contact: Nina Hunt, Short issue of Quadem s that will record the preparation, develop Courses, Faculty of Art Design & Music, Kingston ment and conclusions of the conference. University, Knights Park, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey Abstracts should not exceed soo words and should be KTr 2Qj. tel: 020 8s47 7066 or email sent by e-mail, as an attachment, to [email protected] [email protected]. The text fil e should be named "abstract-sub-theme-your last name.doc" (in the The Education of an Architect: Quadems, in its desire to con place of sub-theme, please write only a, b or c, according to tribute to the architectural debate, wi shes to announce an the subject chosen). International Conference on Architectural Education, Please also include the following data: abstract title, which will be held in Barcelona 21-23 April 2oos. To rai se your name, title, position and school (if applicable), address the issue of architectural education is to raise the issue of for correspondence, phone and e-mail address. the role of the architect in the contemporary world. In the subject box of the e-mail, please write: Speakers will include not only foremost fi gures in the "quaderns conference abstract". Abstracts may be accompa architectural academic world, but al so outstanding practi nied by one image, in jpeg format, not exceeding so o KB. tioners and professionals from other fi elds. Abstracts will be written in one of the following lan The conference aims to investigate what this role guages: Catalan, Spanish, English or French. Address: should be in the near future, on the basis of the under Xavier OsartejMar Perez Unanue, CJCasp 3S· entsl. IE, standing that specific approaches to architectural education o8oio Barcelona, Spain; PhonejFax: 34 933 I7S 8r9; E can make a decisive contribution to this research. mail: [email protected] The conference will be centred around three sub- February 2005 themes, one for each day of the event. EXHIBITIONS a. The specialist architect versus the general 13 architect Instruments of Faith: Toronto's First Synagogues, University b. Global processes versus local singularities in of Toronto, 3 February - I6 April 2oos. In Instruments of architectural education Faith, Toronto-based photographer Robert Burley explores c. New tools and new techniques in the downtown synagogues built in the early part of the 2oth production of architecture ce ntury. Burley surveys six buildings which have played an The Conference Committee is making an open call for important role in the history of Toronto's jewish commu papers that deal with any of the three sub-themes present nity as well as the development of downtown neighbor ed above. hoods, including the Annex and Ken sington Market. Th is This ca ll is open to students, educators and profession exhibition is an extension of a joint project Burley has been als in all fi elds dealing with the transformation of the built working on with the Ontario jewish Archives (http://collec environment (architecture, landscape, urbanism, etc.), and tions.ic.gc.ca/TorontoSynagogues). any other individual or team interested in the conference The exhibition will be held at the Eric Arthur Gallery, themes. Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University Abstracts with draft s or proposals for papers on one of ofToronto, 230 Coll ege Street, Toronto, Ontario MsT IR2. the above-mentioned sub-themes should be sent by IS Phone: 4I6 978 so38; Website: www.ald.utoronto.ca February 2o os. The Conference Committee will select a maximum of 2 winning abstracts and 3 special mentions per sub-theme. NEW ORLEANS CONT'o
Refreshments appeared at architect james DEPART~tENT OF ARC HITE C T U RE AND U RBAN DESI GN Lamantia's Gallery 539 on Bienville Street. We also feasted on his display of prints by Piranesi, and The Depanment of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA invites nominations and spied classic architectural history books for sale. applications for the the newly created position of Director. Located in one of the country's most dynamic, creative and challenging urban centers, the depanment has On Sunday morning, Karen led us through the eamed an international reputation for excellence and seeks a Director who will foster and Central Business Dis trict. Major sights included contribute to the global perspective of one of the strongest faculties of architectural design in the US. Committed to advanced design and research, panicularly to the Greek Revival Gallier Hall, the former Post Office, integration of new technologies and critical studies with architectural and urban design, and Lafayette Square. She explained the area's vicis the depanment views teaching as acti vely contributing to both research and practice and seeks to make appointments that advance these undenakings. situdes, which became clear at the apartment of Arthur and Mary Davis in a former wa rehouse. The Reponing to the Dean of the School of the Ans and Architecture, the Director will be responsible for advancing the growth and impact of the depanment by lending district has recently become highly va lued, like ex entrepreneurial intelligence to institution building (including a new Digi tal Technologies warehouse districts elsewhere, but hard to replicate Center), fund raising, alumni relations, community and professional outreach, student recruitment, program development and administration. is the breadth of the Davises' art collection, its paintings and objects reflecting world-wide travel, It is preferred that the candidate have a strong record of administrative experience, and a demonstrated interest in architectural culture qualifying her/hi m for a tenured teaching supplemented by modern furn iture classics by Mies appointment and Breuer.
Candidates arc requested to furnish a letter of interest along with a complete resume or Lunch at the Palace Cafe on Canal Street, in a curriculum vitae. They are also asked to include the names, phone numbers, and mail former music store, provided a last sampling of and e-mail (if available) address(es) of three references quali fi ed to provide a knowledgeable evaluation of their qualifications. No additional suppon materials should local cuisine and time to offer sincere thanks to the be sumitted until requested. Application deadline is April I, 2005 or until fi ll ed. learned, enthusiastic, well-spoken, and generous Karen Kingsley. Throughout, we- more happily Address letters of application to Richard Weinstein, Acting Chair, UCLA, Depanment of Architecture and Urban Design, 1317 Perloff Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1467 than Blanche DuBois- had "depended upon the kindness of strangers." 7he Uniwrsity ofCa/iforma is em !:'qual Opportunity Affirmative Action l·.'mployer. !'roofof U.S. citi=enship or eligihi/ity.for U.S. emloymelllwi/1 be required pnor 10 emp/oyme/11 (lmnugration Reform and Comro/ Ac1 of /986). - Carol Herselle Krinsky, New York University
The Ohio State University THE CONCEPT OF THE HORIZON AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION May 13-14, 2005
E OHIO SfA1E BOOK LI ST CONT'O
Shaw, Diane. City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting tile New Nineteenth-century City. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Sbriglio, Jacques. Le Corbusier: L'Unite d'habitation de Marseille: et Les Press, 2004. 209p. ISBN o8o1879 256 $4 5.00 Autres Unites d'Habitation a Reze-les-Nantes, Berlin, Briey e~1 Foret et Firminy. Basel: Birkhauser Books, 2004. 244P· ISBN 3764367180 EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES $27-95 Jarzombek, Mark. Designing MIT: Bosworth 's New Tecft. Boston:
ortheastern University Press, 2004. 164p. ISBN 1555536190 $4;.oo MUSEUMS Tilden, Scott J ., ed. Arcl1itectJ 1568984510 $19-95 RELIG IOUS BUILDINGS Brandenburg. Hugo. Le Prime Chiese di Roma IV-VII Secolo: L'lnizio HISTORIC PRESERVATION deii'Arcl1itettura Ecc/esia stica Occidentale. Milan: Jaca Book, 2004. 336p. Russell, Ellen Fletcher. Roslyn Restored: T11e Legacy of Roger and Peggy ISBN 8816603151 $140.00 Gerry. Albany, NY: Mount ida Press, 2004. 16op. ISB N 0962536849 530.00 Buillet, A. L'Eglise et le Tresor de Cm1ques (Aveyron). Nimes: Lacour, 2003. (Reprint of 1892 ed.) 122p. ISBN 2750402573 $38.95 HOUS ING Collins, Brad. Gwathmey Siegel: Apartments. New York: Ri zzoli, 2004. Kinder, Terry! N. Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude: Essays on 276p. ISBN 0847826864 $65.00 Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honour of Peter Fergusson. Turnhout: Brepols, Citeattx, 2004. 409p. ISBN 2503516920 $205.00 Davis, Sam. Designingfor the Homeless: Arcl1itecture Tlzat Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 161p. ISB N 0520235258 Moss, Roger W. Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: 534·95 University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. 314p. ISB N 0812237927 $34.95 Hildebrand, Grant and T. William Booth. A Tl1riving Modernism: The Ri chardson , Phyllis. New Spiritual Architect.ure. New York: AbbeviiJe Houses of We~1dell Lovett. a11d A m e Bystrom. Seattle: University of Press. 2004. 224p. ISBN 0789208350 $75.oo Washington Press, 2004. 165p. ISB N 0295984333 $4o .oo Schutz, Bernard. Great Monasteries of Europe. New York: Abbeville Press, Rappaport, Nina. The Millennium House: Peggy Deamer Seminar and 2004. 491p. ISBN 0789208296 $135-00 St udio 2000-2001, Ya le School ofArchitecture. New York: Monacelli Press, 2004. 191p. ISBN 1580931235 $35.00 Assistant Professor - Oberlin College LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE One year non-continuing position in History of Hunt, John Dixon. The Ajierlift of Gardens. Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 256p. ISBN o81223846x Architecture with emphasis on the European ea rly 54)-00 modern and modern period (17th -19th centuries) February 2005 in the Art Department, Oberlin Col lege. Incumbent Leatherbarrow, David. Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and would teach five cou rses per year; two sections of 15 Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. an introductory course; two intermediate cou rses in 288p. ISBN o812238095 S55 .oo architectural history, and one undergraduate MASTERWORKS seminar. Babelon, Jean-Pierre. Le Chatea1• d'Amboise. Aries: Actes-Sud, 2004. Qualifications include the Ph.D. degree and 184p. ISBN 274274746x $87. 50 demonstrated interest and potential excellence in undergraduate teaching. Letters of application, Bellini, Federico. Le Cupole di Borromin i: La "Scientia " Costruttiva in Eta including a curriculum vi tae, graduate academic Barocca. Milan: EJ ecta, 2004. 339P- ISBN 8843581732 S84.95 transcripts, and three letters of reference, should Carmona. Michel. Le Louvre et les Tuileries: Huit Siec/es d'Histoire. Paris: be se nt to Professor Susan Kane , Chair, Art Editions de Ia Martiniere, 2004. 423p. ISBN 284 6751471 $62.50 Department, Oberlin Col lege, Oberlin, Ohio 44074 by March 15, 2005. EO /AA Employer. Irwin, Robert. Th e Alhambra. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 213p. ISBN 0674015681 $19.95 Kleinbuaer, W. Eugene, Anthony White and Henry Matthews. Hagia Sopl1ia. London: Scala Publishers, 2004. 127p. ISB N 1857593081 $24.95 II Pala zzo del Principe: Genesi e Trasformazioni della Villa di Andrea Doria a Genova. Rome: Carocci, 2004. 18op. ISBN 8843032321 $87.50 VAN CO UVER CONT'D February 2005 Vol.XLIX No.1 False Creek, located on the former grounds of the 1985 Vancouver List of Speakers and Session Chairs 2 Exposition. Here three distinct vertical vi llages most components wired to An Historic Ovetview of Vancouver SAI-l Insider's Tour· New Orlenas the virtual global village predicted or romanticized by Marshall McLuhan, 4 Amuwl Meeting Bibliography 6 rise within a sequence of landscaped parks and communal spaces or com· SAH Summer Seminar 7 mercia! outlets. Linking to the Yaletown residential area as well as the larg· Buildings of tire United States 9 er downtown core, the Concord Pacific project has reinforced the uniquely Gifis and Donor Support 10 comprehensive scale of the urban core of Vancouver. The attractive Booklist II streetscape and vibrant street life represent the broad consensus that has News 12 Events and Opportunities funded a gradual extension of public transit including new Light Rapid 13 Transit elevated railcar system distinguished by inventively functionalist stations. This resolution of the habitable with the technological, of the urban with the urbane, has given rise to the term Vancouverism. Cover images: See these buildings in person at the SAH Annual Meeting in Vancouver. 6-10 April 2005. Top: · Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe Vancouver Courthouse (now the Vancouver Art Gallery); Professor of Architect•1ral History Middle: The Fairmont Empress Hotel. Victoria; Bottom: Vancouver Public Li brary. (Photographs: Barry Magrill) University of British Columbia Local Chair SAH 58th Annual Meeting in Vancouver Society of Architectural Historians Non-Profit Org. 1365 North Astor Street U.S. Postage PAID Chicago, IL 60610-2144 Kansas City. Mo. Permit No. 4085 The Newsletter is published every even SAH SOCIETY OF month by the Society of Architectural Newsletter Historians (312·573·1365). Deadline for submission of material is six weeks 16 prior to publication. Send editorial correspondence and submissions for publication to David Rilkind, 375 Hillside Place, South Orange, Nj 07079: te l: 973-76n6r2; fax: 973·763-7642; e-mail: [email protected]. Material on disk or e-mail is preferable; all formats acceptable. Editors: jeannie Kim and David Rilkind SA H Officers President: Therese O'Malley 1st V. P.: Barry Bergdoll 2nd V. P.: Dietrich Neumann Secretary: Robert Craig Treasurer: john K. Notz, Jr. Executive Director: Pauline Saliga SAH e-mail: [email protected] f [email protected] SAH website: http://www.sah.org Copyright 2005, The Society of Architectural Historians. All rights reserved. In Memoriam: Philip Johnson, 1906-2005 Who among us has perfect pitch? Philip Johnson With the death of Philip Johnson on 25 January 2005, upported the Museum of Modern Art at its incep at age 98 , the Society lost not only one of the leading tion, every new generation of architects (any number Ameri can architects of the Twentieth Century and of whom were Jewish - myself included), the 1930's an important earl y force for architecture and design nee-fascist minister Father Charles E. Coughlin, Peter in American museums but also one of its long-term Eisenman's In stitute for Architecture and Urban Stud members and strong supporters. A member for more ies, Huey Long's US Senate campaign, the Society than half a century, hav ing joined in 1952, he became of Architectural Hi storians, and God knows who and a Life Member and subsequently a Benefactor what else. With Phyllis Lambert's backing (and Mies Member, the hi ghest level of membership. He served van der Rohe's bri ll iance), he helped to bring about on the Board of Directors of the Society from 1955 one of the icons of modern arch itecture (the Seagram to 1957 and was a member, from its beginning to building) even as he informed us" ... that we cannot his death, of the Bu ildings of the Un ited States not know history." He appropriated each successive Leadership Development Committee, an advisory generation of architects and their latest machinations, committee that was instrumental in spreading the albeit he was unbelievably generous with his time. word about thi s major project of the SAH and in He lectured, he taught and he wrote, as if designing helping to raise money for the series. In 1998, the buildings weren't enough to influence the direction of Society's award for the exhibition catalogue that made hi s discipline. In the spirit, if not the elevated result of the most outstanding contribution to architectural Pablo Pi casso and Frank Lloyd Wright, he reinvented history during the previous two years, which had been himself almost at wi ll , for ninety eight and one half ori ginated in 1990, was named for him, "i n honor of years- virtuall y the entire Twentieth Century. the di stinguished designer who was also instrumental What are we to make of all this, now that he is gone? in establishing the architectural exhibition as an Without forgiving or forgetting, it is muli sh to reli sh important function of museums and who, through every grudge available to us even as we measure each such work, has had a major impact on scholarship other. Ultimately, Philip helped to elevate the dis and practice." As a major fi gure in architecture, in the course of architecture, even as he referred to himself involvement of museums in architecture and design, as a "whore." He was virtuall y alone among his gen and in the activities of thi s organi zation devoted to the 2 eration to "pass the baton" to each successive genera study and interpretation of those arts, he made highl y tion of architects. He was loved and envied and hated significant contributions for which he will be long almost interchangeably, but he was always present remembered. -never absent - from an architectural di alogue that he caused to grow ever louder during hi s Century. - Damie Stillman As a critic of mine while in architecture school, if I learned anything at all , it was that architecture, how ever one pursued it, was a communicable disease to be shared, not to be held too tightly. Mixed emotion s don' t begin to express my feelings at hi s pass ing. - Stanley Tigerman On 30 April 1934, Machine Art- the seventh in a While most curators seek to identify and encourage rapid-fi re series of often bri lliant exhibitions organi zed up-and-coming artists, including thei r work in for The Museum of Modern Art by the young Philip exhibitions when appropriate, Johnson was the Johnson in just under three years- closed, eight first to conceive an entire exhi bition on the basis weeks after it opened to the public. Although the show of promise rather than performance and to place it would tour for many years, Johnson's relationship within a museum context, reversing the preferences with the Museum would hortl y, if temporarily, end : di splayed in Modern Architecture (better known as In December 1934 he resigned from the Museum the International Style ex hibition), which featured, to pursue a career in the populist currents of the far almost exclusively, architects whose reputations right of America's mid-Depression political spectrum, were based on built works. Throughout hi s career. no astoni hing the media, wh ich had fo llowed his issue seems to have vexed him more than the relative mercuri al rise to prominence in the cultural world of roles of functional and aestheti c criteri a in the design New York. process. In his early exhibitions Joh nson continuously The importance of Johnson's efforts in the early sought to define a position that would represent his years of The Museum of Modern Art cannot be confli cting desires to be equally in fl uenti al in the underestimated. In addition to their intrinsically worlds to which he had access: the intellectu al and challenging intellectual positions, the exhibitions highly aesthetici zed milieu of The Museum of Modern he organized were also, in the words of an admiring Art, and the more pragmatic arena of commerce and critic, "ultra" events that caught the attention of the industry of hi s Midwestern roots. In the Modern press and fired the imagination of the public. Perhaps Architecture exhibition, Johnson argued that the more than any other curator, Johnson was consistently two were not mutually exclusive, that the aesthetic able to shape the public's image of the Museum dimension of modernism was not irreconcilable with as a crappy David in opposition to the Goliath of utilitari an and commercial concerns. What unites his The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as a forum for efforts is a young man's self-assurance, a belief that all ll) 0 chall enging intellectual discourse leavened by wit and chall enges could be met, that every assumption should 0 C'l cleverness in an age that appreciated both. be questioned, and that no limits shou ld be placed on ·c:: Q. In exhibits like Objects 1900 and Today, Johnson the pursui t of the Art of the Now. <( allowed him self to be, somewhat perversely, a 3 defender of the unfashionable, whereas in the - Terence Riley concepti on of Young Architects, the exhibition was Text excerpted from .. Portrait of a Curator as a Young Man .. by not onl y proacti ve but extraordinarily specul ati ve. Terence Riley. Reprinted by perm ission from " Philip Johnson and The Museum of M odern An" (Studies in Modern Art 6) © 1998 The M useum of Modern Art. New York. SAH Insider City Tour: Quebec City 1650-1930 Architectural and Atlantic history intertwine closely in Quebec City. The town was founded in 1608 to establish a fur trading post - part of a network that eventuall y stretched from St-Malo to the vast hinterland of the M ississippi. In 1759 its fortifications witnessed the decisive battl e of the Seven Years War. D uring the twentieth century the Chateau Frontenac hosted a famous summit between Franklin Roosevelt and Win ston Churchill where crucial aspects of D-day were planned. These events and many others rightfully earned Quebec C ity the rank of World Heritage site in 1986. This Insider City Tour will expl ore a more immediate relationship between architecture and its human environment. The tour will expl ore landmark buildings, houses, fortified works and city quarters by paying special attenti on to the econo mic, religious and military conditions that gave rise to these buildings and gave them meaning. Taking advantage of the small area covered by Quebec City, the many wide encompassing views it offers and short walking distances between buildings, the tour proposes to present the multi-layered geographies, both natural and social, that have shaped and reshaped the city since the seventeenth century. Wednesday, 10 August, 2005 model. We w ill see how the choices by hi storians, architects and conservation specialists at the time T he Study Tour will begin with a Welcome Reception to present this neighborhood as a catalogue of past and Opening Lecture at the Hotel C larendon, where domesti c housing types embodied then dominant the tour will be based. The lecture will be given by themes of urban typology and morphology. In this Pierre-Edouard Latouche, our Tour Leader. Following regard, the Place Royale speaks today as much about the lecture, participants will be free to enjoy dinner on the architecture of New France as it does about the their own. 60's atte mpts to address housing and urban issues. The continuati on of this debate in the 1980's will be Thursday, 11 August made evident by a tour of Moshe Safdie's post-modern Musee de Ia Civilisation, completed in 1988 with 09:00-12:00 (by .foot) its many echoes to Stirling's landmark Staatsgalerie Our fi rst full day will focus on the Lower Town. This (1 984). Located a stone's throw away from Place narrow band of land wedged between the St. Lawrence Royale, this vast museum carefull y attempts to River and the escarpment of the Upper Town is the site integrate, in plan and elevation, aspects of the city's of C hamplain 's first permanent settle ment. By 1700 memory. this area displayed all the signs of full urbani zation: vertical extension of houses, high density, and the 12:00-13:30 (by .foot) beginning of landfills on the ri ver to provide new Parti cipants will be on their own for lunch on Rue St building lots. The domestic architectu re of the area Pau1 is of particul ar interest (Chevalier house ca. 1752, Guillemin house ca. 1724 ; Estebe house). We will 13:30-17:30 (by .foot) see how local and transatlantic trade had varied impact The afternoon is all about fortifications. Andre upon storage and commercial facilities within the Charbonneau, head histori an of Parks Canada and house, how building techniques were adapted for fi re author of numerous publications on defensive works in protection, and how peopl e furnished their homes. The Canada, will lead the tour. With him, we will explore visit of Place Royale and the Batterie Royale will the fortified works of the French Regime and discover allow us to evoke the ways in which merchants saw the subtle differences between a bastion, a redoute, the public domain differentl y from military and civil and a batterie explained by looking at remaining administrators. examples of theses structures. We will foll ow Chaussegros de Lery's wall of 1744, and tour the huge Between J 960 and 1975 thi s area was the obj ect of a military barracks he built in 1749 (under restoration). vast preservation initiative based on the historic city These defensive works were designed and located in response to ballistics, military strategy, demographic friars), educational (the College des Jesuites, the concerns and urban growth. Seminaire), and administrat ive (the Governor's residence). We will focus on one of them, namely Following the line of fortification the group will the large complex of the Seminaire founded by enter the Citadelle de Quebec. Built between 1820 M gr. Laval in 1663. Exemplary of this first bu ilding and 1830 following des igns by British engineers phase are the 1678 low vaults w ith lunettes of the Gather Mann and Elias Walker Durnford, the Citadel Bursar's w ing. The seigniorial revenues earned by the is an excellent example of an entrenched fortress . Sem inaire from the vast domains it possessed fi nanced Incorporating smaller fortification works dating the continuous construction activities of the eighteen th back to J 693, this is still an active military base, and nineteenth century. This will be made evident by a attesting to over 300 years of continuou s defensive visit of the archives to see the fascinating co llection of function. The highlight of the visit will be a tour of the ancient plans and drawings needed for the construction Quebec res idence of Canada's Governor general, Her and maintenance of the many water mills ex ploited by the Seminaire as feudal lord. A visit to three maj or churches and chapel of the Upper Town will conclude the morning tour: Notre Dame Cathedral (built 1684- 1844; interior destroyed by fire in 192 1 and res tored); the Anglican Cathedral, Holy Trinity, a Neo-Palladian church bu ilt between 1800- 1804; the chapel of the Ursulines. 12:00-13:30 (by foot) Lunch at the Upper Town restaurant. 13:30- 17:30 (by bus) The afternoon tour, by bus, begins with a visit of Quebec Bridge, an engineering feat begun in 1900 by the Phoenix Bridge Company of Pennsylvania, and inaugurated in late nineteenth and earl y twentieth century major 1919 after a tumultuous construction history. architectural and engineering proj ects. We will see ·;: Cl. three buildings by amateur architect Eugene Etienne <( Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson. Tache ( 1836- 19 12) which are exemplary of nineteenth .1 L ocated within the wa lls of the Citadel, the residence century eclecticism: the Second Empire Style National commands a breath taking view of the St-Lawrence A ssembly of Quebec; the French baronial military River. We will tour some of the private apartments drill hall ; the Richardsonian shingle style porter's and the 1984 addition by Guy Desbarats of a reception lodge of the Bois-de-Coulonges park ( 189 1). The room, with its elegant vau lted ceiling, somewhat tour continues with a stop at the Quebec Bridge, an reminiscent of traditional Quebec masonry vaults but engineering feat begun in 1900 by the Phoenix Bridge al o of L ouis K ahn 's Kimball art mu seum. Participants Company of Penn sylvania, and inaugurated in 19 19 will be on their own for dinner. after a tumultuous construction history. We will then go to the near by town of Cap-Rouge and pass under Friday, 12 August the little-known but impress ive railway viaduct. This steel bridge measuring over 3000 feet long was 09:00- 12:00 (by foot) built by the Dominion Bridge Company of M ontreal The second day brings the group to the Upper-Town. between 1907 and I 9 13. It was commiss ioned by the Thi area was defined earl y on by the presence of Canadian Northern Rai lway Co., which ran a line major institutions: religious (the Ursulines convent, linking Winnipeg, in M anitoba, to Moncton, New the monastery of the Augustines, and the Recollets Brunswick. continued next page Quebec City 1650-1930 [cont'd] The afternoon tour ends w ith a visit of the Hopital accompany us on this segment of our journey. The bus General. The building has been substantially will bring us back downtown, where we will have a ex panded ince its foundation as a convent in 1660. Closing Dinner. However, the original nucleus of the still active monastery- the "cloistered" courtyard, the refectory Sunday, 14 August with its paneled wa lls, and the chapel - have been kept. Although it is today surrounded by the city, the On Su nday, you are free to wander the city on your Hopital was at the time of its foundation located in the own, or fly home or on to your next destination. In the wilderness. This ex-centric position outside the town event that some people on the tour would like to plan testifies to the elaborate practice of spiritual retreat, another group visit, we will be happy to arrange it. a crucial aspect of baroque religious fervor. Si ter Helene Marqui , superior of the convent, will be our Tour Leader: host. Pierre-Edouard L arouche, of the Canadian Centre for Saturday, 13 August Architecture, will be our Tour Leader on this study tour. 09:00- 12:00 (by foot and bus) The cost of the three-and-a-half-day study tour w ill be This day will bring the group outside of Quebec $1,495.00. The Society is pleased to offer a Carroll L. City. The morning tour will beg in with a visit to V. Meeks Fellowship to an advanced gradu ate student Charlesbourg, one of only two towns designed in or new professional in a field related to arch itectural a wheel-shaped pattern in New France. With most history, theory, criticism, or practice. For information bu ildings dating from the nineteenth century and the about the study tourfel lowship and an application, original layout of the town preserved, this makes for a please visit the SAH website at www.sah.org. This charming walk. From there we will take the direction tour also will be reg istered w ith the AIA/CES program of St-Anne-de-Beaupre. The bus will follow in part the and architects can earn up to 22 credits for full old road from Quebec to Ste-Anne, with its very high participation in the tour. concentration of trad itional rural architecture. Once in St-Anne-de-Beaupre we w ill visit the cycl orama of Jerusalem. Painted in Chicago in 1880 by the same atelier responsible for the cyclorama at Gettysburg, 6 the 100 meter long canvas was installed in St-Anne shortly after its completion. It is today, according to historians of nineteenth century entertainment, one of the very few such cycloramas still in situ. Choteau Frontenac, Bruce Price, architect, Quebec City, 1893. 12:00-17:30 Participant will eat lunch on the bus on the way to La Malbaie, an hour's drive north of St-Anne. This summer resort area became popular with Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, attracted by the cool summer temperature and the extraordinary beauty of the ite. Architecturally, the area is characterized by numerous grand summerhouses, predominantly built between 1890 and 1945. Three estates, representative of the period, will be toured. Historian Phi lippe Dube, who has published the most complete guide to the architecture of the region, has kindly accepted to Gifts and Donor Support 1 December 2004 - 31 January 2005 On behalf of the SAH Board and members, we sincerely thank the members listed below who, in December and January, made gifts to a variety of funds including the Annual Appeal, the Annual M eeting Fellowship funds, the Charnley-Persky House Museum Foundation, the ARCHES Endowment campaign, and Buildings of the United States. We are extremely grateful to al l of you for your generosity and your willingness to help the Society fulfill its scholarly miss ion. SAH Annual Appeal Gail Fen ske SAH Endowment and Major Buildings of the United States David Fixler Gifts Fund Gifts of$5,000- $ 19.999 Stephen Fox Gifts of$5,000- $19,999 Richard H. Driehaus 2004 Marlene Heck Gifts of$5,000- $ 19,999 Donald I. Perry Charitable Lead Tru t A nn Huppert Anonymous Virginia Jan sen Gifts of$1.000- $4.999 G!fts of$1,000- $4,999 Stephen Jerome Fellowship Funds Orchard Foundation Cynthia Field Spence and Laura Kass Robert and Carol Herselle Henry Kuehn Rosann S. Berry Annual Gijis of$250 · $999 Krinsky Julius Lewis Meeting Fellowship Fund Richard and lnge Chafee Phyllis Lambert Christopher Mead and Michele Richard L. Hayes Jonath an and Linda Lyons Orchard Foundation Pen hall Walker John son Susan W. Schwartz Scott Opler Foundation Maureen Mei ter Richard and Karen Nicholson Lawrence W. Speck. FAIA Robert Winter Guy Metraux Carla Ya nni Damie and Diane Stillman Genevieve M iller Bryce A. Weigand, FA IA Gijis of$250- $999 Theodore and Mary M yer George 1?. Co/lim Memorial John Blew Walter Netsch Fellowship Fund Gijis under $250 Richard and l nge Chafee Marjorie Pearson Mardges Bacon David B. Brownlee Ru ell J. Donnelly Brian and Mariann Percival Gerardo Brown-Manrique John and Deborah Burns Frances Fergusson Hildegarde Perkins Karin Murr Link Jill Caskey Jean France Seymour H. Persky Charles Wood Kathryn B. Eckert and Stephen Harby William H. Pierson, Jr. Sadayoshi Omoto Richard L. Hayes Alec and Drika Purves Spiro KostofAnnual Meeting Virginia Jansen 1.() 0 Kyle Johnson and Carol Clark 0 Jonathan and Linda Lyons Rhoades Foundation Fellowship Fund C'l Dixie Sayre Miller Charles J. Robertson Gerardo Brown-Manrique Richard W. Kenyon ·;:: a.. Therese O'Malley Betsy Rosasco Virginia Jansen M ichael Lewis <( Osmund and Barbara Overby Charles C. Savage Richard Longstreth John Milgram Peter Pennoyer Linda K. Smith Betsy Rosasco Jess ie Poesch 7 William 0. Petersen Damie and Diane Stillman Gwendolyn Wright David Rash Roger and Gretchen Redden Despina Stratigakos Leland M. Roth Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Patricia Waddy Samuel H. Kress Travel A my Weisser Robert A. M. Stern Edward Wolner Fello1vships David and Jean Swetland Jeremy Wood Samuel H. Kress Foundation George and Alma Tatum Mary Woolever Stanley Tigerman Michio Yamaguch i Charnley-Persky House Carla Yanni Museum Foundation Gifts under $250 Stanley Abercrombie Elisabeth B. MacDougall Gifts of $250 - $999 Jacob A lbert Endowment Fund Susan W. Schwartz Charles Atherton Mardges Bacon Gifts under $250 Gifts under $250 Don Choi Peter Ambler and Lindsay Chicago Chapter. SAH Richard Cleary M iller Kyle John son and Carol Clark Joseph Connors Elizabeth F. Jones Robert Craig Julius Lewis Sheila Donahue William and Judith Locke Robert Duemling Rhoades Foundation Janna Eggebeen leave a legacy SAH Development Update: Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Beverly Willis responds to questions about her life and work posed by Nina Botting Herbst and Pauline Saliga. Following my interview with Kathe Henry about the Scott Opfer Endowment for New Scholars, for this edition of the SAH Newsletter Pauline Saliga and I were lucky to be able to correspond with Beverly Willis, founder of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (2002). The Foundation has recently created a new fellowship for SAH, the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation Travel Fellowship, which will be awarded to the individual whose pape1; to be presented at SA H 's Annual Meeting, 'best advances the status of women in architecture'. The first Beverly Willis A rchitecture Foundation Award will be granted in conjunction with the Society's upcoming Annual Beverly Willis [photographs Holly Hinman] Meeting in Vancouver: Ms. Willis has had a long and very successful career in architecture based, for the most part in San Council of AlA (the fi rst woman to hold th at position), Fran cisco, and has been a great champion fOJ; and I was the spokesperson for the California delegati on, example to, women in this area. A lso, in 1972, her firm and gave a short, passionate, non-divisive speech in was one of three which pioneered the development of favor of the ERA. The audi ence was moved. We won computer software for architectural use. the architects' vote. Despite that victory, nationall y, the amendment fell short. In the first of a two-part response to our questions Ms. Willis talks about her career and the challenges of In some ways, not much has changed - at least in being a woman working as an architect in the 1950s: the world of architecture . To be sure, great strides have been made. Zaha Hadid has broken through architecture's glass ceiling by winning the coveted, In 1977, the national president of AlA- a fellow San prestigious Pritzker Award, while Maya Lin is a Franciscan architect named Elmer Botsai - declared to household name. Approximately half of the students the press that he would never hire a woman architect. enrolled in architecture studies are women - but then Fortunately, I didn' t need a job at the time since I why is there such a staggering dropout rate? Why already had my own firm with about 35 employees. are onl y II % of the current AlA members women? This is just one example of the gender di vide within What's going on within the culture of architecture? architecture, especiall y during the 1970s, spurred The case of my grand goddaughter is illuminating. in great part by the debate over the Equal Ri ghts Her ambition is to be both an architect and an Amendment (ERA), the constitutional amendment engineer, and she wants to attend a west coast school. proposed in 1972 which would have guaranteed During one of the on-campus interviews last fall , women's equal ri ghts. Such debate spilled onto the the male interviewer informed her that architecture fl oor at the 1979 conventi on of AlA- where the studies were known around campus as "archi -torture" membership was going to vote whether or not to and explained why. He never once suggested that support the ERA. As president of the California architecture could be a noble and fulfilling profession, SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS 1 59 H ANNUAL MEETING Members and friends of the Society of Architectural Hi storians 26-29 April 2006 are invited to submit paper abstracts by I 0 September 2005 for the thematic sessions li sted below. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent directly to the appropri ate session Savannah, Georgia chair; abstracts are to be headed with the appli cant's name, General Chair: Barry Bergaolt pro fessional affiliati on [graduate students in brackets], and title Columbia University o f paper. Submit w ith the abstract a short resume, home and work addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. Local Chair: Robin Williams, Abstracts should define the subject and summarize the argument Savannah College of Art and Design to be presented in the proposed paper. T he content of that paper should be the product of well -documented ori ginal research that is primarily analytical and interpretative rather than descriptive in CAll FOR PAPERS nature. This Call for Papers can also be read Papers cannot have been previously published, nor presented in public except to a small , local audience. Only one submission per at http:/ /www.sah.org author will be accepted. All abstracts will be held in confidence. In addition to the themati c sessions listed below an open session is announced, listed below in alphabetical order. With the author's approval, a thematic session chair may choose to recommend for inclusion in the open session an abstract that was submitted to, but does not fit into, a thematic session. Themati c session chairs will noti fy all persons submitting abstracts to thematic sessions of the acceptance or rejection of their proposals by 30 September 2005. Those submitting to the Open Session will be notifi ed by I 0 October 2005. All session chairs have the prerogative to recommend changes to an abstract in order to coordinate it with a session program, and to suggest edi toria l revisions to a paper in order to make it sati sfy session gui delines; it is the responsibility of session chairs to info rm speakers of those guidelines, as well as of the general expectations for a session. Authors of accepted proposals must submit the complete text o f their papers to their session chair by 20 January 2006. Session chairs will return papers with comments to speakers by 25 February 2006. Speakers must complete any revisions and distribute copies of their paper to the session chair and the other session speakers by 20 March 2006. C hairs reserve the right to withhold a paper from the program if the author has refused to comply with those guidelines. Each speaker is expected to fund his or her own travel to Savannah. SAH has a li mited number of fellowships for whi ch Annual Meeting participants may apply. However, SAH's funding is not sufficient to support the travel of all speakers. For in formation about SAH Annual Meeting fellowships, please visit our Web site at www.sah.org Se ssion co mmemorating the 50th Anniversary o f the HistOJy oft he King's Works, focusing on major public buildings Society of Architectural Historians o f Great Britain: and encouraging the quasi-archaeological traditions so influential Paradigms a nd People: The British Tradition of within such public bodies as Engli sh Heri tage. Academic Architectural Historiography Archi tectural hi story has turned architectural historians have made a signifi cant contribution, but increasingly to elucidating the ways in whi ch the personae of their relatively small numbers in Britain have meant an unusual historians themselves have shaped texts about buildings and degree of importance for publicati ons stemming from work landscapes. British architectural history has been no exception, on site and in record offices and private archives. At the other and the present session, organized by the Society of Architectural end of the spectrum lie the historical aspects of periodicals li ke Hi torians of Great Bri tain, which in 2006 celebrates its 50th The Architectural Review, part of a functi onal tradition in its anniversary, aims to extend this d iscussion. Proposals are linkage to the development and work of pro fessio nal architects especially welcomed o n paradigms operati ve within the British and best typified by J. M. Ri chards. Pl ease send proposals to tradition and/or di recting our view of the history of British both joint chairs: Dr Christine Stevenson, Courtaulcllnstitute architecture. covering both those distinctive to British contexts o f Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R OR , UK, tel and those having wider international influence. Examples might +44 20 7848 2777, fax +44 20 7848 2983; e-mai l: christi ne. be Christopher Hussey's 1927 formulation of a " Picturesque" [email protected] and to Professor Maurice Howard, aestheti c from the Georg ian to the Modern; Nikolaus Pevsner's Arts Building University o f Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex conception (inspired by German precedent) of the county-by BN I 9QN, UK, tel +44 1273 606755 ext 22 18; e-mail: county Buildings of England gazetteer; or Howard Colvin 's M. [email protected]. uk Th e America n Campus a s ' Bricolage' From Thomas Berkeley, CEDR, 390 Wurster Hall , Berkeley , CA 94 720- 1839; Jefferson's ·'academical vi llage" to Pa ul Rudolph's mega-structure tel: 510- 642-4852; fax: 5 10- 643-300 I; e-mai l: nezar(cl,bcrkeley. campus for the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, edu; and to Prof. Gail Fenske School of Archi tecture, Art & the architecture of a typica l American college or university Historic Preservation, Roger Willi ams University, One Old Ferry reinfo rces its identity as a microcosm of th e city, or at least as an Road, Bri stol, RI 02809-292 1; tel: 40 1-254-3640; fax: 40 1-254- independent community. Its bui ldings and landscape features tend 3565; e-mail: [email protected] toward the visually cohesive; sometimes they are even evocative of educational ideals. Twenty years after Paul Venabl e Turner's watershed study. Campus: An American Planning Tradition Architecture, Anime and Alte rnate Landscapes In the ( 1984 ). this session revisits the topic by inviti ng papers about decades si nce Osamu Tezuka 's Astra Boy ( 1963 ), Japanese ani me American institutions of higher learning that are characterized arti sts and studios have produced a remarkable array of futu ristic by thei r ''otherness." Such campuses may be seen as the result wo rl ds, surreal spaces, and imaginary landscapes. Wo rks such as of'"bricolage," the skill of making do with "whatever is at Space Battleship Yamato ( 1974 ), Akira ( 1988) and Spirited Away hand." The French word bricolage was popul ari zed in the fie ld (200 I) present vivid alternative worlds, draw in g on sources fro m of architecture by Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter in th ei r sem inal Japanese mythology to atomi c devastation to post-modern ci ties. Collage Citr of 1978, borrowing from their reading of Levi Anim e has spurred the creation of architectural narratives and Strauss. In the context of this session, examples could range from landscapes unachi eva bl e in realms limited by physical structures. universities rehabilitati ng ava ilable buildings originally designed In spite of the visual ex uberance and spatial creativi ty of anime for non-academic uses to other kinds of creative adaptation of in spi red worlds, writings on the relationship between ani mc and the built or natural environments. Papers shou ld be analytica l in the spatial im agination remain rare, for most discussion on ani me content and may address issues of visual and social fragmentation from anthropology and Asian studies foc us mai nly on social of the campus, the impact of hricolage on institutional identity, and cultural issues. This session thus invites papers that explore the effect of bricolage on an institution communicating its the intertwi ned notions of imagin ed space and architecture in identity to outsiders, and/or other aspects of the role of bricolage ani me; or which address the re lationship between ani me and the in the meeting of town and gown. Send proposals to: Prof. production of space in visual and physical landscapes of other David Breiner, School of Architecture and Design, Phi ladelphia realms. Papers may take varied research perspectives, incl udi ng Un iversity, 420 I Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19 144; tel: 2 15- those of anthropology, Asian studies, histori og raphy, history of 951 -2597: fax: 215-951 -2 11 0; e-mail: [email protected] art and architecture, material cu lture, and visual studies. For instance, a visual analysis of the chicken-and-egg re lationship betwee n anime and digita l architecture would be as welcome as a Archite ct's Architectural Histories Throughout hi story, historical study of the commonali ties between Metaboli st designs architects have invoked hi story to justify design decisions and to and th e archi tectural landscape of 1960s Japanese an imation explain built projects in formal terms. Such uses of histo ry range such as Tezuka 's Astra Boy. We pa rticu larly welcome papers from straightforward adaptations of historical forms, theories, or fro m figures in the contemporary art worl d such as art and film styles to the more nuanced approaches of generating new forms critics, graphic designers, and digita l-effect arti sts, as we ll as and ideas that force an examination or a confro ntation with these papers that can address the subject th rough cross-cultural and histories. Current assumptions hold that the architect's invocation trans-regional channels. Andrew Perchuk, Head of Contemporary of hi story, or what we here term an "architect's architectural Programs and Research Department at the Getty Research history" is usuall y based either on a recognition that hi storica l Institute, will serve as the discussant. Send proposals to Vimalin precedents are va luable and offer lessons for contemporary Rujivacharak ul , The Getty Research Insti tute, 1200 Getty Center practice, or on the exact opposite notion, that originality requires Dr. # I I 00, Los Angeles, CA 90049; tel: 3 10 -270-8798; e-mail : a fundamental rejection of hi story. Neither assumption, however, VRujivac harakul({ogelty.ed u; and to Don Choi, Architecture recognizes th e complexities of a particular philosophical Department, California Po lytechni c State University, San Luis orientati on or artistic approach, nor shows a deep understanding Obispo, CA 93407; tel:805-784-0228; e-mai l: [email protected] of architectural hi story or its questions. Throughout the modern era, design ed ucation has also played a role in the creation of such attitudes and the ensuing uses or even abuses of history in design. Architecture in the Spanish Habsburg World: Sixteenth While architectural schools have taught history in a variety of a nd Seve nteenth Centuries The session invites studies of ways. some very rigorous and creative. the complexities and urba n and architectura l enterprises promoted or sanctioned by the subtleties of the relationsh ip between history and design arc the Spanish Habsburgs in the Old and in th e New World. By often left unexplored. This session aims to provide a forum fo r exploring the dynamism and versatili ty of the artistic policies sc holarship on these historical, philosophical, and pedagogical of the Monarqufa Universalis, the session hopes to challenge issues. We invite abstracts exploring the ways in which architects the very idea of an " Imperial" style. Recent scholarship has in different eras and different regions around the world have already brought to ligh t the multiple cross-cu ltural components invoked history in thei r work - in written, built, or imagined of the 1-labsburg dynasty and of royally-sponsored architecture form. Part icularly encouraged are papers that analyze th e bu ilt in Madrid and Casti le. For instance, research on Phili p ll's works of architects who were also scholars of architectural architectural patronage has demonstrated the infl uence of history, as well as papers that analyze wri tings about architectural Burgundian etiquette, as we ll as Flem ish (and even French) history by architects whose main domain was practice. Send architectural materials and styl isti c detai ls. Studies of buildings proposals to: Pro f. Nezar AISayyacL Un ive rsi ty of Califo rn ia at like the palace of Charles V in Granada and El Escorial, have revealed how Italian models helped shape architectural design . educations, publicati ons, associations and star systems, graphic The manner in which the political resistance (or agreement) design and architecture are intimately re lated. Buildings of Spanish cit ies and local ari stocracies to Habsburg authority can determine the images that reprc cnt them, for example both affected urban choices and implemented regional styles in Yamamoto-Moss's Cl for Frank Gchry's Weisman Art Museum. Spain, remains to be full y investigated. Jesus Escobar's book on Sign systems are integral to our experience of a space; and Baroque Madrid (2003) shows that collaboration between royal publishing partnerships like that between Rem Koolhaas and and municipal authorities was achievable under specific fin ancial Bruce Mau render inseparable the work of architect and designer. circumstances. This session welcomes papers that consider th is Edward Johnston 's London Underground Cl became the graphic political situation, and wh ich seek to read the Habsburg Empire metaphor for an entire transportation network, and architects li ke as a J'vfo11arquia de las Na9iones, not only in its international Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Ll oyd Wright left behind politics. but also in its architectural enterprises. Questions might visual identities as iconi c as those of their buildings. Based on the include the relevance of pri vate and/or regional contributions to premise that spatial experience is determined by a combination the self-making process of central monarchic imagery; fin ancing of bui lt space, the graphi cal signs within it and its visual and ownershi p. Ultimately, the session starts from the premise representati on, this panel seeks papers that consider the historical that despite its hegemony, the Spanish Habsburg dynasty never relationship between the work of architects and graphic designers produced repeatable architectural models, let alone a single or between two- and three-dimensional design in creating a architectural vocabulary that could be exported or cloned. space. Topics mi ght include: the interacti on between architcclllrc Send proposa ls to: Sabina de Cavi, CASVA, Nati onal Gallery and sign systems, di splay design, and typography in a particular of Art. 2000B South Club Dri ve, Landover, MD 20785; tel: space or type of space; editorial design and the reception of 202-842-6890; fax: 202-842-6733; e-mail: s-decavi(a nga.gov; an arch itect's work; the im pact of a Cl or succession of Cis on sabinadccavi(a hotmai l.com the identity of a parti cular building; professional relat ionshi ps between graphic designers and architects; graphic design projects Architectural Training and Architectural Education in by architects; treatments of graphic design in architectural the American South early half of America's schools of education; and the design of architectural periodi cals. The architecture arc in the South. The very beginnings of American very phrase "graphic design" situates the panel within the 20th academic architectural educati on are arguably Southern, since century, however papers addressing the relationship between Thomas Jefferson proposed an architectural program for the visual and spatial design in previous centuries and/or in cultures Un iversity of Virginia in 1824. The development of formal and geographi cal areas out side traditional understandings of architectural educati on in the South over the subsequent centuries "the modern" are strongly encouraged. Send proposals to: Sarah has taken place alongside persistent traditions of training through Teasley, Department of Art History, Uni versity of Massachusetts offi ce apprenticeshi p and on construction sites. The fact that Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth MA 02747. tel: archi tecture is now taught in Southern schools ranging from mere 508- 91 0-6472; fax 508-9 10-6977, e-mail : stcaslcy(cuumassd.cdu decades to more than a century old, points to sustained growth throughout the South in demand for architectural expertise as we ll as to openness to variance in approaches. Despite the South's Architecture and the Organic Metaphor The usc reputat ion for cultu ral conservatism, its architecture schools have of natural or organic metaphors to articul ate ideas about oft en been places of innovation in both teaching and research. architecture has taken myriad forms. Whereas in the Classical Recent exampl es include Mississippi State's Center for Small and Renaissance periods the human body was often used as a Town Research, Auburn Uni versity's Rural Studio, and the standard against whi ch to measure archi tectural proportions. University of Miami 's elaboration of New Urbanism. The South ornament, and composition, in the Nineteenth century the idea also currently hosts more than half a dozen architecture degree programs in hi stori cally Black institutions, thus contri buting of an organic architecture began to coalesce around the notion to Ameri ca ' architectural profession much of its di ve rsity. of an architecture whose forms emerged as a result of a vital Surprisin gly Iittl e of the richness of the South's co ntributions inner impulse, proposed in distinction to an architecture that to architectural education has found expression in the body of was the interpretation or imitation of a stati c transcendental architectural-hi storical scholarship. Thi s session therefore seeks ideal. Wh ile nineteenth-century organicism in architecture has papers with a Southern focus on such topics as: the training attracted sustained scholarly attention, modern and contemporary of builders in architectural design ; the architectural educati on interpretations of the organic metaphor have bee n less thoroughly of particular individuals or groups: specific architectural explored. This session asks what th e organi c metaphor can do for educators; particular architecture schools; architectural architecture. What docs it mean for architecture 's articulation if a education in pa rticular locales; the question of"Southernness" building is likened to a body, or if its genesis is said to be inspired in architectural education; and interaction between Southern by natural patterns of growth , or if it i proclaimed that its form architec tu re schools and those located in other American regions should rel ate to notions of function? Our ai m is to explore or abroad. Send proposals to: Alfred Willis (Harvey Library, twenti eth-century and contemporary invocati ons of the organi c Hampton Uni versity), 527-C Waters Edge Dri ve, Newport metaphor, but contributors are strongly encouraged to look also ews, VA 23606; tel: 757-728-6767; fax: 757-727-5952; e-mail : to that which endures from earlier exampl es. We seek papers al [email protected] that address the application of organic metaphors to issues of' structure, materials, ornament, form or organi zation, by architects and th eorists, in order to explore the connecti ons these metaphors Architecture and Graphic Design in Historical Pe rspective allow fo r, those aspects they elide and blur, and those whose While they have developed as separate professions with discrete co-existence they leave as paradoxes. Send proposals to: Diana Periton, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of are sought that examine minoritized spaces themselves, as Art, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RQ, U. K., tel:. 44 (0) 141- well as those that analyze linkages between majority/minority 353-4661; e-mail: dp [email protected]; and to Prof. Vittoria Di or colonizer/colonized places. Possible questions include: Palma. Department of Art History, Columbia University, I 190 How have majority/dominant populations or patrons created Amsterdam Avenue MC 55 17, ew York, Y I 0027; tel: 2 12- structures of(un)belonging and/or alienation - e .. g., favelas. 854-4503, fax: 212-854-7329; e-mail: vdp I @columbia.cdu lakous, bidonvilles, reservations, internment camps, shtetls, mellahs, barrios - and what forms have these acquired? How have occupants of these structures or neighborhoods shaped A rchitecture in Mo ti o n: Creating a History of Kine tic or transformed their environments, perhaps informed by their Structures By their very nature buildings resist movement; in longing for homeland or observation of religious practices? How fact, moti on may be seen as a sign of weakness or uncertainty in can we best understand th e architectural and urban relationships design. Yet over time, and most notably in the past twenty-five among classes, races, or ethni cities that create majority and years, architects and engineers have fabricated kinetic architecture minority spaces? Send proposals to: Sharon Irish, School of in response to the needs of a rapidly changing and fast-paced Architecture, 11 7 Buell Hall , MC-621 , University of Illinois, world. Utilizing computer programs, engineering technology, Champaign, IL 61820-692 1; tel: 2 17-333- 1330; fax: 2 17-244- and material advances, designers have shown that motion need 2900; email: [email protected] not be antithetical to our understanding of architecture and that it may actually make architecture more functional and exciting for its users. Yet despite its hi storical presence in elements such as A utho rship in Italian Arc hitecture 1300-1700 Italy gave us nomadic housing, medieval drawbridges, flexible interior space, the first biography of an architect in the late fifteenth century, the and revolving restaurants kinetic architecture has been left largely Life ofBrun elleschi attributed to Antonio di Tuccio Manetti, and unexplored in scholarship. Theorists and practitio ners led the way a succession of Lives of architects by Vasari , Baglione, Passeri , in the late 1960s when architect Wil liam Zuk documented his and others, who celebrated the individuality and distinctive philosophy of kineti c design, culminating in the 1970 publication achievements of their subjects. Indeed, the identification of the of Kinetic Architecture, co-authored with Roger Clark. The 1998 designers of specific bui ldings and th e definition of individual founding of the Kineti c Design Group at the Massachusetts architects' styles have been major foci of the discipline of Institute of Technology took Zuk and Clark's ideas to a more architectural history. As our discipline has expanded to embrace empirical level. Scholarship on the topic is grounded by the Vitra many other issues, the concept of authorship itself has expanded. Design Museum's 2002 exhibition and publication " Living in Recent research has explored the involvement of cl ients and Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling". This advisors in significant aspects of design; contributions of work explored the cultural notions and design innovations that assistants in an architect's workshop; design by collaboration encouraged domestic space to be adaptable and portable. Papers or competition among professionals; design in stages during are invited whi ch situate the ambition to realize all types of the course of construction; and the effect of time in projects kinetic buildings to their specific cultural, intellectual, scientific, spanning multiple generations of patrons and architects. Various and engineering contexts. Built examples are preferred over their kinds of evidence and methodologies have been employed to hypothetical counterparts. Send proposals to: Dr. Victoria M. fix design responsibility - e.g., close styli stic analysis, graphic Young, University of St. Thomas, Department of Art Hi story, evidence, and construction documents. "Myths" of authorship Mail #57P. 2 1 15 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55 105, tel: 651- have been challenged and deconstructed. New attributions have 962-5855, fax: 65 1-962-5861, email: [email protected] been proposed, even for buildings that we thought we knew well. We invite papers that contribute to our g rowing conception of authorship in Italian architecture 1300-1700 by addressing the A rchitectures of {Unbe )l o nging This session w ill focus on issue in new ways, including explorations of processes of design, recent publications of social anthropologist Michel S. Laguerre, the participation of persons who were not called "architetto," who will serve as discussant. Both Laguerre's Minoritized evidence and methodologies for our work as historians, and Space: An lnqui1y into the Spatial Order of Things ( 1999) and new attributions. Indeed, were there changes in concepts of Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City architectural authorship in those centuries? were there differences (2003) consider, among other things, minoritized diasporic and within the Italian peninsula? was the situation in Italy somehow indigenous cultures in the built environment. Laguerre's analyses distinctive from that in other places? Send proposals to: Patricia explore ways in which people have been marginalized spatially Waddy, School of Architecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse and the methods by NY 13244- 1250; tel: 315-443-5099; fax: 3 15-443-5082; e-mail: which these spaces are maintained, reproduced, and transformed [email protected]; and Theresa Flanigan, 46 Liberty Way, Cl ifton through time. Diasporic populations, as Laguerre explains, often Park NY 12065; tel: 5 18-383-5893; e-mail: [email protected] create "markers that keep alive the memory of the homeland. Such markers include the architectural forms of buildings, the style of business signs, the adornment of temples, and The Future of M a nfredo Tafuri Since his death at the age of domestic objects in the home ... These markers do not fo ll ow 59 in 1994, Manfredo Tafuri has been mourned and eulogized. the sequential regional or urban order of the old country, In special-issue journals on both sides of the Atlantic, he has but rather arc juxtaposed in a sort of coll age that follows the received ful some praise from fo llowers and trenchant critique logic of th e new place. These enclaves thus become highly from those for whom his work was not quite theoretical enough. hybridized sites because of their disparate makeup." Papers But what has followed? In addition to contemporary critical theory, architectural hi story has also absorbed a fu lly-revised landscape architecture. Send proposals to: Prof. Dorothee lmbert, standard for how hi story might be written, dating roughly from Landscape Architecture Department, Harvard Uni versity, 48 the period ofTafuri 's most intense activity. Furthermore, the many Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02 138; tel : 617-496-5352; fax: adroit contradictions embedded in his writing contin ue to evade 617-495-50 15; email: [email protected] efforts to parse, unravel, or dismi ss them. Thi s session invites investigations begun with, made possible by, or constru cted on Tafuri's work, both positively and negatively, and welcome papers Local Modernities: Re evaluating the "Traditional," that anal yze Tafuri 's contributions with a critical eye to the futu re. the "Modern," and the "Authentic" in European and Pertinent questions include: How does current history-wri ti ng Ame rican Architectural Culture, 1880-1920 How were such reflect Tafuri 's influence, and where might this lead? What aspects concepts as the "traditional," the "modern," and the "authentic" ofTafurian method remain topical, and how have th ey adapted to conceived and manifested in the architectural cultures of Europe new critical or theoretical paradigms? What can we learn about and the Americas around the turn of the Twentieth century? history-writing from Tafuri 's engagement with the Renaissance? This session invites papers that reexa mine the ri chness and How have students and colleagues responded to judgments of contingency of archi tectural meaning in European and American Tafuri 's work, and his long engagement with forms of ideology? local contexts between approximately 1880 and the end of the Where indeed does post-modern theory collide with Tafuri ? How First World War. This period, sti ll best known as an incubator has he been received, in his native tongue and in translation? Has for such later twentieth-century architectural designations as his insistence on the historian's autonomy from practice been the "modern movement" and the " International Style," the conftated wi th other forms of 'autonomous practice'? Papers decades preceding World War I, presents, in fact, a ri ch source are welcomed that lay the groundwork for a practice of hi story of debates concern ing ve rnacular tradition, an increasingly self that keeps the baby, but lets the bathwater go. Send proposals to: conscious sense of modern ity, and the maintenance of cultural Claire Zimmerman, I 00 Bleecker Street authenticity am id widespread urbani zation and industria l # liD, NY, NY 10012; tel: 212-673-6759; e-mail: expansion. Papers that explore the hybrid or contingent nature zimmcrmanclairew·aol.com; and to: Francesco Benell i, of arch itectural meaning are encouraged, as are those informed Department of Art Hi story, Columbia Un iversity, 11 90 by the methodologies of recent postcolonial or cultural studies. Am sterdeam Avenue, MC 5517 , New York, NY I 0027; tel: 2 12- It is hoped that the session will reexamine such dualistic models 854-3230; fax: 2 12-854-7329; e-mail: fb 20 [email protected] as " regional" versus "national," or "center" versus "periphery," as they relate to local struggles to develop new arch itectural meanings and forms. Papers may focus on an individual bui lding La ndscape Architecture Manifestoes A manifesto challenges or architect, an entire movement, the evolution of key terms, our accepted ideas about a fi eld, and suggests a defined hi storical or topics from urban plann ing and design more generally. moment within a specific social and esthetic context. As such, Approaches emphasizing the mu ltiple sites of architectural Rene Loui s de Girardin 's De Ia Composition des paysages, production and interpretation are especially welcome, particularly Garrett Eckbo's Landscape.for Living, and Bernard Tschumi 's if they shed new light on the tensions between received moderni st Pare de La Villette all qual ify as manifestoes in the history of historiography, on the one hand, and the hi storical specificity landscape architecture. This session will examine the connections and locality of arch itectural cul ture on the other. Send proposals between the manifesto - whether text or design - and the to: Prof. John V Maciu ika, Department of Architectural History, evolu tion of landscape practice and history. Here the manifesto University ofYirgin ia, Campbell Hal l, Charlottesville VA becomes the vehi cle to record or instigate change within a fie ld 22904-4122; tel: 434-924-6228; fax 434-982-2678; emai l: hi storically shaped by outside forces and theories. Landscape maciu ika @vir gi nia.edu architecture has traditionally been bounded and defined by its relation to proximate di scipli nes such as architecture, urbanism, ecology, and the fine arts. In the twentieth century, the scope Lo cating the Public Sphere: Places of Conviviality in of the modern landscape profession expanded from garden and the Long Eighteenth Century In his immensely influential park design to urban and regiona l planning causing a need to book, The Structural Tran4ormation of the Public Sphere, reaffirm the discipline's boundaries. Paradoxically, di scourse Jlirgen Habermas proposed that the origins of bourgeois, liberal on the mission and methods of the modern profession grew democracy lay in the exchange of uncensored ideas between more rare and frequently derivative of other di sciplines. This people of different classes. Habermas emphasized the world of session encompasses the nature(s) of the landscape manifesto letters, but he pointed to two architectura l settings as the physical in any period or locale. Papers can focus on a specifi c work or geneses of the publ ic sphere: London coffee houses and French time, or reflect a more general/comparative approach. Possible salons. Through social and convivial acts such as dri nking hot explorations include the medium of the manifesto and its liquids, eating, and informally conversing, diverse groups came di ssemination: Is a work a manifesto if no one hears or sees it? to think of themselves as sharing common interests and humanity. As it reached a wider audience, did the Engli sh word become the This session seeks to refi ne Habermas's original concept by predominant agent fo r change in the twentieth century? Papers providing a more nuanced picture of the physical space of the mi ght also address the demonstrable influ ences on landscape public sphere in the long Eighteenth century. Speakers are invited arch itecture of th eori es and practices drawn from other fi elds. to address the ways that the architecture of conv iviality created A hi stori cal cross section of these issues, and of what instigated opportunities fo r the exchange of ideas as if class and rank did change, wo uld in turn foreground the eternal question of whether not matter. Prospective speakers should identify why specific the text or the unrealized design supports the definition of sites or building types should be considered part of the public phere and demonstrate the means by which such space promoted generation of hi storians who, for the most part, viewed this era the transcendence of difference. Papers offering new insight as little more than a series of Romantic reviva ls by an insecure into coffee houses and salons are we lcome, as are papers that American public looking to Europe for cultural affirmation. examine other si tes and building types from the perspective of This is not to say that historians have not done fine work in publi c sphere cri tical theory, including. taverns, pleasure gardens, thi s period. Scholarshi p exists. but the num ber of books and and public rooms wi thin pri vate residences. Speakers might also arti cles that cover this period is di sproporti onate to the ri ch consider how archi tectural space and the fun cti ons it supported possibilities offered by the radical transformati on of America's were transformed from ari stocrati c ceremonial to bourgeois antebellum South. This session defi nes architecture broadly to informality Topics should fo cus on Europe or the New World, include landscapes and spaces shaped by human intention in th e fro m about I 675 to I 825. Send proposals to: Barbara Burl ison hope of sparking interest in and discussion of the architectural Mooney. School of Art and Art History, E. I00 Art Building, tra nsformation of the region before the Civil War. Accordingly. University of Iowa, Iowa City, lA 52242; tel: 3 I 9-335- I 785; fax: papers should seck to challenge former or current interpretations; 3 I 9-335- I 774; e-mail: barbara-mooncy(duiowa.cdu to propose new methodological approaches; to uncover or rediscover the forgotten architecture and landscapes of regions or ethnic groups wi thin the larger South. For example, the Modern Architecture's Mutations in Crossing the Ocean south ern Backcountry, which has long offered rich possibi li ti es to from Europe to the United States This session aims to bring folklorists, remains la rge ly unexplored by architectural hi stori ans. together papers that foc us on the changing nature of modern Papers mi gh t explore the more ephemeral architectures and architecture before and after the Second World War, in both land scapes of the Underground Rai lroad or the Trail of Tears. Europe and the United States. It raises questions about which They might consider architecture and landscape as part of the fac tors we re most influential in thi s change and what role was process of acculturati on of the Cherokee and Choctaw before the played by the transatlantic experi ences and rel ocati on of key . Indian Remova l Act. Papers mi ght consider the ways in whi ch figures. The most significant early mani fes tati ons of modern the nineteenth-century phenomena of fin ancial speculation, architecture called for functiona lity, sobri ety, and economy. consumeri sm, industrialization , and/or mi Iitari sm \-vcre man ife st Their focus was on social housing and utilitarian building types in th e architecture and landscape of th e ante bell um South. rather than on civic and monumental programs. Increasingly, Papers might reopen or continue debates over the origins of however, the di scourse on modern architecture began to stress America's antebellum styles, such as the Greek Revival and the aesthetic and cultural values over social ones. This transformati on Picturesque. Papers mi ght focu s on new interpretations of th e has often been observed wi th respect to the famous ex hibition industrial, urban, or rural archi tectu re and landscapes. or on the pu t together by Hitchcock and Johnson at the MOMA (The deve lopment of new institutions that required the adaptation of lmerna/iona/ Style, 1932) as we ll as in the trajectory of Giedion's traditional building types or the invention of new ones. Send wri tings. from hi s earlier books in German ( I 928, I929) to proposals to: Clifton Ellis, College of Architecture, Texas Tech Space. Ti111e and Architecture ( I 94 I), compl eted and published in University, Box 4209 I, Lubbock, TX 79409-209 1; tel: 806-742- the United States. Whi le for some this paradi gm shift amounted 3136, ext. 244; fax : 806-742-2855; e-mail : Clifton.ellis@ttu. cclu to a distortion and betraya l of the ideals of the ori ginal modern movement. for others it was a necessary expansion and critique. For still others it was more simp ly a response to new global The "Old Girl" Network? Women and the Architecture and techn ological conditions. Papers are invited that not only Community It is no secret that the "Old Boy" Network has chart the changing nature, context, and reception of modern helped many a male architect on the path to success. But what architecture in its di asporic crossing of th e ocean but offer new about te mal e architects? Have they benefi ted from an eq ui va lent and precise interpretations of the interchange in the mid-twentieth "Old Gi rl " network? If so, how did this network operate? Who century between European and American models and ideas. did it consist of and how was it formed? In America, notably, Send proposals to: Prof. Hil de Heynen, KULcuvcn, Department community invo lvement in a woman architect's career often of Architecture. Urban and Regional Pl anning, Kasteelpark made the difference between success and fa ilure. On the one Arenberg I. B-300 I Leuvcn, Belgium; tel 32- I 6-32 I 3 83; fax: hand, organized groups could nurture talent, as in the case of 32- I 6-32 I 9 84; e-mail: hildc.heyncn(wasro.kulc uvc n.ac.bc; El ea nor Raymond at the Cambridge School of Architecture and to: Joan Ockman, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study and Landscape Architecture. On the other, they could enforce of American Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, career-ending social values, as occurred between Sophia Hayden Pl anning and Preserva ti on, Columbia Uni versity, 400 Avery Hall, and the Board of Lady Managers at the World's Columbian ew York, NY 10027, tel: 2 12-854-8165; fax: 21 2-854-2 127; Exposi tion. Women architects invo lved in a community had to email: jo2@colum bia.edu balance opposing dualities like integrity or deceit and arti sti c truth or financial success. Often, they stressed or down-pl ayed their talents relati ve to a community environment. Their choices New Perspectives on the Architecture of America' s ra ise question as to their autonomy as architects and call for a Antebellum South Scholars of American architecture have reconsideration of their work within the context of soc ial survival. focused primarily on three historical peri ods: colonial; post Exploration of these ideas will establish a new framework for Civil War nineteenth century; and twenti eth century. There is measuring the success of important architects, male or female. a considerable gap in the scholarship on the architecture of the Thi s session examines the ex tent to which women architects's fi rst half of the ineteenth century, and nowhere more than in the professional development was affected by invol vement with South. Scholarship has advanced little beyond that of a former community groups. Community groups may incl ude re ligious associati ons, social organi zati ons, academi c clubs, or any other its overwhelming signifi cance outside the West has been most ly identifiab le group of individuals consisting of men or women. overlooked. In post- I 800 colonial encounters, conceptions and Papers submitted to thi s panel must defin e the comm un ity in particul arities of racial ori gi ns deeply affected the productio n of which th eir subject(s) wo rked and evaluate the advantages and architectural styles in North Afri ca, the Middle East, the Indian di advantages of that community. Topics from any country Subcontinent, and the Far East. From Japan to Morocco, the and time period arc welcomed; those conducting research on ru ling elite of those states that mainta ined pol itical hegemony, lesser-know n. un known, or anonymous women architects are though vicarious, and sustained updated state institutions and pa rticularly encouraged. Submit proposals to: Prof. Catherine W. infrastructure, found architectural representation pivotal to Zipf, Cultu ra l and Hi storic Preservati on Program, Salve Regina the power susta inability. For example, duri ng the I 90 I Orient Universit y. 100 Ochre Point Ave., Newport, Rl 02840, tel: (40 1) or Ro111 e debate, when Italian archeologist Giovann i Rivo ira 34 I -3205, fax: (40 I) 34 I -2996; e-mail: Catheri ne.Zipf@salve. argued that the origin of Western architecture was to be found cdu in Roman ingenuity, Austrian art histori an Josef Strzygowsk i implored enth usiasts and skeptics to trace Western prototypes "not to Persia, but to Aryan Iran." By the mid- 1930s, Iran's O pen Session ew research and interpretations welcomed in intelligentsia not only appropriated thi s argument in asserti ng th at all fie lds. Send proposals to: Cynthia Field, 2638 Woodley Pl ace, pre-Islamic Iran housed the origin of al l "Aryan types," but also W. Washington, DC 20008; tel: (202)-357-2064 or (202)-265- embarked on a compl ex project of remaking its built environment 0625: cell phone: (202)-486-5 I 8 I; fax: (202)-633-9324; e-mail: by (rc)producing that which Strzygowski had call ed "Aryan f1cldcv c7L yahoo.com and/or or fic [email protected] Architecture." In European quarrels, Ira ni an hi storians and architects fo und the basis to strengthen Iran's claims to national sovereignty and ethno-cultura l superiority vis-a-vis the West. Th e other Modernism: (appropriating) Modern Thi s session will investigate the techn iques by wh ich categories Architecture in Eastern Eu rope Moderni sm developed on ofracc were (rc)presented in specific architectural works in a large scale in central and eastern Europe, where it's early the non-West. It addresses the question of how arch itectural adoption was no mere matter of fashionable emulation, but economics helped defin e conceptions of racia l origins that then renccted a desire fo r European integration, modernizati on and, lent themselves to political will. How the local elite manipulated, in many cases, westernization. Indeed, the coun tries of the area co-opted, and appropriated its colonizer's ethno-architectural were fo r the most part onl y recently independent states, the theori es and reconci led indigenous historical, archeological, and borders largely drawn at the conclusion of the First Worl d War, philological sources with imported ideas about thei r own nat ional without regard fo r historical background. Modernism, as emblem lineage? Furthermore, how did indigenous hi storiographies map of the progress and dynami sm promoted by Western architects, their architectural trad itions in the mai nstream artistic canon was embraced with such an ent husiasm that in some Central as a form of anti-colonial resistance, still often equally raci st and Eastern Eu ropean countries it became a vehicle of their new and despotic, or as a technique of un iversalist adherence? Send identity. For instance, Czech architects turned it into a nati onal proposals to: Ta l inn Gri gor, lttleson Fellow, Center for Ad va nced symbol. whi le in Croatia and Romani a interwar moderni sm is Study in the Vi sua l Arts. National Gallery of Art, 2000B South sti ll seen as a "golden era". Becoming an ·'international style", Club Drive, Landover, MD 20785; tel: (6 17) 669-95 18; email: modern ism was a guarantee of integrat ion even as it served, tali nd g(tnhotmaiI . com. paradoxically enough, at the sa me time to promote and create identities and became a vehicle of part icularism. If the label of ·'Eastern Eu rope" appeared as a homogeneous concept to the Refl e cting on an "appropria te mode rnity" in and fo r Latin Westerners (who fabricated it), this was not the case fo r insiders Ame ri ca Lat in American architecture has too often been treated who clai med thei r di tinctivencss. Since most of the countries of as a block when in fact there are enormous local di fTerenccs. the area were young nations, they have particul arly encouraged Si nce the I 980's, la rger accoun ts of modern ism and moderni ty the study of fo lklore and vernacular culture as a form of national have been produced, and architectural hi storians and re levant identity. The session aims to contribute to the adva ncement of the practicing architects in Latin America are engaged in a debate study of moderni sm in Eastern Europe with pa rt icul ar attenti on about an "appropriate moderni ty," a term coined by the Chi lean to the tension between modern ization and identity. What were criti c Cristian Fernandez Cox. When presenti ng his approach. the model s of Modern architecture in thi s area? What were Cox asserted, "For us modernity is sti ll a pend ing idea." the manners of it s appropriation and its specific development? Concu rrent wi th this reassessment , Mari na Wa isman advanced Papers are welcome on all countries of the Fonner Eastern Bloc. the need of"an interpretation able to respond to our own va lues but contributions on such less studied countries as the fo rmer and questions" not judged by outside standards. Contrary to Yugoslavia. Bulgaria, Romania, and Alba nia are particularly other approaches, such as critical reg ional ism, that originated encouraged. Send proposals to Dr. Carmen Popescu, 7, rue de outside Latin America. or the literature and artistic move ment ' Ia Mare. 75020 Paris, France. tel: 33- I -43. I 5.09.63: e-ma il : use of the fan tastic and magical as the source of Latin American cnm (a noos. fr architectural un iqueness, "app ropriate modernity" emerged as a result of meetings of historians and practitioners from Latin America, who adopted it to understand and criticize Latin Race and Architecture in the Colo nia l Non-We st While Ameri can architectu ra l production. The debate centered on the the sociopol itical and hi stori ographic impact of racial debates questio n: was modern ization and the appropriation of modernity's has been studied wi th regard to Western architectural cu lture, va lues an appropriate response to the particul ar architectural and urban context, history, time, and place of Latin American planning. This session seeks papers that elwell not on Martines' countries? This session 's objective is to explore the multiple, "impressive and tri umphal vo ids," but on less exalted, workaday differing and sometimes contradictory answers to that question. spaces that we re transformed through various accretions or With in the general framework of the search and debate about an subtractions in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Papers appropriate modernity, thi s session welcomes papers that explore arc sought which examine the ways in which Medieval and modern and contemporary architecture and design in Latin Rena issance spaces we re al tered, either through the re use of America, seeking to analyze and critically interpret them within older spaces for new purposes or through the incremental the context from whi ch they emerge, examining the particular and accidental reordering of space over time. Subjects may circumstances and ways in which they were conceived, evolved include analyses of the changing archi tectural framework of and were interpreted. Send proposals to Jose Bernardi, School civic spaces, as well as the additions of scul ptures, fountains, of Design, Arizona State University, PO Box 2105, Tempe, AZ plaques, ga llows, or pav ing decorations that modified the use or 85226, tel: 480- 965-9149; fax: 480- 965-9717; e-mail : jose. interpretation of the space. Intersections, thoroughfa res, parish [email protected] u.e du church squares, courtyards, cemeteries, bridges, and ports arc also potential topics. The scope coul d encompass the major meeting place for a city or be confined to the gathering point for Rhetoric and Architecture after Renaissance Humanism a single neighborhood, arc also topics of interest. Submissions ( 1600-1900) The importance of rhetoric as a model for should address the ways in which urban spaces metamorphosed, architecture during the Renaissance is we ll studied. Scholars have were conditioned by the archi tecture around them, and how explained how Quattrocento theorists in need of fi rm rules for the architecture and the space interacted through enclosure, architecture have borrowed principles of th is theory of human pe netration, li mitation of access, or spatial clarification. Send communication laid down in antiq uity. They have shown that proposals to: Abby McGehee. Oregon College of Art and Craft, Renaissance architects could even follow methods developed in 8245 SW Barnes Road, Portland, OR 9722; tel: 503-249-40 I; fax: rhetoric in their creative process. Rhetori cal concepts such as 503-297-965; e-mail : amcgehee@,ocac.cdu inventio, dispositio, or decorum became categories th rough whi ch architects went about their work and by which their creations could be discussed and judged. This session wi ll consider Vitruvius and the State of Princes, 1450-1700 Vitruvius the relationship between rhetoric and architecture after their has been and continues to be a staple referent in the scholarship Renaissance symbiosis and up until rhetori c's decline during the on early modern architectural theory. But since the publi cation Nineteenth century. Papers are invited whi ch trace the evolution over 50 years ago of Wittkowcr's Architectural Principles in 1/te of the rhetorical model in the art of buildi ng, particularly when Age of Humanism, Eng li sh-speaking histori ans ofVitruv ianism that di scipline came in contact with other concepts developed have tended, overwhelmi ngly, to read Vitruvian theory purely as in the physical and human sciences during the Baroque peri od, theory, relative to architecture and philosophy but rarely, if ever, the Enlightenment. or the Industrial Age. Did the waning releva nt to politics. Yet Vitru vian theory appears to have been of humanistic studies that began in the Seventeenth century bound to political circumstances from the very beginning. In change the status of rhetoric in the visual arts? Did the scientific the service initially of Julius Caesar du ring the latter's meteoric revolution shake the foundati ons of an architectural theory based ri se to autocratic rule, Vitruvius wrote in the mid-first century on persuasive expression? What happened to the rhetorical BCE, at the fa ll of the Roman republic and the begin ni ng of the model in architecture when sensation and embodiment \vere reign of Augustus Caesar, the fi rst Roman emperor to whom first addressed in theori es of knowledge? Did the emergence of he dedi cated hi s treatise. "Rediscovery" of and in terest in De architectural hi story in the Eighteenth century shatter the belief arcltitectura, far surpassing any recorded in antiqu ity, began in in the uni versal system of ex pression proposed by rhetoric? Can earnest with the fall of republics and the rise of principalities in nineteenth-century concepts of style and "organic unity" be the northern Italian Quattrocento. Hi s virtual apotheosis at the legitimately traced back to their rhetorical origi ns? Deta iled case courts of humanist princes was followed in turn by degenerat ion studies on the theory and/or practice of architecture are especially into irrelevance as power gradually shi fte d from the persons encouraged. Send proposals to: Jean-FranGo is Bedard, Visiting of popes and ki ngs to impersonal modern states. Are these Scholar, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920, rue Baile, connections purely an accident of chronology? Or, all ied as Montreal, Quebec, 1-1 3 1-1 2S6 Canada; tel: 514-939-7000; fax: the theory deliberately was to natural and cosmic hierarchies, 5 14- 939-7020; e-mail : [email protected] was legitimation of monarchical institutions through building integ ral to Vitruviani sm as such? It is within th is framework that the session invites submi ssions which address the possible Spatial Negotiation in Medieval and Renaissance Cities, politi cal uses to whi ch Vitruvi us was put between 1450 and 1200-1600 Since the publication of Hen ri Pirennc's Medieval 1700. Especially encouraged are contributions that exami ne the Cities, scholars have traced the development of urban spaces in specific contexts in which treatises, tra nslations and editions of response to economi c, political and ritual exigencies. In Trexler's De arcltitectura appeared duri ng th is period. Proposals for papers and Martines' work on Fl orence and other Renaissance Italian presenting evidence for reasons to quest ion the premises outlined ci ti es, urban space was claimed by a number of constituencies, here are particul arly welcome. Send proposals to: Dr. lndra creating a map of civic power relations, and clear di stinctions McEwen, 3908 Pare Lafontaine, Montrea l, Quebec, H2L 3M6, were made between the grand projects of lords and churchmen Canada; tel: 514-522-9380; email: indra.mcewcn(a sympatico.ca and the increasingly inchoate and marginalized spaces of the underclasses. More recently, scholars like Trachtenberg have nuanced these polariti es, recognizing other models for civic nor did he offer encouragement. I was stunned. I building we owned. Nearby stood a 24-acre parcel thought the tactics of discouragement, demeaning the - bulldozed fl at during the 50s urban redevelopment possibilities of women's contributions had ended. efforts with an ugly story of displacement and Why have I established the BWAF? Well, there is lawsuits. I sensed that it was timely to develop the site. obviously a need. BWAF is based on the belief that Collaborating with the San Francisco Redevelopment women should be full players in all aspects of the offi cial in charge, I solicited the interes t of maj or architecture prof ession. Simply put, the equ ality of developers across the nation. One, Olympia and York, women extends to the field of architecture. was interested. Concurrently, I asked Z iedler-Roberts Partnership to be the lead Joint Venture architect, as Though it ounds paradoxical, I had the advantage the fi rm had designed similar proj ects. I also became of establishing my practi ce prior to the women's movement - and all the acrimony that came w ith it. a developer-partner with Olympia and York and M arriott Hotels. We entered the internati onal des ion- Before the women's movement, 1, like many, forged o build competition conducted by the Redevelopment ahead without realizing the degree to which women Agency in J 980 and won. Three years later, when architects had been sidestepped, overlooked, ignored the fi nal conceptual site plans and building concepts and - to use a word from the civil rights movement -whitewashed. were completed for Yerba Buena Gardens, they were exhibited at the San Francisco Museu m of A rt, Let me give another personal example. By the late including a companion catalogue. seventies, my office was located in a downtown office It was a matter of policy, really, th at Beverly Will is all drawings, renderings and models be labeled with the both names of the j oint venture architects. Yet just prior to the ex hibition opening and catalogue publication, by V) some mysterious hand, " Willis 0 0 and Associates A rchitec ts- Joint ~ ·;: Venture A rchitects" was airbrushed a.. off the documents. It still remains ~ a mystery. M eanwhile, the 9 museum belated ly published an errata- an attempt to correct the injustice. This is why few know of my work on the Yerba Buena Gardens. A nd, this is one example of how women have been written out of architectural history. Learn more about the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation at www.bwaforg. On Plagiarism Desio-n where he had been teaching for 30 years- a Last June, I received a letter out 0 0 seasoned academic, then, whose work would contmue of the blue from a reader in the to serve as a role model for students. UK who described himself as a After still more reflection, I weighed the remorse I knew I would feel in causing pain in another person recreational reader of architecture versus my sense of injustice over the pilfering of my books and an avid amateur building material. I thought of all the hours I had invested in my research, the scores of interviews I conducted with He informed me that my book, Pietro buff. Belluschi shortly before he died, the numerous trips I Belluschi. Modem American Architect, published took to and from Portland largely at my own expense, by the MIT Press a decade ago, had been seriously the days and weeks spent flying back to Syracuse to plagiarized. Having just returned from abroad and verify the Belluschi documents there in the library, facino- a mountain of emails, I thought little more 0 plus all the connections I had made, between, for about it, and other than mentioning the allegation example, the Equitable Bu ilding and the Chicago to the MIT Press, I did nothing about it. Several School, all the information I had tracked down, for weeks later, however, curiosity got the best of me, example, on the genesis of Belluschi 's design and and I borrowed the book in question from the li brary hi s conversation with J. Paul Raven, the head of the to determine what grounds, if any, was behind the Bonneville Dam Administration, which led to the idea allegation. I was shocked. Unti l then, I had had no of using aluminum, the insights I had had after years knowledge of the book, Structures o.f Our Time. 31 of research on the building- all this was now regarded Buildings that Changed Modern L!fe, nor had I ever as Shepherd's. Learning that hi s book was on the come heard of its author, Roger Shepherd. A quick readin o- li st for the Introduction to Architecture course scan of the table of contents led me to the chapter on 0 at U-C Berkeley, my alma mater, only exacerbated my Pietro Belluschi, and to an uncannily familiar text. sense of injustice. At the very least I wanted the record As I began reading, I realized that Shepherd had not set straight about who wrote what. only appropriated virtually verbatim whole portions of my text, but that he had al so used my argument, I then checked with a lawyer in the Attorney General's fio- ures and footnotes with no reference to my work office at the U. W. He too said that he had never 0 ' whatsoever anywhere in hi s book. It was so blatant seen such an egregious example of one author's a case as to be sophomoric, yet too adroitly handled appropriation of another's work. He thought the 10 to have been done by a novice. Having read about violation went well beyond plagiarism, which is plagiarism but never having met anyone who had an ethical and moral wrongdoing, and represented actually encountered it except among students, I asked a case of copyright infringement, which is illegal. around my two departments, architecture and art He further suggested I send a copy of the two tex ts, history, what others had done in similar circumstances. mine and Shepherd's, with the telling paragraphs No one actually knew of a case. underscored, to Roger Conover, my editor at the MIT Press. Upon receiving an underscored copy of When I showed Shepherd 's and my texts to the two texts, Conover immediately forwarded it to colleagues, the reaction was unequivocal. No one William Strong, who is MIT Press's lawyer and also could believe how extensively and literally my ideas an expert on copyright law and author of the standard and sentence constructions had been lifted. Several book on the subject [Copyright in the New World of people, however, pointed out to me that were I to take Electronic Publishing]. Strong drew up a comparison action, Shepherd might lose hi s job. My own qualms chart (for a copy, email me at [email protected] coupled with th is kind of implicit social pressure made based on my underscored texts, and sent it and an me hesitant to pursue it further. With further thought, accompanying letter to Shepherd and to McGraw Hill, however, it did not seem right to do nothing, and I the publisher of Shepherd's book. Several publications concluded the ethical thing to do was to speak up, were al so notified, including Architectural Record, especially knowing Shepherd held an endowed chair where Shepherd served and perhaps still serves as in the Department of Fine Arts at Parsons School of SAH International Symposium web page designer, and The Chronicle of Higher The program for the second SAH international Education, whose senior editor, Scott McLemee, took symposium, organi zed with the INHA, is now posted an immediate interest in the case. After interviewing on the web sites of both the SAH (www.sah.org) Shepherd , Conover, Strong, Paul Goldberge r and and the INHA (www.inha.fr). The meeti ng will be myself, McLemee wrote a short, poignant artic le on held from 1-4 September 2005 in the INHA's newly the case that pointed out I was not alone in being renovated quarters in the hi storic Galeri e Colbert, a plagiari zed by Shepherd LScott McLemee, "Plagiari sm nineteenth century skyli t shopping arcade adjacent to by Design," Chronicle o.fHigher Education (24 Henri Labrouste's Bibliotheque Nationale, the site of September 2004) p. A 18.]. The previous year, one of the planned receptions. Princeton Architectural Press had complained to Each of the three days of meetings is devoted to one Shepherd about several of its publications being of the three subthemes of the shifting boundaries the "borrowed" by Shepherd in the same book, again call for papers set out to address: changing spatial without attribution. boundari es, changing temporal boundari es, and As Strong demanded, Shepherd (who had received changing disciplinary boundaries. An international a $30,000 advance for his book) sent me a letter of array of speakers was choosen in Feburary by a apology. ln addressing me, Mr. Shepherd misspelled planning committee; they will speak in plenary my name-- trivial but telling. He also began by sessions in the morning and the n in satellite sessions acknowledging that he should have written sooner, (5-6 per afternoon running parallel). A session on but that he had been busy preparing for classes new technologies in architectural hi story is planned -evidentl y a higher priority. Far more importantl y, for early arri vals on the afternoon of 3 1 August. In he blamed 9/ 11 and the work of research assistants addition, key-note speakers from other disciplines for what happened. Moreover, he maintained that have been invited for each of the three the mes. the portions of my text were onl y " roughed in ," and The conference wi ll be opened by art hi storian/ that he had inte nded to go back and rewrite them, archaeologist Alain Schnapp, Director of the lnstitut thus tacitly admitting that he had no intention of National d' Histoire de I' Art. In addition to receptions crediti ng my work but onl y covering up hi s tracks. and a gala closing dinner, a vari ety of visits in and I() 0 And si nce Paul Goldberger, recentl y appointed dean around Paris will be offered on Sunday 4 September. 0 ('I at Parsons. had not known of the plagiarism charge The registrati on fee for the conference is 150 euros (30 before McLe mee brought it to hi s attention, it wa. euros for registered students), with additional charges clear Shepherd hoped the problem woul d simply go for the final d inner (40 euros) and for visits ( I 0 euros II away. It was only after Conover brought the case to for tours within Paris and 25 euros for vi sits outside the attention of MIT Press's lawyer and the media, the city). A registration form will be posted after and the issue became publi c, that under pressure from April 30th on the INHA web site by earl y summer: Goldberger, Shepherd resigned from his position at www.inha.fr; and fL1th er details about registration Parsons. can be consulted after th at date on both the SAH and Copies of Shepherd's book, though no longer on the INHA web sites. For any additional que rri es please market, are still readily available on Amazon.com contact Madame Mari on Jully at INHA (marion. and remain in libraries across the country if not the jully@ inha.fr). world. The MIT Press is working on thi s problem by For the convenience of those traveling to Pari s on a notifyi ng librari es of the infringement, but even their budget the INHA has reserved a block of rooms at the best effort will not completely set the record straight. C ite U niversitaire, the famous modernist campus of Plagiari t can be punished, and their offenses made national dormitories of Paris Uni versity in the 14th public, but there seems no way that the damage, once arrondissement, a short ride ( 15 min.) from the center done, can be reversed. of Paris on the RER (regional subway). Instructi ons on booking rooms w ill be included on the registration - Meredith L. Clausen form. University o.l Wa shington News Events JSTOR 's new search engine and search interface Preserve and Play Conference are now available at www.jstor.org. 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Metric Space (detail shown}, 2004. 312 gelati n silver prints, 150 x 400 em . [Collection, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal © Dieter Appelt.] Paul Rudolph and the Architecture of the UMass V Iberian DOCOMOMO Conference Dartmouth Campus will include lectures, panel 26-29 October discussions, a walking tour and an ex hibit of the Barcelona architect's original drawings for the campus on 13 April. The symposium's guest scholars and UMa s In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding Dartmouth faculty w ill consider the historical and of GATEPAC, the Spanish avant-garde group related artistic record of the campus and probe the deeper to the ClAM which was instrumental in spreading meanings of its design. The sy mposium is part of the modern movement throughout the Iberian the univer ity 's " Breaking New Ground " initiative peninsula, the Iberian DOCOMOMO Foundation commemorating the campus's 40th anniversary. and the Catalonian Architectural A ssociation (Collegi M ost events are free and open to the public, and will d' Arquitectes de Catalunya) are organizing the V be held in the library's first floor Browsing Area. A Iberian DOCOMOMO International Conference, dinner. to be held at 5 p.m. in the Campus Center The GATCPAC and its Time. Politics, Culture and Sunset Room. requires advance registration and is Architecture in the Thirties. Participants in the $25 per person. A noontime walking tour is free but conference, which is directed by Antonio Pi zza and requires advance registration. coordinated by Paolo Sustersic, include Oriol Bohigas, Alvaro Siza, Juan Jose Lahuerta, Eric Mumford , Laura For information and reservations, ca ll Bruce Barnes Di Biag i and Jose Carlos M ainer. The deadline for at 508.999.8666 or visit the sympo ium's web site at: submission of papers is 3 1 M arch. www.lib.umassd.edu/ ppages/prudolph/welcome.html The V Conference will discuss the diffusion and The sy mposium's program features three morning reception mechanisms of the M odern M ovement in presentations by guest speakers: Spain and Portugal, focusing on the proposals and '·Enriching M odernism: Paul Rudolph and Postwar ideas that the GATCPAC (the Catalonian and most Architecture," Timothy Rohan, assistant professor of active of the three GATEPAC's sections, led by J. art history at UMass Amherst; L. Sert and J. Torres Clave) developed trough their " Brutal ism: An Architecture of Exhilaration," Helene contacts with the international avant-garde. The 10 Sroat, independent scholar in art history; 0 GATCPAC's intense acti vity, which was interrupted 0 .. The M aster Plan: Its Design and Execution," Grattan by the Spani sh Civil War, represents the most ('I Gill, architect, a former associate of Paul Rudolph 's important Spanish contribution to the archi tecture and and a retired professor of architecture at Roger urbanism of the Thirties, as testified, for instance, by I' Williams University. Gill will lead a walking tour of the Pl an M acia ( 1932-35), which was developed in ·' the campus, for which advance registration is required. collaboration with Le C01·busier. Beyond architectural At 7 p.m. , Rohan will deliver the keynote speech: and urban themes, GATCPAC's aim was to define " Interpreting UMass Dartmouth: Paul Rudolph and the a new soc ial role for architects in conjuncti on with Single- Vision Campus." the visual arts, graphic des ign, industrial design, photography, literature and cinema, as refl ected in Freemasonry at The Octagon the publication of the review A.C. Documents of 18 M ay - 3 1 December Contemporary Activity. Washington, DC The conference will discuss not only the Iberian Peninsula, but also direct and indirect relationships In an unprecedented collaboration with the Grand w ith other intern ational references such a Germany, L odge of Free and Accepted Masons of the District of France, Italy and the Soviet Union, among others. The Columbia. and artist Peter Waddell, The Octagon, the conference is comprised of four sections: " Politics Museum of The American Architectural Foundation is and Architecture," "GATCPAC and its domestic and organizing an original ex hibition focusing specifically intern ational connections," "Architecture and City on the interesting and significant contributions M anagement" and " Image Culture." of Freema ons to the design and architecture of M ore information and the call for papers are available Washington, DC. at www.coac .net/docomomo5. Booklist Recently publi shed architectural books and related works. ARCHITECTURAL D ESIGN selected by Barbara Opar. Syracuse Uni versity Library Koster, Helmut. Dynamic Daylig!tting Arc!tilecture: Basics, Srslems, Projecls. Basel ; Boston: Birkhause r. 2004. 463p. ISBN REFERENCE WoRKS 376436730X $82.95 Marmor. Max and Alex Ross. Guide lo !he Lilera/ilre of An His101y 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005. 899p. A RCHITECTURAL THEORY ISB N 0838908780$195.00 Venturi. Robert and Denise Scott Brown. Archileclure as Signs and Syslems: For a Mannerisl Time. Cambridge, Mass. : D ICTIONARIES Belknap Press of Harvard Uni versity Press. 2004. 25 1p. ISBN CampbelL Gordon. Renaissance Arl and Archilec/ilre. New York: 0674015711 $35.00 Oxford University Press. 2004. 278p. ISBN 0 19860985X $45.00 ARCHITECTURE-I NDIA ARCHITECTS Merklinger, Elizabeth Schotten. Sul!anme Arc!tileclilre of Pre CepL Jasper, eel. Hans Kollhojj: Kallhoff & Timmermann Mughallndia. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharial Publishers Archilec/s. Mi lan: Electa Architecture. 2004. 440p. ISBN Pvt. Ltd., 2005. 174p. ISBN 8 12151 0880$63.00 19043 13272 $69.95 ARCHITECTURE-ITALY Frampton, Kenneth and Joseph Rykwert. Richard Meier: Schulz, Juergen. The New Palaces of Medieval Venice. Archilecl, 2000/2004. New York: Ri zzoli International University Park, PA: Pennsy lvania State Uni versity Press. 2004. Publications, Inc., 2004. 432p. ISBN 084782702X $80.00 340p. ISBN 02710235 11 $85.00 Harwood, John and Janet Parks. The Troubled Search : The Work ARCHITECTURE- PACIFIC NoRTHWEST of Max Abramowil~. New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wa ll ach Art Ritz, Richard Ellison. Archilecls of Oregon: A Biographical Gallery. Columbia Uni versity. 2004. 160p. ISBN 18849 19162 Diclionary of Archilec/s Deceased-- 19/h and 201ft Cenluries. $35.00 Portland, Oregon: Lair Hill Publishing. 2002. 462 p. ISBN 0972620036 $29.95 Heuve L Dirk van den and Max Risselada, eds. Alison and Pe!er Smilhson:fromlhe House a./the Fulltre loa House o.fToday. Luxton. Donald. Building the West: The Early Archi1ec1s of Rotterdam: 0 10 Publishers, 2004. 238p. ISBN 9064505284 Brilish Columbia. Vancouver. B. C.: Talonbooks. 2003. ... $72.50 CIJ :t: A RCHITECTURE, C o LONIAL-NEw S PAIN CIJ Kuma, Kengo. Kengo Kuma: Materials, Structures, Details. Lara, Jaime. Citv, Temple, Swge: Eschmological Archileclure 1CIJ Boston: Bi rkhauser. 2004. 136p. ISBN 376437 1226 $65.00 :z and Lililrgical Thea1rics in New Spain. Notre Dame: University :r: of Notre Dame Press, 2004. 299p. ISBN 0268033641 $65.00 ;-;; Makinson. Randell L. and Thomas A Heinz. Greene & Greene: Crealing a S!vle. Layton: Gibbs Smith Publisher. 2004. 96p. ARCHITECTURE, MODERN-21 ST C ENTURY ISBN 1586851160$19.95 Moneo, Jose Rafael, trans. by Gina Carino. Theorelical Anxietv and Design S1rmegies in !he Work (d Eighl Conlemporary Perouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie. Jacques-Germain Sou.ff/ol. Archi1ec1s. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. 4 16p. ISBN Paris: Les Editions du Patrimoine. 2004. 142p. ISBN 0262134438 $39.95 2858227527 $75.00 ARTS & C RAFTS MovEMENT PowelL Robert and Aaron Betsky. Th e Archilecture of Soo Chan. PowelL Jane and Linda Svendsen. Bungalow: The Ullimale Arls Mulgrave, Australia: Images Publi shing Group, 2004. 255p. & Crafts Home. Layton: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2004. 286p. ISB N 1920744207 $60.00 ISBN 158685304X $50.00 Schedler. Uta. Filippo Brunelleschi: Sy111hese von Amike und B UILDING MATERIALS Mine/alter in der Renaissance. Petersberg: Michael Imhof, 2004. Croft, Catherine. Concrele Architecwre. Layton: G ibbs Smith , 144p. ISBN 3937251855 $89.50 Publisher, 2004. 240p. ISBN 1586854607 $45.00 Spuybroek. Lars. NOX: Machining Archileclltre. London: Hyatt, Peter. Creal Glass Buildings: 50 Modern Classics Thames & Hudson, 2004. 389p. ISB N 0500285195 $49.95 - Designing Wilh Glass. Mulgrave. Victori a, Australi a: Images Publishing Group, 2004. 240p. ISBN 186470 11 29 $65.00 Wright, Frank Lloyd. Peter Shedd Reed, William Kaizen and Kathryn Smith. The Show To End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wrigh1 B UILDING TYPES a11d !he Museum of Modem Arl, /940. New York: Museum of Adam, Juergen. Indus/rial Buildings: A Design Manual. Boston: Modern Art. 2004. 240p. ISBN 0870700553 $25.00 Birkhauser. 2004. 246p. ISBN 376432175X $ 11 8.00 Buzas. Stefan. Four Museu111s: Carlo Scarpa. Musco Canoviano, INTERIOR D ESIGN Possagno: Frank 0. Gehry. Guggenhei111 Bilbao Museum; Rqfael Cornforth. John. Early Gem :~ ian lllleriors. New Haven. Conn.: Mo11 eo. rhe Audrey Jones Beck Building. MFAH: Hein::_ Tesw; Yale University Press. 2004. 360p. ISBN 0300 103301 $$85.00 Sammlung Essl, Klosrerneuberg. Stuttgart: A. Menges. 2004. 222p. ISBN 3930698684 $270.00 lANDSC APE ARCHITECTURE Beck. Haig and Jackie Cooper. Traer: Landscape Archirecrs Heller. Vivian. The Ciry Benemh Us: Building rhe New York and Planners. Mulgrave. Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing Sub11·ays. ew York: W. W. Norton & Co .. Inc .. 2004. 248p. Group, 2004. 264p. ISBN I 876907363 $60.00 ISBN 0393057976 $45.00 Tay lor, William. The Viral Landscape: Nmure and rhe Buill Tilden. Scott J. Archirecrure for An: American Arr Museun1s. Environme111 in Ninereenrh-Celllury Brirain. Burlington. Vermont: 1938-2008. New York: Abrams. 2004. 240p. ISBN 08 I 094960 I Ashgate. 2004. 252p. ISBN 0754630692 $79.95 $60.00 M ASTERWORKS CLASSICISM I N ARCHITECTURE A rthur. Catherine Rogers and Cindy Kelly. Ho111ewood House. Gabriel. Jean Francois. Classical Archireuure.for rhe Twenty Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni versity Press, 2004. 173p. ISBN Firs! Cenrury: An lnrroducrion ro Design. New York: W. W. 0801879876 $35.00 Norton. 2005. 240p. ISBN 039373076X $49.95 Clausen. Meredith L. The Pan Am Building and rhe Sha11ering G ROUND Z ERO ofrhe Modernisr Drea111. Cambridge. Mass.: M IT Press. 2005. obel. Philip. Si.rreen Acres: Archirecrure and rhe Ourrageous 477p. ISBN 0262033240 $45.00 Srmggle for rhe Furure of Ground Zero. I st Ed. ew York: Metropolitan Books. 2005. 288p. ISBN 0805074945 $25.00 Zaknic. Ivan. Le Corlmsier: Pavilion Suisse: Th e Biography ofa Building. Basel: Boston: Birkhauser. 2004. 4 16p. ISBN HousiNG 3764300094 $82.95 Buisson. Ethel and Thomas Billard. tran s. by Jasmine Benyam in. Th e Presence ofrhe Case Srudy Houses. Boston: Birkhauser. U RBAN D ESIGN 2004. 3 15p. ISBN 376437 1I 88 $90.00 Cerasi. Maurice. Emiliano Bugatti and Sabrina d' Agostiono. The lslanbul Divanyolu: A Case Srudy In Olloman Urbanity and Gauer. James. The New American Drea111: Living Well in Archirecwre. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag Wurzburg in Kommiss ion. Small Ho111es. New York: Monace lli Press. 2004. 240p. ISBN 2004. I 54p. ISBN 3899 133706 $62.50 1580931472$45.00 1.1') 0 Wa lkowitz, Dan iel J. and Lisa Maya Knauer. Menwn· and rhe 0 ~ Powers. Alan. Th e Twenrierh Century House in Brirain: Fro111 lmpacr of Political Tran.1jor111a/ion in Public Space. Durham. rhe Archives ofCounlly L(fe. London: Aurum. 2004. 192p. ISBN N.C.: Duke University Press. 2004. 326p. ISBN 0822333775 1845130 12X $65.00 $84.95 O pportunities John H. Bryan Curator Of Architecture demonstrated experience in organizing major exhi bitions and collection development. T he candidate The Art Institute Of Chicago seeks a qualified should have an established record of scholarly candidate to be responsible for the exhi bition, achievement, 5 to 7 years related experience, an pre ervation, and research on the permanent advanced degree in art history, and a strong museum collections of Archi tecture and for the acquisition background. Ph.D. preferred. Excellent writing, of additional art objects for the coll ection. Also editorial, and communication ski ll s are requi red. responsible for departmental and major loan Send cover letter with resume and three letters of exhibitions in Architecture. Will develop publications recommendations to: and educational material related to the permanent T he Art Institute of C hicago collection and the fi eld in general. Lectures within Human Resources, MC/576 the Institute and to other public and professional I l l S. Michigan Ave organi zations. Chicago, IL 60603 S uccessful candidate will have strong leade rship, Fax: 3 12.857.01 4 1 interpersonal and planning ski lls. Must have [email protected] SAH Study Tour Program for 2005 April 2005 Yoi.XLIX No.2 : ~ .' • ·:' ' .: • • r • ' \ • .. • .: ' .'! . : '• • ~~ . ; : • • • \ . ..:. : •• t" • • ,.:_ • In Memoriam 2 :-:-:: .: ... r·:·.: . .'- '".' ··._ .. · : :· ~ :·.-... ~. ~·.. J·. ··.:.-~·-:-·.: • .• :..:.. The Architect!Jre .9f Yietoria, :1.0-. l 2 April P""~: ~··. ~-- : ··. · '. 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Notz, Jr. Executive Director: Pauline Saliga SAH e-mail: [email protected] / [email protected] SAH website : http://www .sah.org Copyright 2005, The Society of Architectural Historians Forum This report sets out an initiative of the Society of Architectural Historians to increase the diversity of our profession by expanding the racial and ethnic populations we represent, topics we address in our publications, programs and meetings, and promotion of these issues in the field of architectural history at large. Diversity cannot be dealt with • The Society w ill develop alliances with groups such as NOMAS and NOMA (National Organization piecemeal. The SAH's commitment of Minority Architecture Students and National to diversity will be reflected in Organization of Minority Architects), as well as ACASA (Arts Counci l of the African Studies all of the Society's activities. Association) and similar groups within MESA (M iddle Greater diversity in programming East Studies Association), SASA (South Asian Studies Association) and others in order to encourage the will proceed in conjunction with fu ll participation in the activities of the SAH of their complementary initiatives in members who have an interest in the hi story of the built environment. education, supporting greater • The Society will continue to develop sources of breadth of fields in graduate and funding to support attendance at SAH events by under undergraduate programs. represented and target groups, inc luding those already active within the membe rship of the above mentioned Increased diversity in the membership of the Society is organi zations. vital for the health of the organization and the field of • The Society will seek funding to support the architectural history. The goal of the SAH is in large attendance of scholars in architectural hi story who part to promote vigorous and li vely intellectual debate reside in and teach at locations (Africa, South at the highest scholarly level. The best way to do this is to have the most diverse group of 'minds' at our America, South Asia, etc) whose architectural histories would qualify as underrepresented in the rostra of annual meetings, contributing to our publications and participating in our events. topics presented at our annual meetings. The Society's promotion of diversity wi ll re flect not only the diversity of its current membership but - SAH Diversity Committee actively seek to expand the audience for architectural Dianne Harris, University of Illinois at Champaign/ history. While diversity in its fu llest sense must Urbana; lkem Okoye, University of Delaware; include al l forms vari ety within the fields and audience Katherine Solomonson, University of Minnesota; and of the di scipline of architectural history, the Society's Christy Anderson, University of Toronto first focus wil l be race and ethnicity. The opportunities for change are greatest in this area, and the issues of The Committee on Diversity welcomes the suggestions inequality and under-representation most profound. and participation of all SAH members. Please contact Addressing these issues may well serve as a model for us via [email protected]. other issues of diversity in the future. Society Honors Pauline Seliga The following resolution, recogni::Jng the 10'" real estate tax-exempt status for the Charnley-Persky anniversary of Pauline Saliga as SAH Executive House Foundation in the Society's headquarters in DirectOJ; was read by President Th erese O'Malley to a Illino is, and has inherited additional fund raising rol es gathering ofSAH l(fe members, benefactors, and other and administrative duties " beyond the call of duty" long-term supporters of the society. associated with the Buildings of the United States project, during a peri od of reduced support personnel. Whereas, Pauline Saliga this year celebrates her I0 111 and has maintained grace under fire during the trials Anniversary as Executive Director of the Society and tribulations associated with each; and of Architectural Histori ans, to which she has been dedicated and whom she has ably served; and Whereas, Pauline Saliga has brought to every task a professionalism and wholehearted commitment to the Whereas, Pauline Saliga has skillfully presided over Society, a standard of excelle nce, and a personali ty the sundry affairs of the SAH effecti vely supervising a and character marked by integrity, sincerity, genuine dedicated administrative staff, displ aying competence friendship, and collegiality; in her management of societal records and activities (from fi scal to scholarly), and demonstrating creativity Be it, therefore, RESOLVED, that the Society in problem olving; and of Architectural Histori ans celebrates a ten-year milestone in the career of its Executi ve Director Whereas, Pauline Saliga oversees the daily operations and conveys the heart-felt gratitude of the Board of of the Society, responding to public inquiry and to Directors and of the global membership for the service the varied needs of an international membership and and dedication of Pauline Saliga. providing calm and steady guidance at the center of a rotating team of officers and d irectors; and - Therese O'Malley, SAH President April2005 Whereas, Pauline Saliga has coordinated the Society's receipt of the Charnley-Persky House and overseen its stewardship, has directed the vital restitution of l.t') 0 0 Farewell to Gail Ettinger N Ql c: -.::> Fond farewell to our Gail ; she's a groover. There's no doubt she's a shaker and move r; 3 As a matte r of fact, As her final great act: SAH " in the black" in Vancouver! ·'We w ill miss you,'· alas, all proclaim; To her glory the kudos we aim; T hanks for all that you've done And the hearts you have won Could we ever re-hire the same? " Pi ece of cake !" was her comment re mark-ed; Cool and calm to the day she departed; But the secret's now out, There's a price paid, no doubt: Her red hair was dead straight when she started. - SA H Poet Laureate Therese 0' Malley and Pauline Soli go in Vancouver, 2005 SAH Annual Meeting in Vancouver SAH members who partic ipated in the Society's 58111 Annual Meeting in Vancouver won't soon forget the splendid natural setting of the Pacific Northwest or the hospitality that its historians, architects, landscape archi tects and others extended to us. Given its unique traditions of architecture, landscape design and urban planning, Vancouver was an ideal setting for the Society's major scholarly meeting. Home to Univer ity of British Columbia, Simon Fraser Uni versity and neighboring Uni versity of Victoria, Vancouver has numerous educational, cultural, and civic institutions that welcomed our 440 meeting participants during the five-day meeting from 6 to 10 April 2005. We exte nd our sincere thanks to the General C hair for the Vancouver meeting, Barry Bergdoll of Columbia Uni versity, who shaped the scholarly content of the meeting, and Local Chair, Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe of University of British Columbia, who raised funds to underwrite the meeting, planned the extensive program of tours, lectures and receptions, and recruited an outstanding local committee and volunteers. We are grateful to Bergdoll and Windsor-Li scombe for their considerable efforts to make the meeting the outstanding inte llectual and collegial event that it was. A short recap of the week's activities follows: methodologies to presenting the hi story of the buil t environment is but one indication of the vitality of On the fi rst day of the meeting, Wednesday, a day-long the field of architectural hi story. For the first time Preservation Colloquium organi zed by preservationist on Thursday and Friday afternoons we extended the Helen Edwards focused on the recent creation of noon break and offered walking and bus tours as a Canada's Historic Places Initi ative. A series of way to di stri bute tours throughout the week, rather morning lectures and an afternoon tour highlighted than simply offering the m at the beginning and end of case stud ies of buildings that will receive federal the meeting. In addition, we offered additional paper funding for restoration. On Wednesday afternoon sessions and a wide variety of roundtable discussions, Jeffrey Cohen, Chair of the SAH Electronic Media presentations, and meetings during the noon hour Committee, hosted a workshop about digital images so that new and existing chapte r representatives, for teaching and research. Finally, afternoon walking BUS authors, graduate students, and many other tours on Wednesday helped meeting participants special interest groups would have the opportunity become familiarized with Vancouver's vital downtown to conduct business. On Thursday evening the core. In the evening a complime ntary reception at Local Committee organized a very successful panel the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver was held in the book discussion, "Vancouverism: A Distinct Architectural exhibitors' area. Immediately fo llowing the reception, Culture," th at was ope n to both meeting parti cipants SAH held its Annual Business Meeting whe n SAH and members of the general public. Also on Thursday Secretary Robert Craig held the election of Officers evening, SAH President Therese O 'Malley hosted a and Board members for the coming year and took a President's reception that honored long-term members vote on the reincorporation of SAH in Illinois (See and supporters of the Society, particularl y its members Secretary's report, page 7). Also SAH Treasurer John who have been active for fi fty or more years. On the K. Notz, Jr., gave a report about the financial state of fo llowing evening the SAH hosted the annual Award the Society (See Treasurer's report, page 6). Following Ceremony and Plenary Talk, the occasion when annual the business meeting an introductory talk, "Vancouver: meeting travel fellowships, research fellowships and Terminal City?" was delivered by Rhdori-Windsor publications awards were announced. (A fu ll li st of Liscombe, Professor, Uni versity of British Columbia award winners can be found on page 9.) In addition and Local Chair of the meeting. to the many awards that were granted, SAH President On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 13 1 scholarl y Therese O ' Malley announced that Damie Stillman papers were delivered in 28 sessions that covered a was made a Fellow of the Society in recognition of his wide range of periods and interests. Of the papers years of dedicated service to SAH and the Buildings of delivered, 33 were by inte rnati onal scholars, and the Uni ted States project. Following the presentation 33 session chairs and speakers were advanced of awards, Plenary Speaker Gulru Necipoglu of graduate students. The d iversity of approaches and Harvard University lectured on "Cross-Cultural Dialogues Across the Early Modern Mediterranean supported a new annual meeting fe llowship to identify World: The Case of Islamic and Christian Central-Plan the most outstanding research that advances the Domed Sanctuaries." hi story of women in architecture. In addition, we are extre mely grateful to the many me mbers of SAH After the last papers were de li vered on Saturday who contributed to the Berry, Collins, and Kostof morning, conference participants had the cho ice Fellowship Funds, thereby enabling the Society to of taking several tours that examined a wide swath help underwrite the travel of three additional scholars. of Vancouver's ri ch architectural history including Again , for the fifth consecutive year, the SAH Board Coastal Modernism, the architecture of Arthur al so awarded six SAH Fellowships that are funded Erickson and his conte mporaries, and the astounding through members' dues. growth of residential architecture in the downtown area. Saturday evening members relaxed at a closing On behalf of the Society's Board of Directors and night di nner at Sage Bistro on the UBC campus me mbership, I sincerely thank General Chair of the where Local Chair Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe Vancouver meeting, Barry Bergdo ll , Local Chair thanked everyone who made the meeting possible. Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, the Local Co mmittee The follow ing day additional tours examined the particul arly Barry Magri! I, and Volunteer Coordinator great vari ety in Vancouver's architectural hi story, Darlene Calynuik for generously sharing their time includ ing its Arts and Crafts Housing, and a two- and expertise with us. Our thanks also go to the day tour to the nearby city of Victori a provided a SAH staff members without whom the Vancouver behind-the-scenes look at some of the Provincial meeting would not have been possible: G ail Ettinger Capital's most intriguing architecture. Led by who managed every aspect of the meeting; N icholas C hri stopher Thomas, Helen Edwards, Martin Segger Curotto who acted as registrar; Heather Plaza and Dorothy Mindenhall , the two-day tour considered Manning who assisted with countless aspects of the complicated hi story of Victori a and urrounding meeting preparation and onsite registration; and Saanich Peninsula as an area shaped by First Nations Wi ll iam Tyre who handled all of the fin ancial record ettlements, British naval outposts, and rich farmland. keeping for the meeting and the Society in general. We extend our special thanks to the many tour leaders, The Society 's Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting was II) 0 co lloquium and workshop participants, speakers, 0 underwritten in part by grants from a w ide variety N session chairs, evening lecturers and others who made Ql o f educational and cultural in stitutions, architectural c: this meeting the Society's outstanding inte ll ectual and -.:::. firms, and foundation . Among the meeting sponsors professional program of the year. were Helen Edwards, the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, Bing Thorn Architects, the Charl es Scott Gallery at the Emi ly Carr Institute of - Pauline Saliga Art and Design, Rob McCarthy, Ramsay Worden SAH Executive Director Associates, Re nnie Associates, Rostich He mphill and Associates, the Vancouver Art Gallery, University of Victoria President's Fund, and the Uni versity of Bri ti sh Columbia President's Fund, Department of Art History and Visual Art, School of Architectu re and Properties Trust. In addition a total of 25 fellowships were granted to provide support for the travel of speakers to the Vancouver meeting, one of the largest number of fellowshi ps the Society has ever offered. Sponsors of 2005 Annual Meeting Fellowships included the Samuel H. Kress Foundati on, Keepers Preservation Education Trust, and the Scott Opler Endowment for New Scho lars. This was the first year that the Be ve rl y Willis Architectural Foundation Annual Meeting: Treasurer's Report The Financial State Of The Society SAH a more secure base from which to operate, some of which will be re fl ected in its FY 2005 fin ancial A Report is required of me at the Annual Meeting statements. by the By-laws of the Society. My comments relate Membership fi gures for the year-to-date are better to the fi scal year of the Society ended 30 Septe mber than FY 2004, to date, but the month of April w ill 2004. plus the six months, since, pl us a prognosis te ll us whether the timing of the conduct of this for the balance of the curre nt fi scal year, which ends Annual Meeting caused a more favorable " blip" in Septe mber 30, 2005. membership numbers and receipts than estimated. The Damocles Sword of the recent past - the The number of SAH staff is, I think, at an irreduc ible fi scal needs of the Buildings of the United States minimum. A replacement for Gail Ettinger is being (" BUS") project - is back in its scabbard. A complete sought; hers are d ifficult shoes to fill. SAH is, reorganization is in process. We estimate that funds superficially, a simple organization, but its many in hand will cover obligations of BUS through the offe rings to its membership make it, in fact, quite end of the current fi scal year of the Society and a complex. bit more, of the Society's next fi scal year, including There is an administrati ve matter to discuss - the the contractually committed compensation of Center migration of SAH from Connecticut to Illinois. for Ame ri can Places, an organization managed by The mechani cs for that migration is a merger of the George Thompson, which will have a central ro le in existing Connecticut charitable nonprofit corporation the immediate future of BUS, at least. There has been into a new Illino is charitable nonpro fit corporation. a complete editorial Board restructuring, and for the This migration has been authori zed by actions of the ongoing needs of BUS, a fund-raising assignment has Executi ve Committee and of the Board of Directors been made. that started in August, 2004. We of the management With respect to the Study Tour Program, which of SAH recommend this merger to you. This action covered its direct costs in FY 2004 (but did not cover requires a favorable vote from the membership - you. its overhead costs), the Study Tours are, again, not The re were no objections received in the proxy cards fi lling in the manner projected by those involved that were sent out in a Newsletter and received by in planning the SAH Study Tours, which means SAH. The Secretary will read the Resolution proposed that SAH is facing anothe r loss in its conduct of its by SAH management to you. The Agreement and Plan Study Tour Program. With the imminent departure of Merger is quite standard in form, except it contain s of Gail Ettinger (who m many of you know), the a fl at statement that your rights, as members change prognosis fo r the resul ts of the SAH operation of its in no way, at all. The effect on SAH will be to re move SAH Study Tour Program in the immediate future it from the jurisdicti on of Connecticut (which is, as a has worsened, required a reorganization of the SAH practi cal matter, already an historical fact). Because Study Tour Program; such a reorganization is, now, SAH is properl y qualifi ed to do business in Illinois, in process. SAH cannot tolerate its losses in its Study it has, already, subjected itself to the jurisdiction of Tour Program, as onl y a small minority of the SAH Illino is. Some cost, in lawyers' time and required membership takes advantage of its Study Tours. Those fees, particul arly to the IRS, will be incurred. There of the me mbership th at do are notably faithful, and should be a minor reduction of ongoing payments to their post-Tour reviews are excelle nt. Connecticut. There is some prospect of exemption With respect to The Charl ey-Persky House from Ill inois Sales and Use Taxes for SAH and for the Foundation, which operates the premises on Astor C harley-Persky House Foundati on, but neither such Street in Chicago from which the Society conducts its exemption can be assured. There is a signal condition affairs, there were no surprises during the past year. for proceeding to consummation of the contemplated merger: The merger will not be made effecti ve unles With respect to the ARC HES Campaign for substantial and until the IRS has granted lL SAH the same tax contributions for the use of SAH in future years, exempt status that CT SAH now has. contributions committed and received are g iving continued next pa ge Annual Meeting: Business Meeting Report 2005 SAH Business Meeting Held in Vancouver; Following the election, Treasurer John Notz reported British Columbia, Canada on the financial status of the Society [see Treasurer's Report, page 6]. At the close of hi s Report, he A business meeting of the Society of Architectural announced the SAH Directors' approval of a change Historians was held at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, of audit fi rms to Ostrow, Reisin, Berk & Abrams, Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday, CPA's, of Chicago. 6 April 2005. Following a welcome and introductory remarks by SAH President Therese O 'Malley, the The Secretary then read a resolution recomme nding foll owing officers and Directors, as proposed by the the reincorporation and migration of SAH from Nominating Committee, were e lected: Connecticut to Illinois, as recommended by the SAH Executive Board (CT), by the SAH Board of Directors President, Therese O'Mall ey, Center for Advanced (CT), and by the SAH Board of Directors (lL), the Study in the Vi sual Arts latter board comprised of the SAH officers (CT). Fir t Vice President, Barry Bergdoll , Columbia No proxy votes received expressed disapproval of Uni versity such a merger. A motion to approve the merger and Second Vi ce President, Dietrich Neumann, Brown reincorporation of the Society in Illinois was duly Uni versity made, and seconded, and passed. Secretary, Robert M. Craig, Georg ia Institute of Secretary's Note: During the 58th Annual Meeting in Technology Vancouver, an Executi ve Committee resolution also Treasurer. John K. Notz, Jr., C hicago, IL recognized the I Oth anniversary of service of Paul ine Directors: Saliga as Executive Director of SAH; President Anthony A lofsin, Uni versity of Texas, Austin The rese O ' Malley read the resolution which was received by acclamation and standing ovation by Vincent Buonanno, Chicago, Illinois long-term SAH members gathered at a reception. Hi lde Heynen, Catho lic University, Leuven Belg ium 2nd Secretary's Note: During the Annual Awards Jonathan Reynold , University of Southern California, Ceremony, President Therese O ' Mal ley announced, to Los Angeles IJ1 enthusiastic applause and standing ovation, that former g Katherine Solomonson, University of Minnesota N BUS Editor-in-C hief Damie Stillman has been made a Q) The Directors w ill succeed those whose terms expire Fellow of the Society of Architectural Histori ans. ~ in 2005. - Robert M. Craig 7 SAH Secretary Treasurer's Report, continued Lastl y, I report to you that, today, the Board of affi liate of the National Conference of Commissioners Directors authorized a change of audit firms- the on Uniform State Laws led me to ask that that fi rm professional firm that audits the financial statements of be considered. The SAH staff was, independent of SAH. This change was recommended by the Budget & me, unanimous in its recommendation to the Budget Audit Committee (Notz, Chair, AISayyad, Archer and & Audit Committee of th at firm- the Ostrow, Reisin Fixler, members) to the Executive Committee, which firm of Chi cago. I saw no reason to recommend acted favorably and so recommended to the Board of that the Budget & Audit Committee modify that Directors, whose action was, also, favorable by the recommendation. That recommendation has been Board of Directors. The Committee interviewed four approved by the Directors of SAH. fi rms othe r than the firm last used, with myself and the - John K. Not~, Jr., SAH staff most involved with its fin ancial affairs. It SAH Treasurer happened that prior experience of mine with the firm selected, in connection with its audit of the fi nancial statement of The Uniform Laws Foundation, an Call for Nominations The Society of Architectural Historians invites nominations for Fellows of the Society of Architectural Historians. Fellows are those members of the Society who have distinguished themselves by their extensive, substantive, and significant record of service to the Society in direct support of its mission. Normally, this will have New Fell ows of the Society will be announced by the included service as an officer President at the Annual Meeting of the Society and (elected or appointed) or director of a list of Fellows will be published in every issue of JSAH. the Society. Send paper nominations to: Nominations may be made by any three individual Therese O ' Malley members of the Society in a letter addressed to President the President that detail s a candidate's service in Society of Architectural Historians support of the Society's mission. Nominations will be 1365 N. Astor Street reviewed by the Executive Committee and accepted C hicago, IL 606 10 nominations will then be submitted to the Board of Directors for final approval by a vote in its regul ar Or e-mail nominations to: meeting in November. [email protected] ... QJ :t: -v;QJ ~ zQ) :X: <( V) Publications • International journal ofMiddl e East Studies Middle East Studies Association 1219 N Santa Rita Ave (quarterly) The University of Arizon a • MESA Newsletter (quarterl y) Tucson AZ 85721 • MESA Bulletin (biannual) 520 621-5850 • fax: 520 626-9095 • Roster of Members (bi ennial) m esana@u .arizona.edu • D irecrory of G raduate and Undergraduate Programs & Courses {avail able on MESA's website only) www.mesa.arizona.edu Annual Publication Awards Annual Publication Awards of the Society of Architectural Historians Presented at the Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting, Van couveJ~ British Columbia Alice Davis Hitchcock Award Jon A. Peterson, The Birth of City Planning in the Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: United States, 1840- 1917, Johns Hopkins University Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Press, 2003. Culture, 1880- 1930. Harvard University Asia Ce nter Publications, 2003. Antoinette Forrester Downing Award Robert E. Stipe, A Richer Heritage: Historic Philip Johnson Award Preservation in the Twenty-First Century. North Susan Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott, Thomas Jekyll: Caro lina University Press, 2003. Architect and D es ig n e 1~ 1827-1881. Yale University Press, 2003. Founders' Award D. Medina Lasansky, " Urban Editing, Historic Spiro Kostof Award Preservation and Political Rhetoric: The Fascist Thomas J. Campanella, Republic of Shade: New Redesign of San Gimignano", Journal of the Society England and the American Elm. Yale University of Architectural Historians, Vol. 63, No. 3, September Press, 2003. 2004. and 2005 Fellowship Winners Rosann S. Berry Annual Meeting Fellowship SAH Senior Annual Meeting Fellowship Steven Doctors, [University of California, Berkeley] Tanis Hinchcliffe, University of Westminster Elizabeth Lebas, Middlesex University George R. Collins Fellowship Jan Mole ma, Technische Universiteit, Delft Peter Scri ver, Uni versity of Adelaide Walter Peters, University of kwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Afri ca Edilia and Fram;ois-Auguste de Montequin Junior Fellowship Scott Opler Endowment for New and Emerging 9 E lizabeth A. Watson, [City Uni versity of New York] Scholars Fellowship C. Isabel Bauer, Universitat Kassel Keepers Preservation Fellowship Steven James, [Uni versity of Virg inia] Devon Akmon, [Eastern Michigan University] Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion, Haifa Emina Petrovic, Victoria University of Wellington Samuel H. Kress Fellowship Robert Proctor, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Ann Huppert, Worcester College Glasgow School of Art Susan Klaiber, Winterthur, Switzerland Vi malin Rujivacharakul, [University of California, Selen Morkoc, [University of Adelaide] Berkeley] Frederik Schmidt, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Lisa Trevor, [University of Mary land] El len van Impe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Kimberl y Elman Zaracor, [Columbia University] Sally Kress Tompkins Endowment Fellowship Spiro Kostof Fellowship LaDale C. Winling, [University of Michigan] Juliana Maxim, University of San Diego SAH Student Annual Meeting Fellowship Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation Fellowship Pierre Chabard, [Ecole d ' Architecture, Marne-Ia-Valee] lnes Zaluendo, [Graduate School of Design, Harvard Stuart King, [The University of Queensland] University] Buildings of the United States The BUS Interim Editorial looking forward to working with authors to produce first-rate manuscripts and to get the books to print Committee is pleased to announce in a timel y manner. I wi ll work to ensure th at the its own termination and, more books provide a scholarly yet exciting record of our diverse architectural landscape. I want to thank BUS 's importantly, the appointment of recently-retired ed itor Damie Stillman, who has set John Zukowsky and Karen Kingsley such a high standard for this series. I am honored to follow in hi s footsteps." as Co-Editors-in-Chief of the In other BUS news, at the SAH meeting in Vancouver Buildings of the United States. our new publishing partner, George Thompson of the John Zukowsky received his PhD from the State Center for American Places, un ve iled mockups of University of New York at Binghamton in 1977. BUS 's new graphic design. These included a number Since then, he has had a ful l career as a public of exciting features-- including full-color covers, color historian in the world of architecture and design, inserts, discursive captions, enhanced page layouts, working primari ly to create dynamic. award-winning and side-bars or mini-essays--designed to make the architectural exhibitions and publications at the Art books ever more attractive, engaging, and accessible. Institute of Chicago fro m 1978 to 2004, when he Keith Morgan's MA-Boston vo lume, now being retired from that in stitution to become the founding copy edited, will be the first published with CAP Director of the Westcott House Foundation in and with this new format. Volumes to be produced Springfield, Ohio. More recently he accepted the immediately thereafter include Pennsylvania east position of Chief Curator at the Intrepid Sea, Air and west, Wi sconsin, and Delaware. With CAP's & Space Museum in New York. Says Zukowsky assistance, BUS is now aiming to produce one book of BUS: "It is an exciting opportuni ty for me to every six months. In addition to the core volumes and work with SAH members to plan for the future of the database mentioned by Zukowsky, we al so are BUS, and l believe that future includes a variety of planning spin-off products, such as city or regional scholarl y and commercial publications as well as guides and thematic volumes. Discussions and the eventual creation of an electronic database on negotiations with various publ ishers are ongoing. American architecture that will serve SAH members Mi chael Lewis and Keith Eggener will continue as and everyone interested in finding out more abo ut Associate Editors for the time being. A search for one 10 buildings in the United States." or more new Assistant or Associate Editors will begin Karen Kingsley teache the hi story of architecture soon. in the School of Architecture at Tulane Uni versity Although BUS didn 't receive a great deal of new and, since 2002, has served as Acting Curator of the funding this year while it was under reorganization, Southeastern Architectural Archive. She earned her we do have sufficient fund s on hand to pay our Ph.D. at the Uni versity of California, Berkeley, after operating ex pen es for FY2005. We are anticipating immigrating to the United States from England (where that a new round of fundraising will begin this year she was raised on Nicholas Pevsner's Buildings of under the leadership of SAH Development Committee England). She authored BUS's own Buildings of Chair Damie Stillman. As ever, your tax-deductible Louisiana (2003), has published numerou s essays contributions to the project are much appreciated. in both scholarly and public interest magazines, and curated several architectural exhibitions. She recently -Keith Eggener led the SAH Study Tour in New Orleans and is BUS Associate Editor cu rrently writing a book on the architectural firm of Curtis and Davis. "As a BUS author," says Kingsley, "I know the chall enges, as we ll as the delights, in researching and writing one of these volu mes. I am Gifts and Donor Support 1 February- 31 March 2005 On behalf of the SAH Board and membe rs, we sincerely thank the members li sted below who, in February and March. made g ifts to a variety of funds including the Annual Appeal, the Annual Meeting Fellowship funds, the Charnley-Persky House Museum Foundation, the ARCHES Endowment campaign, and Buildings of the Un ited States. We are extremely grateful to all of you for your generosity and your w illingness to help the Society fu lfill its scholarly mission. SAH Annual Appeal Elizabeth Walton Potter Beverly Willis Buildings of the United Daniell a Smith Architectural States G(fts of $1,000- $4,999 Cyrus and Martha Foundation Travel Walter Kidney G(fts under $250 Sutherland Fellowship James and Gail Addiss G(fts under $250 Christopher Thomas Beverly Willis Patricia Vaughn Angell Christy Anderson Carla Yanni Architectural Tyson Dines Patricia Vaughn Angell Foundation Peter Fergusson George R. Collins Eldorado Women's Menwrial Fellowship Jill Hodnicki C harnley-Persky House Association Fund Museum Foundation Friends of the Schindler Bernard Jacob Frank Salmon House Susan Kline Morehead G(fts under $250 Daniella Smith Gensler Architects Linda O 'Neill James and Gail Addiss Cyrus and Martha Haro ld Hammer-Schenk Annemarie van Roessel Patricia Vaughn Angell Sutherland Thomas Tyler Porterfield Center for American Fellowship F unds Peter Shepherd son Spiro KostofAnnual Pl aces Robert Wojtowicz Rosann S. Berry Annual Meeting Fellowship Ty on Dines Meeting Fellowship Fund Kurt Larson Fund Michael Corbett SAH Endowment and Thoma Beischer Stephen Harby Major Gifts Fund Robert Lillibridge C hristopher Mead II) Patricia Morton Cyrus and Martha G(fts over $250,000 0 0 Wi ll iam H. Pierson, Jr. William Dean Eckert ('.! Sutherland Ql c: Jessie Poesch Irrevocable Trust -.:::> II Call for Session Proposals A a result of a new cooperation between the Society of Architectural Hi storians and our affi liate, the College 1 (l / Art Association, the SAH has been be in vited to organize a paper session 2 hours, ca. 3-4 papers) at the CAA Annual Conference 2006 in Boston, 22 to 25 February. Session chairs and presenters do not have to join CAA in order to participate. Session proposals covering any period in the history lnclude name, professional affiliation (if applicable), of architecture and all aspects of the built environment address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, are encouraged. The session may be theoretical, and a current cv. Please send session proposals before methodological, thematic, interdisciplinary, IS June 2005 to Dietrich Neumann (SA H 2"d Vice pedagogical, or documentary in premise and have President) via e-mai l at: [email protected], or via mai l a broadly conceived or more narrowly foc used at: Brown Uni versity, Department of the History of subject. The subject should be clearly defined in Art and Architecture, Box 1855, Providence, Rhode critical and historiographic terms, and should be Island 02912, U.S.A. (Phone: 40 1.351.4 156, Fax: substantiated by a distinct body of either established 40 1.863.3254). The selected session title w ill be or emerg ing scholarship. Proposals should be no announced together with a call for papers in the next more than 600 words including a session title and SAH Newsletter, and online around 15 July on the should summarize the subject and the premise. SAH and CAA websites. leave a legacy SAH Development Update: Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Beverly Willis responds to questions community property in San Francisco after the civil rights riots, lobbying for Union Street amenities, about her life and work posed by working to save San Francisco's cable cars, preventing Nina Botting Herbst and Pauline construction in Golden Gate Park. These activities earned me the Phoebe Hearst Gold Medal Award Saliga. as one of San Francisco's te n most distinguished citi zens. In the 1970s, I successfull y worked to create In the last edition of the SAH Newsletter Beverly the National Building Museum, I served as chair of Willis talked about her earlier career and work in San the Federal Construction Counc il of the National Francisco. Now in the second parr of her response to Academy of Science, and I was one of two architects questions posed by Nina Botting Herbst and Pauline re presenti ng the US at Habitat I. I believe that the Saliga she covers her involvement in civic projects experi ences gained from such activities enrich the -such as The National Building Museum and the architectural knowledge needed for a successful career redevelopment of Lower Manhattan post 2001; th e in planning and design. Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF); and Sometimes the call to civic duty is urgent and how she thinks SAH and other organi::_ations can help essential. Immediately after 9/ I I, S usan Szenasy, ro promote and support women in architecture. editor of Metropolis, and I formed what became a 500- My best-known buil ding, the San Francisco Ballet participant organization, named Rebuild Downtown Building (1 982), designed as part of the city's C ivic Our Town (R.Dot). Among the participants were well Center, was widely celebrated. It's hard to believe that known architects, industrial designers, economists, thi s work occurred on Iy 16 years after my first A I A attorneys, residents, as well as representati ves from award, in 1966, for the Union Street Stores, orig in all y local colleges and small businesses. R.Dot published Victorian Buildings that we converted to commercial a series of working papers that have influenced the use. redevelopment of New York's downtown. We pooled I've been asked what building infl uenced my design together our professional talents and knowledge to work. Rather than refining one particular style, help the city after the horrific attack. My ability to my designs have always been governed by the move quickly, understand urban complexities, and to make the necessary recommendations were the 12 opportunities as well as the constraints of the type of building and its location. For example, prior to the result of my years of d iverse experience in large-scale national preservation movement, I wanted to preserve projects and development. and restore three Victorian, two-and-three story Back to why I wanted to establish the Beverl y Willi s buildings, known as the "Union Street Stores" with Architecture Foundation (BWAF). I fi rmly be lieve that their intricate detailing and fi sh-scal e shingles. But the until full parity exists in the architecture professions, bui ldings needed to be one-third larger; so I decided to until the cul ture of archi tecture veers away from its jack up the building and build a fl oor below. male bias, there w ill always be a need to acknowledge I've ofte n been asked why I donate so much time to the many contributions women have made and civic affairs. Architecture, I believe, involves more contin ue to make in the production of architecture, than just design. I've looked to the past fo r my role whether as practitioners of design and urbanism, or as mode ls. As a student, I was impressed by the acti ve hi storians and critics. leader hi p ro les that Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, BWAF is committed to promoting research that and Brune lleschi had within civic life, confe rring focuses on the contributions of women to the fie lds on urban affairs, even combat defense. With this as of architectural design, the building arts and urban a mode l, I have continuall y vo lunteered my time planning, as well as archi tectural hi story and criticism, to assist in urban affairs, to providing professional with particular emphasis on the middle years of the expertise for a range of issues from restoring twentieth century. For example, around 1960 there teachers, students as well as practitioners to continue were 184 women members of A l A *, in addition to to investigate women's place in architectural history, an unknown number of licensed women arch itects. I and evaluating it with in a culture of equality. know of perhaps ten of them. Who were al l the others? * I got this figure from my 1992 notes, and have What are their stories? How will the new histories of not been ab le to verify the statistic. If one of your twentieth-century architecture read, when women's readers has this information at their fingertips, please work is given eq ual attention? contact us at bwaf.org. Here is an exa mple of the For th is reason, BWAF seeks grantees willing to kind of research that's needed, and th at BWAF seeks unearth and revisit all this material that has been to support th rough its newly developed Fellowshi p overlooked, or airbrushed from the records. To this Program- the next dead line for app lication for end , the foundation supports innovative projects that BWAF Fel lowships and Grants is 15 September 2005. expand the knowledge and advance the recognition of women's contributions in the production of architecture. These projects can include scholarly Learn more about the Beverly Willis Architecture study, publication, ex hibition, even fi lm. Foundation at www.bwaf.org. BWAF hopes that SAH members will encourage other ( --·· - ·· - ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··-··- ··-··-··- ··- ··- ··-··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ..! i 2006 ASEH Annual Conference i I Joint meeting with Forest History Society I '0 ! St. Paul, Minnesota, March 29-April 2, 2006 I 0 0 "Rivers Run Through Them: i ~ cu ! c: ASEH . Landscapes in Environmenta l History" ) :::> -, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY ' ·· - ·· - ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··-··-··- ·· -··-··-··-··-··-··-··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- I' The American Society for Environmental History .) Founded in 1977 to promote research, teaching, and publication in the field of env ironmental history, ASEH welcomes members from al l disciplines, professions and walks of li fe who share an interest in past environments and the roles human beings have played in them . .------What are the benefits of membership? A membership in ASEH connects you to the community of scholars • Involvement in one of the most exciting new fields of working in the field of environmental and hi storical scholarship environmental history. • A subscri ption to the quarterly journal, Environmental Histo1y Membership Options: • A subscri ption to ASEH Ne11•s, the society's newsletter • Individual membership, $50 • Special rates at the society's conferences • Students (with photocopy of current I. D.), $20 • Optional participation in the ASEH In ternet discussion group • Joint membership in both FHS and ASEH, $70 • A special rate for joint membership in the Forest His tory Society • Joint student membership (with photocopy of current I. D.), (FHS), with additional benefits, including use of the FHS library $27.50 and archives at Durham headquarters, and bibliographic and archi val reference and referral services • Library Membership, $100 For more information on becoming a member, see our website or contact: American Society for Environmental History 701 William Vickers Avenue, Durham, NC 27701 • Phone 919.682.9319 www.aseh.net In Memoriam Jay C. Henry, 1938-2005 Jay C. Henry, Architecture Professor at the Uni versity of Texas at Arlington, died on 15 March at the age of 66. He had taught at the School of Architecture at UTA since 1972 and had a reputation of never having missed a class due to illness during his entire 33 years there. Provost Dana Dunn described Dr. Henry as "an accomplished scholar and kind-hearted colleague ... a noted author and a popular and respected teacher. " Campus fl ags flew at half-staff following his death, a sign of the sense of loss and the impact Jay Henry had both inside and outside the architecture school. Professor Henry was a member of the Society of Architectural Historians, where he presented papers and publi shed in JSA H. Soon after the southeastern regional chapter [SESAH] was establi shed in 1983, Dr. Henry became an active member, and served on its Board of Directors as an "at large" member representing all out-of-region members. At the time of hi s death, he was serving as Program Director planning SESAH's 2005 fa ll conference in Fort Worth, Texas, the first to be hosted outside SESAH's customary "territory." Thanks to his colleagues, the conference will still take place in Texas as scheduled, with plans underway to honor Professor Henry at the meeting. Dr. Henry's expertise on Texas architecture prompted hi s selection as one of the authors of the soon-to be-published Texas volume in the Buildings of the United States series. In 1993 Dr. Henry published Architecture in Texas, 1895- 1945, an exhaustive and exemplary guide to regional and local architecture in hi s adopted state. He was particularly focused on the architecture of the Depression era. Author of more than a dozen scholarly articles and reviews, hi s writings have appeared in Perspective, Cite, Texas Review of Books, Texas Architect, and JSA H. Henry has also presented more than 50 conference papers during hi s career. Beyond regional studies, research interests included National Romanticism, Jugendstil , and Expressioni sm in North Europe. His courses, both hi story surveys and seminars, addressed Modern architecture of the 20th century, the history of interior architecture, and the history of urban form. He taught frequently abroad for the Texas Consortium Program in London and the School Robert W. Jorgensen, 1907-2005 of Architecture in Rome. Colleagues have noted his ability "[to teach] freshman and graduate students With the death of Robert W. Jorgensen on 4 January with equal skill and passion, showing hi s love for at age 97, the SAH lost not only a Life Member but a architecture and history." He played a vital role in the former Treasurer, one of the selfless volunteers who, development of UTA's School of Architecture, the over the years, have kept watch over the finances university's provost has noted. of the organizati on and ensured its fi scal stability. I can personally vouch for hi s important contributi ons Dr. Henry received his Bachelor of Architecture to the Society, for I was an officer during the latter degree from Catholi c University in 1962, a Master part of his tenure, and Bob's insights and careful of Architecture degree form the Uni versity of financial stewardship were of inestimable value to us. Washington at Seattle, and hi s PhD from the Serving as Treasurer from 197 1 to 198 1, he was also University of California, Berkeley. His friends and responsible for introducing to the Society Paulette colleagues at UTA, at SESAH, and at SAH will miss Olson, who served as Executive Secretary from 1981 an associate who was always w illing to share his latest to 1985. di scoveries and photographic images of noteworthy architecture. Jay Henry's subjects were not always Born in Chicago on 3 August 1907, Robert Jorgensen familiar bui ldings, but edifices made more intri guing graduated from Cornell in 1929 with a degree in by Dr. Henry's enthusiasm and his encouragement that Mechanical Engineering. For the next sixty years we look beyond the iconic landmarks. he had a di stinguished business career centered in Chicago, working for Booz, Allen and Hamilton; Richardson Co.; Hallicrafters; and Peifer & Co. - Robert M. Craig before founding his own management consulting fi rm, Jorgensen Associates. In the late '80s and early '90s, he also served as President of Techny Plastics in A. Benedict Schneider, 1914-2004 Northbrook, IL, from which he retired in 1992. A. Benedict Schneider, M.D., a forty-six-year me mber In 1985 he married Paulette O lson, and they later of the Society, a Benefactor Member, a former moved to northern Michigan, one of their favorite member of the Board of Directors, and a long-time places. As one of the leaders of SAH in the 1970s and tour participant, d ied 25 November 2004 at the age '80s, he maintains a warm place in our memories, and of 90. Joining the SAH in 1958, Ben served on the our hearts go out to his w idow, Paulette Jorgensen. Board from 197 1 to 1974 and was a familiar presence on many tours. A graduate of Harvard College and - Damie Stillman Harvard Medical School, he practiced medic ine in C leveland for many years and was also an Associate C linical Professor at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Many me mbers of long standing w ill remember Ben at Annual Meetings and on tours, for he was in the best sense of the word an amateur of architectural history, participating fu ll y in all that the Society has to offer to those li ke Ben who enjoy architecture and its history and learning about them in the company of students, scholars, and interested amateurs. He w ill be missed by famil y and friends and those of us who shared w ith him the e njoyment of SAH. - Damie Stillman Tribute Marian Scott Moffett (1949-2004) died in Knoxville, published this year. Moffett served on the SESAH 26 September 2004. She was 55. For many she Board of Directors as the Tennessee representati ve e mbodied the essence of collegiality, collaborating for two three-year terms in the late 1990s and chaired as co-author on major writing projects, serving the SESAH's annual Book Award Committee. She became faculty at the Uni versity of Tennessee as a leader in the chapter's first Life Member in 1995. From 1996- facu lty governance and administration, mentoring 98, Moffett was editor of the SESAH Newsletter. At students, and spearheading major initiatives in her the 2004 SESAH Annual meeting, Professor Moffett professional fi eld of architectural hi story including the was to serve as Program Director. The meeting was establishment of a prominent academic society and the hosted again by the Uni versity of Tennessee and initiation of a scholarl y journal in architectural history. featured dozens of scholarl y papers, and a keynote Jan Simek, interim dean of the College of Architecture address by John Reps; a Tennessee session was held in and Design at Tennessee has noted of Marian Moffett, her honor. The SESAH conference convened a month "She wa committed to academic integrity and after Moffett's death. Her colleagues and students excellence [and was] a scho lar and teacher, first and rallied to complete her work for the conference, foremost." including the conducting of SESAH's annual tour, this year of Eastern Tennessee towns and TVA sites. It was A native of Johnson City. Tennessee, Mari an Moffett Marian's tour, the locus of her major contribution to received a B.Arch degree in 1971 from North Carolina regional studies. State University. He r professional architecture studies continued at MIT where she received an M.Arch in In 1989 Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse 1973 and turned to architectural history, receiving a published a notabl e textbook, A History of Western PhD in 1975. She joined the faculty of the Un iversity Architecture. Following Wodehouse's retire ment of Te nnessee College of Architecture and Design in in the 1990s (he died in 2002), Moffett revised and 1975. In 1985 and 1986 she served as president of the significantly expanded the text, coll aborating w ith Faculty Senate, and began to move into administrative Michael Fazio toward the publication (in 2003) of roles for the uni versity. She served from 1993 to 1999 Buildings Across Time: An Introduction to World as associate to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, Architecture. Her work will thus continue to touch and associate provost in 2000 and 2001. Moffett students in significant ways, and to inform and enrich had also recently led the revision of the university's our knowledge of architecture on a global scale. Her faculty handbook. Professor Moffett received many remarkable range extended from East Tennessee awards at UT, including the Chancellor's Citation for vernacul ar to the wooden medieval architecture of Extraordinary Service to the Uni versity. Eastern Europe, from traditional Western architecture, ancient to mode rn , to the built works of China and A member of the Society of Architectural Hi storians, India, and from Islamic Architecture to the Indigenous Marian Moffett made signifi cant contributions to the Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas. establishment and success of the southeaste rn chapter, SESAH. She presented her first paper at SESAH's 2 nd SESAH's current President, Pamela Simpson, has said annual conference in 1984, a study conducted with of Marian Moffett that she was "a gifted teacher, much Lawrence Wodehouse on "The Cantilevered Barn in beloved by her students .. . We were all shocked by East Tennessee," eventuall y resulting in an exhibition the sudden death ... of our good friend and long-time and catalogue on the subject. Moffett served as colleague ... Marian was a leader in SESAH from its Pre ident of SESAH in 1987 and hosted the society's inception [and] will be deeply mi ssed by al l who knew annual conference in Knoxville, attracting Reyner her." Banham as keynote speaker. The next year she and Wodehouse proposed the establishment of a scholarly - Robert M. Craig, journal, and the two became co-editors of the first SA H Secretary three volumes of ARRIS, whose 16111 volume will be News MEMBER NEWS CHAPTER NEWS Barbara Miller Lane, Emeritus Professor in the SESAH 2005 Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, TX Humanities and McBride Professor of History of Art 12 - 15 October 2005 and Cities at Bryn Mawr College, has been awarded a Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship to work The in stitutional sponsor of the Annual Meeting is the on "American tract houses of the 1950s and 1960s: School of Architecture of the Un iversity of Texas at a critical reinterpretation". Lane, a graduate of the Arlington. The location will be the Fort Worth Plaza University of Chicago and Barnard College, and a Hotel, on the edge of downtow n adjacent to the Water PhD in history from Harva rd Uni versity, joined the Garden. Convention room rate is $79 per night plus Bryn Mawr faculty in 1962. In add ition to her many 15% tax, single or double occupancy. Downtown awards and grants, Lane has been a visiting professor Fort Worth is a remarkable walking environment at the Columbia Uni versity School of Architecture, a with numerous restaurants and entertainment venues. fell ow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Vi sual A self-guided walking tour will be provided in Arts in Washington DC, a fellow at the In stitute for registration packets. Fort Worth is readily available Advanced Study, Berlin, and a member of the "City from the Dall as/Fort Worth International Airport, a Forum", an ad visory group on planning Berlin after major transportation hub, with access by tax i or shared German unification. Lane is the author of a classic ride shuttle. Registration fee will be $ J 00 ($50 for work on German architecture and planning in the earl y students), with an additional $50 add on fee for the twentieth century. In 197 1, she fo unded the Growth Saturday tours to Dallas. Please contact Professor and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr. The Pamela Simpson, Art Department, Washington Cities Program was the fir t undergraduate major and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 24450 (or in the country to combine city plann ing, art and [email protected]) for more information. architecture, history, poli tical science, anthropology, economics, sociology and geology. Now in its 35 111 year. the program continues to be unique in its interdi ciplinary, multicultural approach. Opportunities 17 THE INSTITUTE FoR ADVANCED STUDY, Princeton, THE Ut IVERSITY OF FLOR IDA'S PRESERVATION INSTITUTE: NJ, announces memberships in the School of NANT UCKET (PI :N) hosts an exhibition of photographs Hi storical Studies for the academic year 2006-2007. by architectural hi storian and preservati onist Clay Approx imately forty Members are appointed for either Lancaster ( 19 17-2000) as part of the celebrati on of one or two terms each year. Further information and National Hi storic Preservation Week on Nantucket appli cation materi als may be found on the School's Island. Created by the Warwi ck Foundation, Through web site, www. hs. ias.edu . Appl ications must be the Lens of Clay Lancaster: Photographs of a returned by J 5 November 2005. Preservation Pioneer ( 1930 -1970), will exhibit Other opportunities include Mellon Fellowships for in Sherburne Hall , the Pl:N academic facility at Assistant Professorships (www.hs.ias.edu ; due 15 II Centre Street in Nantucket Town, through the November 2005) and ACLS/Frederi ck Burkhardt Memorial Day weekend. Nantucket's Preservation Fellowships fo r Recently Tenured Scholars (www.acls. Week acti vities, coordinated by the Nantucket org/burkguid.htm; due 28 September 2005). Preservation Alliance, ki ck off Saturday, 7 May. For more information e-mail : peprugh@ufl .edu. Booklist Recemly published architectural books and related works, Architecture- Fra nce selected by Barbara Opw; Syracuse Universi(,. Library Avril , Francois and Jean-Rene Gaborit. La France Romane au Temps des Premieres Capetiens (987-1 152 ): L 'album New Series de /'Exposition. Paris: Fernand Hazan. 2005. 63p. ISBN Environmental Design Archi ves at the University of Cali fornia, 2850259802. $69.50 Berkeley. A series of monographs exploring the holdings of the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Grant, Lindy. Architecture and Society in Normandy, 1120- Berkeley. 1270. New Haven: Ya le University Press, 2005. 256p. ISBN Series No. I: Maybeck's Landscapes: Drawing in Nature by 0300 106866 $75.00 Dianne Ha rris ; Series No.2: The Donnell and Alcoa Gardens: Two Modem Cal!fomia Landscapes by Marc Treib : No. 3 Mingaud. Alain. Eglises de Ia Haute- Vie1111 e. Limoges: Lucien (comi ng Spri ng 2005): The Suburban Park Landscapes of Robert Souny, 2005. 299p. ISBN 284886025 1 $95.00 Royston by Reuben Rainey and No.4: Appropriate: The Houses of Joseph Esherick by Marc Treib. Architecture-India Khare, A jay. Temple Architecture of Eastem India. Gurgaon: Architects Shubhi Publications, 2005. 2 12p. ISBN 8 182900336 $125.00 Gehry. Frank 0. Cehry Draws. Cambridge. Mass.: MIT Press. 2004. 496p. ISBN 0262182416 $50.00 Architecture-Italy Morri ssey, Jake. The Genius in the Design: Bemini, Borromini Lavin, Sylvia. Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard and the Rivalry that Transformed Rome. New York: William Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Morrow. 2005. 336p. ISBN 0060525339 $24.95 Press. 2004. 182p. ISBN 0262122685 $30.00 Architecture-Latin America Riera Ojeda, Oscar. ed. Arcadian Architecture: Bohlin Cywinski Uni versidad Politecnica de Catalunya and lnstitut Catala de Jackson - 12 Houses. New York: Rizzoli . 2005. 42 1p. ISBN Cooperacio Liberoamericana. Doc111nentos de Arquitectura 0847826961 $65.00 Moderna en America Latina 1950-1965. Barcelona: In stitut Catala de Cooperacio Libroamericana, 2004. 353p. ISBN Tzonis. Alexande r. Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works. 8485736 176 $65.00 N.Y.: Ri zzoli. 2004. 432p. ISBN 0847826414$75.00 Architecture- United States Architectural Criticism Yu h I, Stephanie E. A Colden Ha:e of Memory: The Making of Jordy. William H. and Mardges Bacon. ed. "Symbolic Essence" Historic Charleston. Chapel Hill: University of North Caro li na and Other Writings on Modem Architecture and American Press, 2005. 285p. ISBN 0807855995 $ 19.95 Culture. New Haven: Yale Uni versity Press. 2005. 344p. IS BN 0300094493 $35.00 Architecture, Islamic Degeorge. Gerard. Damascus. Paris; New York: Flammarion. Linder. Mark. Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture After 2005. 320p. ISBN 2080304560$95.00 Minima/ism. Cambridge. Mass.: MIT Press. 2004. 282p. ISBN 0262 122669 $40.00 Architecture, Modern Architectural League of NY, ed. Young Architects 6: If-Then Architecture-Philosophy Architectural Speculations. New York: Princeton Architectural Mall grave, Harry. Modern Architectural Th eory: A Historical Press, 2005. l76p. ISBN 1568985126 $24.95 Survey. 1673- 1968. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. 5 12p. IS BN 0521793068 $ 110.00 Tschumi, Bernard. Evem-Cities 3: Concept vs. Con1ex1 vs. Content. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 2005. 640p. ISBN Architecture- Brazil 026270 II 03 $35.00 Forty. Ad ri an and Elisabetta Andreoli. eds. Bra:il's Modem Architecture. London: Phaidon. 2005. 240p. ISBN 07 14842923 Architecture, Roman $75.00 Stamper. John W. Th e Archilecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire. New York: Cambridge University Architecture- China Press. 2005.304 p. ISB N 052 18 1068X $85.00 Hung. Wu. Remaking Beijing: Tianamnen Square and the Cremion ofa Political Space. Chicago: University of Chicago Building Materials Press, 2005. 240p. ISBN 0226360784 $80.00 Hugues. Theodor, Klaus Greil ich and Christine Peter. Building With Large Clay Blocks: Details. Products, Built Examples. Basel: Birkhauser. 2004. li Sp. ISBN 376437 1110 $48.95 Building Types Pomarici, Francesca. La Prima Facciata di Santa Maria del Gast. Klaus-Peter. Dieter Gramling and Hardo Braun. eds. Fiore: Storia e lnterpreta:;ione. Rome: Viella. 2004. 128p. ISB N Research and Technology Buildings: A Design Manual. Basel: 888334152X $39.95 Birkhauser. 2005. 240p. ISBN 376432174 1 $ 11 5.00 Religious Buildings Decoration and Ornament Goldhill, Simon. The Temple of Jerusalem. Cambridge, Mass.: Smith. Lawrence D. and Mary Beth Mudrick. Federal Style Harvard University Press, 2005. 208p. ISBN 06740 17978 $ 19.95 Pal/em s, 1780- 1820: Nell' £nglc111d Region Interior Architectural Trim & Fences. Hoboken. N.J.: J. Wiley & Sons. 2005. 272p. Urbanism ISBN 047 1694193$70.00 Ben-Joseph, Fran and Terry S. Szold, eds. Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America. N. Y.: Routledge. Housing 2005. ISBN 04159487546 $90.00 Brown, David J., ed.. with texts by Steven Badanes. The HOM£ House ProjeCI: the Fu/ilre of Affordable Housing. Winston Lawson, Laura J. City Bountiful: A Century of Community Salem: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. 2004. ISBN Gardening in America. Berkeley: University of California Press. 0262524325 $24.95 2005. 380p. ISBN 052023 1503 $55.00 Gast. Klaus-Peter. Living Plans: New Concepts for Advanced Lejeune, Jean-Francois, ed. Cruelty & Utopia: Cities and Housing. Basel: Birkhauser. 2005. 240p. ISBN 376432 1849 Landscapes of Latin America. New York: Princeton Architectural $ 125.00 Press. 2005. 263p. ISBN 1568984898 $45.00 Landscape Architecture Marshall , Stephen. Streets & Pal/ems. London : NY: Span Press, Well er. Richard. Room 4.1.3.: Innovations in La11dscape 2005. 3 18p. IS BN 04 153 17509 $69.95 Architecture. Philadelphia: Uni versity of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 276p. ISBN 081 2237846 $49.95 Porter, Douglas R. and Terry Lassar. The Power of Ideas: Five People Who Changed the Urban Landscape. Washington. D.C.: Masterworks Urban Land Institute, 2004. 123p. ISBN 0874209307 $34.95 Benoit. Jeremic. Napoleon et Versailles. Paris: Musees Nat ionaux, 2005. 142p. ISBN 27 11 8488X $4 1. 50 Reeh. Hcnrik. Ornaments of the Metropolis: Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. Hagan. Bernardine. Kentuck Knob: Frank Lloyd Wright's House 248p. ISBN 0262 182378 $39.95 for I.N. and Bemardine Hagan. Pittsburgh. Penn.: T he Local Hi story Co.. 2005. 220p. ISBN 097 11 83554$39.95 Smithson. Alison and Smithson, Peter. Th e Charged Void: Urbanism. New York: Monacelli , 2005. 35 1p. ISBN 158093 1308 Jenkyns. Richard. Westminster Abbey. Cambridge, Mass.: $65.00 Harvard Un iversity Press. 2005. 2 15p. 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