NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS APRIL 1985 VOL. XXIX NO.2 SAH NOTICES Street, New York, NY 10025. The Preservation and Resto­ 1985 Annual Meeting-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 17- ration of State Capitols, chaired by Dennis McFadden, 21). Osmund Overby is general chairman of the meeting. Temporary State Commission on the Restoration of the Franklin Toker, University of Pittsburgh and Richard Capitol, Alfred E. Smith Office Building, P.O. Box 7016, Cleary, Carnegie Mellon University, are local chairmen. Albany, NY 12225. Plan and Function in Palaces and Palatial Houses from the Fourteenth through the Seven­ 1986 Annual Meeting-Washington, D.C. (April 2-6). Gener­ teenth Centuries, chaired by Patricia Waddy, School of al chairman of the meeting is Osmund Overby of the Architecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13210. University of Missouri. Antoinette Lee, Columbia Histori­ In addition, there will be workshops and discussions as cal Society, is serving as local chairman. Session titles and follows: chairmen are: Architectural Measured Drawings for Historic Structures, Thursday morning, April3: General Session, chaired by Wednesday, April2, sponsored jointly with the Association Damie Stillman, Department of Art History, University of of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the Historic Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. Modern Architecture, American Buildings Survey, for further information, write chaired by Norma Evenson, Department of Architecture, John A. Burns, Historic American Buildings Survey, Na­ University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Rules of tional Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. Thumb: The Unwritten Design Traditions of Master Masons, 20013-7127. Architectural Records: Progress Towards Surveyors, Carpenters, Builders, and the Like, chaired by Access, for further information, write Mary Ison, Prints Nicholas Adams, Department of Art and Architecture, and Photographs Division, The Library of Congress, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Washington, D.C. 20540. Perservation Committee Meeting: Thursday afternoon, April3. Gothic Architecture, chaired Workshop on Survey and Registration, for further informa­ by Vivian Paul, Department of Environmental Design, tion, write Richard Longstreth, Graduate Program in His­ Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3137. toric Preservation, The George Washington University, Landscape Architecture and Garden Design in the Wash­ Washington, D.C. 20052. ington, D.C., Area, chaired by Therese O'Malley, 2192 S. Those who wish to submit papers for the Washington 27th Ave., Yuma, AZ 85364. Structure and Form in Iberian meeting are urged to do so promptly, and in any case before and Latin American Architecture, chaired by Humberto the deadline for submission of papers, September 13, 1985. Rodriguez-Camilloni, College of Architecture and Urban Please send proposals, in the form of one-page abstracts, to Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the session chairpersons listed above. Blacksburg, VA 24061. All speakers must be members of the national SAH when Friday morning, April4. Cross Currents in Architectural their papers are submitted and when they present their Theory and Design: France and America, 1890-1930, chaired papers. Participants may deliver only one paper, or serve on by Mardges Bacon, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity only one panel during the meeting. As talks are normally College, Hartford, CT 06160. Pursuing Urban History: about 25-30 minutes long, the subject chosen should suit Methodologies and Teaching, chaired by Diane Favro, that amount of time, but proposals for shorter talks (please Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, specify anticipated length) are also welcome. Material University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Architec­ published before the meeting, or talks delivered to any but a ture and Technology, chaired by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, small local audience may not be presented at the SAH Department of Fine Arts, The University of British Colum­ annual meeting. Please put into your abstract what you will bia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1W5. say, not what you will talk about. Example: "I will show that Friday afternoon, April 4. The Country House in the Paul Anonyme built the Inconnu Palace in 1745" not "I will American South, chaired by Michael W. Fazio, School of discuss the date and designer of the Inconnu Palace." Your Architecture, Mississippi State University, Mississippi discoveries will be confidential until our meeting, and are State, MS 39762. Decorative Arts in Washington, D.C., and also protected by recent copyright law changes. Vicinity, chaired by Rodris Roth, Division of Domestic Life, 1985 Summer Domestic Tour-Providence/Newport (June 4117 AHB, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 19-23). William Jordy of Brown University will be leader of 20560. Public Buildings and Their Programs of Ornamenta­ the tour. SAH participants will have the rare opportunity to tion, chaired by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, Department of visit a great number of notable buildings of the area which Art, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003 . are not generally open to the public. Announcements will Saturday morning, April 5. The History of Architecturai be mailed this month to the membership. Registration on Photography, chaired by Cervin Robinson, 251 West 92nd this tour will be limited to 40 participants. 1985 Foreign Tour-Yugoslavia (May 27-June 17). Slobodan The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Curcic, Princeton University, will lead the tour. This tour Artistic Works will hold its 13th Annual Meeting, May will explore the architecture, urbanism, and art of Roman, 22-26. Contact: AIC National Office, 3545 Williamsburg Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Ottoman Turkish, and Lane, N. W. , Washington, D.C. 20008. Modern periods. The West Dean Summer School announces its Architec­ tural Conservation Summer School, July 12'-19, 1985. The 1986 Domestic Tour, Southern Indiana (October 14-19). week-long program covers the principles and philosophy of Tom Slade, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, is conservation and the contribution of research, survey and leader of the tour. Further information will appear m documentation. There are lectures and discussions on subsequent Newsletters. traditional building materials and construction and on repair and remedial works. Throughout the program, case SCHOOLS AND CONFERENCES histories and visits to current projects will illustrate particu­ The Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies lar problems and solutions. Pending sufficient enrollment, a announces its 6th year of instruction with twenty-one program on historic landscapes and gardens will be orga­ summer workshops. These sessions, varying from one to five nized from July 19-26. Contact: Miss C. Lacey, 16 Eldon days in length, are scheduled from June 3 through July 17, Grove, London NW3 5PT, England or Gary T. Scott, 1985. Architectural Preservation, Care of Museum Objects Regional Historian, I 100 Ohio Drive SW, Washington, and Furniture Conservation are the three major program D.C. 20242. Application deadline: May 30. areas in which training for persons in the conservation and preservation fields will be offered. Contact: Laurie Scott or CALL FOR PAPERS Margery Douglass, Campbell Center, P. 0. Box 66 , Mount A symposium, The High-Style Threshold-Architecture in Carroll, IL 61053. Western New England, 1635-1850, will be at the Connecticut "Flexible Medium: 20th Century American Art Fabric" is Historical Society in October 1986. The symposium will be the title of an all-day seminar sponsored by the Resident devoted to the presentation of short factual papers which Associate Program of the Smithsonian Institution. Planned present new documentation on this subject. The proceed­ in conjunction with the Washington Craft Show, which is ings of this symposium, along with extensive appendices organized by the Smithsonian's Women's Committee, the citing primary documents will be published immediately seminar will be held on April27. Write: Resident Associate after the symposium is held. Those wishing to submit Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. abstracts should contact: Robert F. Trent, CHS, I Elizabeth 20560. Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06105. (203) 236-5621. The University of Southampton announces the Fourth The South Eastern College Art Conference will hold its Wessex Fine Arts Summer Study Course "Courtiers and annual meeting in New Orleans from October 24-26, I 985. Builders of the Stuart Age," to be held July 8-14. The This regional organization encourages nationwide partici­ program will consist of lectures and a series of private visits pation and has issued a call for papers for their annual to a number of outstanding buildings in southern England. session. Topics for the session which addresses a wide Lectures will be given by speakers of national and interna­ spectrum of subjects in Art History include: Ancient and tional repute and will explore the richness of Stuart Medieval; Renaissance; Baroque through 18th Century; achievement in the fields of architecture, interior decora­ American Art; Southern Architecture; 20th Century Art; tion, painting, furnishing and gardens. Contact: Dr. J. the History, Theory and Criticism of Photography; Pre­ Sweetman and Mrs. B. Peacock, Fine Arts, The University Columbian and Latin American Art; and the History of Art of Southampton S09 5NH. History. The deadline for the submission