VOL. XXXIII NO. 1 FEBRUARY 1989

_ liTI(fTAS RRffiiTAS UEDUSlBS - NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS

SAH NOTICES 'Rundbogenstil' in the Mid-Nineteenth the form of a single-page letter setting Century" and "Chicago and the Birth of forth a brief statement of the project, 1989 Annual Meeting-, Cana­ an American Architecture at the Tum of with attached budget, schedule for com­ da (Apri I 12-16). Elisabeth Blair Mac­ the Century." On Saturday, April 8th, top­ pletion, professional resume, and the Dougall, Harvard University (retired), ics are "Modernism in America before names of the three persons who may be will be general chair of the meeting. the Exhibition of 'Modem Architecture' contacted for references. There are no Phyllis Lambert, Canadian Centre for at the Museum of Modem. Art in 1932" application forms issued by the Fellow­ Architecture, will serve as local chair­ and "The Legacy of the German Emigres ship. Applications should be addressed to man. Headquarters for the meeting will after 1933." The symposium is free and the Chairman, Peterson Fellowship Com­ be the Meridien Hotel. The final printed open to any interested persons. Please mittee, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, program (with pre-registration form and contact the Buell Center for further infor­ East Washington Square, Philadelphia, hotel reservation form) has been sent to mation: Buell Center for the Study of Pennsylvania 19106-3794. the membership. Members are reminded American Architecture, 400 Avery Hall, that this program should be brought with Columbia University, New York, NY them to the meeting in April. Please note 10027, (212) 854-7374. deadlines for the purchase of tickets for EXHIBITIONS tours and other functions, and cut-off dates for reserving rooms at the Meridien The Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181, will Hotel. Important Notice hold an exhibition in the spring of I 989 1990 Annual Meeting-Boston, Mas­ to All Members entitled: On the Boards: Drawings by sachusetts (March 28-April 1 ). Elisabeth It is time to appoint an Asso­ Nineteenth-Century Boston Architects. Blair MacDougall, Harvard University The show will include some 100 known (retired), will be general chair of the ciate Editor for the Journal of the SAH. The Associate Editor will and unknown sheets by known and meeting. Keith Morgan, Boston Universi­ unknown draftsmen from Charles serve a one-year term before ty, will serve as local chairman. Head­ Bulfinch to Ralph Adams Cram. A com­ quarters for the meeting will be the Park becoming Editor. Anyone inter­ plete range of architectural graphics will Plaza Hotel. A call for papers will be ested in this position should be presented as a "sampler" of the draw­ published in the April Newsletter. immediately write to David ings created by local designers of the last 1989 Foreign Tour, The English Mid­ Bahlman at 1232 Pine Street, century. lands (June 28 to July 19, 1989). Carol Philadelphia, PA 19107, describ­ The exhibition is curated by James F. Herselle Krinsky, New York University, ing qualifications and previous O'Gorman, Grace Slack McNeil will be the leader of this tour. A descrip­ editing experience. Deadline for Professor of American Art at Wellesley; tive brochure on this architectural history submission: March 15, 1989. he has also prepared a complete cata­ study tour will reach the membership this logue to be published under the same title month. by the University of Pennsylvania Press. 1989 Domestic Tour, , Cali­ The exhibition will open with a sym­ fornia (tentative dates are September CORRECTION posium on the afternoon of April 15th, 5-10). Robert Winter, Occidental College, 1989. It will run to early June. For infor­ will be the leader of this tour. Details will Note: The following information in the mation call the Museum at (617) 235- reach the members in March. December Newsletter gave incorrect 0320. dates. The correct dates follow: The A major exhibit of the drawings and SYMPOSIUM Athenaeum of Philadelphia announces papers of Robert Mills, who designed the Charles E. Peterson Research Fellow­ some of Washington's best-known monu­ The Buell Center for the Study of Ameri­ ships for 1989-1990. Grants range in ments and buildings, opened in can Architecture at Columbia University amount from $1,000 to $15,000 for Washington Jan. 19, 1989. "Robert Mills, is hosting a symposium, American advanced research in early American Designs for Democracy," will be on dis­ Architecture and the German Connec­ architecture and building technology play through April 2 at the Octagon tion, in conjunction with Columbia Uni­ prior to 1860 for use during the year June Museum of the American Institute of versity's Deutsches Haus and the 1, 1989, to May 31, 1990. Architects. It will feature more than 85 of Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdi­ -Applications will be accepted the South Carolina native's drawings and enst. The symposium will be held from between January 1, 1989, and March 1, renderings, many of which have never 9:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. on April 7th and 1989. Awards will be announced by April been displayed publicly. The exhibit will 8th. On Friday, April 7th, speakers will 30, 1989. be shown April 23-June 11 at the address the issues of "The Impact of the -Applications should be submitted in Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia. Other locations are to be announced perspectives are welcome, as are Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085 (USA). shortly. John Bryan, art historian at the contributions from any discipline. Papers (215) 527-2564. University of South Carolina in describing works in progress and Columbia, is guest curator for the show, tentative conclusions are invited. QUERIES organized by the American Architectural Speakers receive an honorarium plus Information is being sought for the Foundation. Bryan also has edited a book expenses. Papers will be published. proper restoration of an 1866 chapel in of essays about Mills, the first native­ Written proposals are due March 1, Darien, Connecticut. The chapel is born American to train for a career in 1989; acceptances will be announced believed to be designed by architect Gage architecture. April 1. Contact Co-Chairs Kenneth Inslee of . The majority of Mills, who lived from 1781-1855, was Ames or Katharine Martinez, Winterthur the edifice was constructed from a very a protege of Thomas Jefferson's. He Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735. experimental type of concrete block com­ designed a number of monuments and The sixteenth annual Carolinas posed of natural cement, the forefather of buildings in the Washington area, includ­ Symposium on British Studies will be the more common portland cement. It is ing the Washington National Monument, held at the University of North Carolina believed that the chapel is one of the ear­ the U.S. Patent Office and the Treasury at Charlotte on October 21 and 22, 1989. liest examples of this construction in the Building. He also designed buildings, The Symposium provides an annual country. If anyone has information on bridges and canals in his native South forum for the delivery of scholarly other natural concrete block buildings in Carolina, as well as in Baltimore and presentations and the exchange of ideas their area or has information on Gage Philadelphia. Mills designed the South relating to all aspects of British Studies, Inslee, please contact: Richard Bergmann Caroliniana Library and the Maxcy including history, literature, art and Architects, 63 Park Street, New Canaan, Monument, both located on USC's cam­ architecture, government, dance, and CT 06840, (203) 966-9505. pus. Mills' career spanned a critical peri­ music. While the Symposium is Since 1983, the Historic American od in the building and transformation of regionally based in the Southeast, Buildings Survey/Historic American America and reflects the interaction participants are welcome from all parts of Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) between the arts and technologies of his the country. The program committee Division has published an annual report time. When Mills died in 1855, he suc­ invites proposals for individual papers, that outlines its activities and accom­ cessfully had established his version of full sessions, and panel discussions. A plishments made throughout the year. In the Greek Revival as the style most $250 prize will be awarded for the best January 1989, HABS/HAER will release expressive of the new American political paper from among those read at the a report that will detail all activities and system. "He's one of the unsung heroes Symposium and submitted to the achievements made during 1988. If you of architecture," said Judith Schultz, evaluation committee by the following would like a copy, please write to Jean curator of exhibitions at the Octagon May, with the possibility of publication in Yearby, Publications Specialist, HABS/ Museum. "Many of his buildings became Albion. We also invite submissions for HAER Division (429), National Park prototypes for structures all over the the student paper session from both Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, country, and he also came up with impor­ graduate students and undergraduates, D.C. 20013-7127, or call her at (202) tant innovations for fireproofing and with a prize in each category. Proposals 343-9628. acoustics." For the past four years, the or papers should be sent by April 15, The following information was Mills project team has scoured the coun­ 1989, to Betty Young, East Campus received from Carl W. Condit, "I have try and located 5,000 of the architect's Library, Duke University, Durham, North continued research on the history of the documents and 171 drawings in libraries, Carolina 27708. All who submit New York skyscraper and have brought historical societies and regional and proposals will be notified of the decision the materials up to 1940. Since I have not national archives. of the program committee by early June. found a collaborator and have no hope of CALL FOR PAPERS AVISTA, the Association Villard de completing a project of this magnitude, I Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary have deposited the notes in the Archives The Winterthur Museum solicits Study of Medieval Technology, of the Avery Library, where they are papers for a conference The Material Science, and Art, invites papers on the available to any qualified scholar. I have Culture of Gender/The Gender of topic "Transportation as Depicted in accumulated 250 typewritten pages of Material Culture scheduled for Friday Medieval Art and Literature" for notes with a bibliography of 650 entries. I and Saturday, November lOth and 11th, presentation at its sessions during the have deposited these notes in the 1989. The conference organizers seek a Twenty-Fifth International Congress on Archives of the Avery Library, Columbia wide-ranging examination of links Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, University, where they are available to between sexuality and material culture. Michigan, from 3-6 May 1990. Possible any qualified scholar with the single stip­ Papers may address any North American sub-topics include 1) the credibility of ulation that my name appear under the subject from the seventeenth century to artistic depictions; 2) transport-logistics title page of any publication based on the twentieth. Potential topics include, in military and naval campaigns: the their use, along with that of the author." but are not limited to: gender and value; interpretation of chronicle evidence; 3) Carl W. Condit, Professor Emeritus, 9300 roles and identities; the construction of frequent flyers: miraculous journeys or Linder Avenue, Morton Grove, Illinois gender; concepts of maleness and the translation of holy relics; 4) travel on 60053. femaleness; power and domination; the pilgrimage routes; 5) delivering the The SAH member who responded after beauty; taboos and fetishes ; homo­ goods: merchants and merchandise. Talks the Vitruvius session at the Chicago sexuality and the arts; domesticity; are limited to 20 minutes. Send one­ meeting with comments on timber and symbolism; gender in things; and ways page abstracts, indicating audio-visual military equipment, please write to material culture informs men's studies needs, by September 15, 1989, to Dr. Thomas Gordon Smith, School of and women's studies. Cross-cultural Barbara M. Kreutz, 238 North Ithan (Continued on page 7)

2 THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE

To welcome members to the Annual both retrospective and current journals, ject matter. Photography affected archi­ Meeting in Montreal Phyllis Lambert, and includes an outstanding collection of tectural perception and practice by docu­ local chairperson, has offered these rare serials ranging from the earliest menting and interpreting built form with comments about The Canadian Centre architectural journals to those on avant­ an immediacy and accuracy not possible for Architecture of which she is director. garde architecture in France, Holland, in other media. The department has The Canadian Centre for Architecture Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and assembled a collection that provides an is a museum and study centre established the Soviet Union in the nineteen twenties. historically grounded understanding of to further the understanding of architec­ Architectural drawings, from initial the practice and achievement of architec­ ture and to help broaden public concern conceptual sketches to working contract tural photography and the historical docu­ for the built environment. Since its drawings, are unique documents, provid­ mentation of buildings, gardens and city­ founding in 1979, the CCA has assem­ ing evidence of how the design of a scapes. The collection provides a com­ bled collections of architectural docu­ building develops. Currently the Prints prehensive history of the medium as mentation which are the basis of its pro­ and Drawings Department holdings related to architecture, from the grams of research, publications and exhi­ number some 20,000 works representing announcement of photography in 1839 to bitions. Thest; collections comprise one architects and theorists of the late fif­ the present. The collection includes of the most important architectural study teenth and early sixteenth centuries examples of the work of the major pho­ collections in existence. As a study centre through the present-Il Cronaca and tographers who have explored architec­ the CCA welcomes researchers from Palladio, and Arthur ture as a subject as well as the anony­ around the world. Its activities are inter­ Erikson- as well as artists whose work mous photographic records of buildings national in scope and are directed toward influenced architectural thinking- Louis­ still standing or now demolished. The architects, scholars and the public. Jean Desprez, Kazimir Malevich and the CCA also commissions photographic Through a program of exhibitions, the engraver Wenceslas Hollar. Within the projects documenting a wide variety of CCA presents a wide range of topics of collections, architecture is interpreted to architectural subjects. local and international concern. The CCA include the related disciplines of inte­ Since its founding the CCA has sponsors research projects, publications, rior design (Juste-Aurele Meissonier, worked to develop models of access to its conferences and participates in biblio­ for example), stage design (Michele collections by creating an integrated graphic and conservation programs with Marieschi), and city planning (Thomas database through which all types of other museums and libraries. Mawson), Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (the material in the collection- books and peri­ The collections of the CCA support its engineer), Pietro Bracci and Melvin odicals, prints and drawings, pho­ purpose as a centre of advanced research Charney (sculptor/architects), Johan von tographs, archives- may be searched and as a museum. The scope of the four Schwalbach and Albrecht Diirer (writers singly, in combination, or collectively. major research collections is interna­ on and designers of fortifications), are This access is extended beyond the CCA tional in depth and breadth. In the represented also. The collection encom­ through its participation in international formation of the collections, emphasis passes travel sketches, designs for vision­ information networks, the Research has been placed on assembling groups of ary structures, and competition drawings Library Network, the Foundation for related documents. They form an inter­ (including those which are executed for Documents of Architecture and the asso­ connected collection of books, prints, student competitions held at schools of ciated Architectural Drawings Advisory drawings and photographs that are con­ architecture). Designs for buildings pro­ Group. By developing scholarly stan­ cerned with architecture in its largest duced at different times and for varied dards for automated cataloging, these net­ sense, from conceptual formulation to the locations are brought together, offering works seek to provide intellectual access shaping of the natural and built environ­ historical insight into architectural prac­ to architectural records world wide. ment. tice. The conservation laboratory at the At present the library includes over To date the Architectural Archives of CCA houses advanced equipment for the 120,000 volumes on the history, theory the CCA number more than a quarter of a analysis and treatment of works on paper. and practice of world architecture both million items. The architectural archive is Chemical and optical examination also past and present. It is one of three major composed of all the elements that give permit insight into how certain artifacts libraries devoted to the subject. Building evidence of the personality and the prac­ are fabricated. and continually strengthening a scholarly tice of an architect- the whole range of The CCA's new building (Fig. 1) is collection supports advanced research on drawings, specifications, models, work­ situated at the western end of downtown architecture, as well as related subjects ing tools, travel sketches, account books, Montreal, at the foot of Mount Royal. It such as gardening, fortifications, theatre as well as the architect's library and col­ stands in one of the two oldest settled design, building technology, and urban lected works of art. The CCA Archives sections of the city. The stone fort, built planning. Its holdings range from fif­ hold records of architects and planners here by the Sulpicians before 1695, ante­ teenth century imprints to the present. who worked across Canada in the first dates the earliest stone fortifications of Two examples of the library's special half of the twentieth century as well as the city (now le vieux-Montreal) along holdings are the original editions of those of contemporary architects who the river front by a generation. The two books on Italian cities from the fifteenth have worked internationally. southern towers of this fort still stand, to the nineteenth centuries and a collec­ In the size and quality of its holdings two blocks north of the CCA. During the tion of eighteenth and nineteenth century the Photographs Department is one of eighteenth and most of the nineteenth guides to British country houses. The the major collections of photographs any­ centuries the area, with its fields, farms, periodical collection is very strong in where and it is unique in its focus on sub- orchards and villas, was known as "par-

3 adis terrestre." The purpose of the exhibitions and In the last half of the nineteenth centu­ their accompanying publications is to ry, three of Montreal's four great, reli­ raise intellectual issues in a coherent way, gious founding institutions relocated here to raise consciousness, and to develop from the old city. The CCA site, com­ knowledge and understanding based on posed of two city blocks laid waste by the immediacy of original documents. highway construction three decades ago, Exhibitions will be generated by the is adjacent to these nineteenth century CCA or be organized by other institu­ religious houses with their long grey­ tions. In April 1989 members of the SAH stone walled gardens. Only the 187 4 will be invited to preview the two open­ Shaughnessy House remained on the site. ing exhibitions prepared by the CCA. A major task in the design ·Of the new "Architecture and its Image" examines building and its surroundings was to the complex relationships between draw­ reweave the derelict urban tissue. As any ings, photographs, prints and other two­ work of architecture must, the building's dimensional works on paper and the designs had to compliment, even improve buildings, landscapes and cities they rep­ upon, the architectural quality of its resent. The exhibition assembles images neighbourhood. At the same time the from the early sixteenth century to the design had to reach beyond the neigh­ late twentieth century, from Tokyo and bourhood to encompass both the best tra­ Rome to Mississauga and Montreal. It is ditions of the city and the timeless values curated by Eve Blau, Curator of Fig. I. of architecture. Exhibitions and Publications at the CCA, Clara Gutsehe United States, 1949- The building, designed by Montreal and Edward Kaufman, Assistant Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal: architect with Phyllis Lambert Professor in the School of Architecture at Construction View of Entrance Court from as consulting architect and Erol Argun as Columbia University. The exhibition is Cloakroom associate architect, is equipped with exhi­ accompanied by a catalog with essays by Gelatin silver print bition galleries, a 217 seat auditorium, six scholars who explore aspects of the June 20, 1987 bookstore, library, offices for visiting exhibition's theme. In addition to the 49.9 x 39.7 em scholars and state-of-the-art conservation curators' there are contributions by Collection Centre Canadien d' Architecture and storage facilities. The new building Robin Evans, William Alexander Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal is integrated with Shaughnessy House, McClung, Helene Lipstadt and Robert now a classified historic monument Bruegmann. (1974). The house (Fig. 2), designed by The exhibition "Centre Canadien W. T. Thomas, has been restored under d' Architecture/Canadian Center for the supervision of Denis St.-Louis and Architecture: Building and Gardens" contains reception areas and the adminis­ examines attitudes toward design and tration offices of the CCA. construction. It places the CCA building Both the house and the new building and public landscape in an historical and are constructed of Saint Lawrence Valley actual context. Larry Richards, architect grey limestone, the characteristic build­ and Associate Professor at the University ing material of Montreal's historic archi­ of Waterloo, is the curator of the exhibi­ tecture. The new building is on four lev­ tion as well as the editor of the publica­ els, each 30,000 square feet in area. The tion bearing the same title. Contributing design of the complex restores the resi­ essays to this book are by the principals dential street-scape; its main elevation in design, Melvin Charney and Phyllis establishes the fourth side of a new Lambert, and there is an interview with municipal square. This has been land­ Peter Rose by Chantal Pontbriand and scaped as a public park in consultation George Baird. John Harris' introduction with Gerrard and Mackars, landscape describes the historical evolution of the architects. Across Boulevard Rene­ architectural museum and Larry Levesque is the CCA garden designed by Richards' essay on "critical classicism" Melvin Charney. Extending the underly­ analyses the building and gardens. ing intellectual and physical order of the Together "Architecture and its Image" Fig. 2. CCA building, the garden is conceived as and "CCA: Building and Gardens" reveal Clara Gutsche an architectural allegorical narrative. the potential of a museum of architecture United States, 1949- With the official opening of its new as a statement: about the nature of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal: building on May 7, 1989, the CCA will works it collects and exhibits; about its Construction View of Staircase, West half of initiate an on-going public program. This role in the life of a culture and a city; and Shaughnessy House will include changing exhibitions, publi­ Gelatin silver print about architecture itself. In April 1989 February 21 , 1987 cations, colloquia, lectures, seminars, as the exhibition will be in the galleries. The 49.9 x 39.7 em well as film and concert series. Within books, co-published by the CCA and the year after opening, the CCA's MIT, will be in the CCA bookstore. We Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture Institute of Advanced Study in welcome you to the CCA and to Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal Architecture will establish a program for Montreal. scholars-in-residence.

4 BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Achleiter~ Achim. Alt-St. Peter in Geschichte und Enqlish extremists : the architecture of Camobell Wissenschaft : Abfolae der Bauten. Rekonstruktion Zooolovitch Wilkinson Gough. London: Fourth Estate, 1988. Architekturproaram. Berlin: Gebr. Mann~ 1988. 271 p. 112 p. \Blueprint monograph) tl2.95 DM128. ISBN 3-7861-1410-2 Ferre, Felipe. Hector Guimard. New York: Abrams, 1988. Alofsin. Anthonv. ed. Frank Llovd Wriaht : an index to 223 p. $49.50. Trans. of Hector Guimard. archte. Rev. the Taliesin corresoondenc~ New York: Garland~ 1988. 5 and enl. ISBN 0-8109-0973-1 vols. 11~000.00. ISBN 0-8240-4029-5 Follina~ Toni. Proaetti e architetture/ orojects and Archer~ John. "Ideology and aspiration : individualism~ works !965-1987. Milan: Electa~ 1988. 211 p. L40000. ISBN the middle class. and the genesis of the Anglo-American 88-435-2380-5 / suburb" Journal of Urban Historv 14:2 Feb. 1988 pp. 214- Gaston Castel. architecte marseillais. Marseille: Edisud~ 253 1988. 152 p. Fl15. ISBN 2-85744-340-4 Beseler~ Hartwig and Niels Gutschow. Krieosschicksale Golombek, Lisa and Donald Wilber. The Timurid deutscher Archi tektur : Verluste. Schiiden. Wiederaufbau. architecture of Iran and Tura~ Princeton, N.J.: Neumunster: Karl Wachholtz~ 1988. 2 vols. ISBN 3-529- Princeton Univ. Press~ 1988. 1 vol. (Princeton 02685-9 monograpns 1n art and archaeology; 46) $130.00. ISBN Biancolini, Daniela, ed. II secolo di Antonelli : Novara 0-691-03587-3 1798-1888. Novara: Istituto Geografico de Agostini~ Goode~ James M. Best addresses : centurv of Washinoton ' s 1988. 351 p. l35000. ISBN 88-402-0011-8 distinauised apartment houses. Washington, D.C.: Bold~ John with John Reeves. Wilton House and English Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. 597 p. ISBN 0- Palladianism. London: H.M.S.O., 1988. 168 p.-i:-15.00. ISBN 87474-476-8~ 0-87474-477-6 0-11-300022-7 Gozak~ Andrei and Andrei Leonidov. Ivan Leonidov : the Braunfels. Wolfgang. Urban desian in Western Eurooe somolete works. New York: Rizzoli, 1988. 216 p. 560.00. regime and architecture. 900-190Q Chicago: Univ. of ISBN 0-8478-0951-X Chicago Press. 1988. 407 p. Trans. of Abendlindische Gutman~ Robert. Architectural practice : a critical view. Stadtbaukunst. ISBN 0-226-0?i 78-2 Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988. 147 p. J ~ Brunov~ Nikolai lvanovich. Khram Vasiliia Blazhennogo v $7.95. ISBN 0-9104!3-45-2 Mt•sh·e : Pokrovski'l sobor. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1988. 255 Hunter, Julius K. Westmoreland and Portland olaces : the p. + 123 pl. historv and architecture of America's premier private Capella~ Juli and Quim Larrea. Desiqned bv architects in ~treets. 1888-1988. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press~ the 1980s. New York: Rizzoli, i988. 191 p. $30.00. ISBN 1988. 219 p. $39.95. ISBN 0-8262-06770-8 0-8478-0941-2 H~ter, Karl-Heinz. Architektur in Berlin 1930-1933. Centre Canadien d'Archi tecture/Canadian Centre for Stuttgart : Kohlhammer! 1988. 367 p. ISBN 3-17-009732-6 Architecture: les debuts/the__first five vears 1979-!984. Ib._e_J. Paul Gettv Museum ouide to the villa and its Montreal: Centre Canadien d'Architecture. 1988. 135 p. gardens. t1alibu, CA: The Museum, 1988. 72 p. $7.95. ISBN 0-920785-02-6 ISBN 0-89236-081 Coggeshall~ John ri. and JoAnne Nast. Vernacular James~ Warren A., ed. Ricardo Bofill/Taller de architecture in sGuthern Illinois : the ethnic heritaae. Arauitectura : buildinGs and orojects 1960-1985. New Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press~ 1988. 203 York: Rinoli~ 1988. 239 p. $45.00~ $29.95. ISBN 0- p. !Shawnee books! $12.95. ISBN 0-8093-1463-0 8478-0739-8, 0-8478-0740-1 Cohen~ Judith S. Cowtown moderne : art deeD architecture Jencks, Charles. The prince. the architects and new wave of Fort Worth Texa~ Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1988. 202 p. monarch~ New York: Rizzoli, 1988. 56 p. $14.95. ISBN 0- $29.95. ISBN Hl/565-065-1 8478-1010-0 Cracraft, James. The Petrine revolution in Russian Jennings~ Jan and Herbert Gottfried. American vernacular architecture. Chicago: Univ. of Chicgo Press, 1988. 372 interior architecture. 1870-1940. New York: Van Nostrand ... p. 145.00. ISBN 0-226-11664-6 Reinhold~ 1988. 438 p. $39.95. ISBN 0-442-22810-4 Darius. Veronika. Der Architekt Gottfried Bohm : Bauten Johnson, Philip and Mark Wigley. Deconstructivist der sechziaer Jahre. Dusseldorf: Beton-Uerlag, 1988. 112 architecture. New York: Museum of Modern Art~ 1988. 104 p. DM80. ISBN 3-7640-0236-0 p. $17.95. ISBN 0-87070-298-1 Davies~ Colin. Hiah tech architecture. New York: Rizzoli, Karol, Eitan and Finch Allibone. Charles Holden architect 1988. !59 p. ISBN 0-8478-0887-4 1875-1960. London: Royal Institute of British ARchitects~ De Long~ David Gilson. Bruce Goff : toward absolute Heinz Gallery, 1988. 35 p. architecturs New York: Architectural History Foundation Kaufman~ Edward and Sharon Irish. Med1evalism : an ; Cambridge~ MA: MIT Press, 1988. 388 p. !American annotated biblioaraphv of recent research in the monograph series) 150.00. ISBN 0-262-04097-2 architecture and art of Britain a~d North America. New Dee, Elaine Evans and Guy Walton. Versailles : the view York: Garland, 1988. 279 p. !Garland reference librarv from Swede~ New York: Cooper-Hewit Museum, 1988. 111 p. of the humanities ; vol. 791i ISBN 0-910503-56-7 K~6bl, Herbert. Das Neuaebaude und sein baulicher

5 Zusammenhana mit Schlc•ss Schonbrunn. Vienna: Bc;h l au, Stuttgart: Karl Kra.mer, 1988. 312 p. $75.00. ISBN 3-7828- 1988. 142 p. ISBN 3-205-05106-8 1604-8 Kreul, Andreas. Die Barockbaumeister Fischer von Erlach Ranalli, George. Buildings and oroiects. Princeton: Biblioaraohie zu Leben und Werk. Wiesbaden: Otto Princeton Architectural Press, 1988. 107 p. $19.95. ISBN Harrassowitz, 1988. 156 p. DM48.00. ISBN 3-447-02798-3 0-910413-42-8 Krieger, Alex. The architecture of Kallmann McKinnell & F:obinson, John Martin. The Enol ish countrv estate. Wood. New York: F:izzoli, 1988. 121 p. $25.00. ISBN 0- London: The National Trust, 1988. 216 p. t16.95. ISBN 0- 8478-0939-0 7126-2275-6 Leach, Peter. James Pain~ London: Zwemmer, 1988. 240 p. Sachsse, Rolf. Architekturfotoorafie des 19. Jahrhunderts \Studies in architecture; 251 -t65.00. IS!iN 0-302-00602-8 an Beispielen aus der fotoorafischen Sammlunq des Museums Lowell, Waverly B., ed. Architectural records in the San Folfa•lang. Berlin: Nishen, 1988. 31 p. (Stationen der Francisco Bay area : a ouide to research. New York: Fotografie; 61 ISBN 3-88940-306-9 Garland, 1988. 350 p. 16arland reference library of the Saggio, Antonio. Un architetto american Louis Sauer. humanities; vol. 7991 ISBN 0-8240-6614-6 Rome: Officina, 1988. 204 p. L20000 Lyall, Sutherland. Dream cottaoes : from cottaoe ornee to San Crist&bal Sebastiin. Antonio. Arouitectura virreynal stockbroker Tudor : two hundred years of the cult of the relioiosa de Lima. Lima1 Peru: Libreria Studium, 1988. vernacular. London: F:obert Hale, 1988. 174 p.-t14.95. 400 p. IS9N 0-7090-3286-2 Scully, Vincent. American architecture and urbanism. Matteucci, Anna Maria. L'architettura del settecento. New rev. ed. New York: Holt, 1988. 320 p. ISBN 0- Turin: Utet, 1988. 355 p. \Storia dell'arte in itaiial 8050-0105-0, 0-8050-0813-6 L75000. ISBN 88-02-04199-7 Severens, Kenneth. Charleston antebellum architecture and Michelucci, Giovanni. 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6 QUERIES Directed by Gavin Stamp, M.A., Ph.D., application contact: Myron 0. Stachiw or Continued from page 2) Architectural Historian and author. Based Nora Pat Small, Research Department, at College Hall of the University of Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Architecture, M/C030, University of London in Bloomsbury. The fee of Village Rd., Sturbridge, MA 01566, (508) Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL 60680. $1,750.00 includes accommodations, 347-3362. The Historic American Buildings breakfasts, and entrance fees. Survey and Historic American AMERICAN SCHOOL-June 2-11, Engineering Record are seeking infor­ CONFERENCES mation for a comprehensive bibliography 1989. Directed by Richard Guy Wilson, of publications by and about the two sur­ author and Professor of Architectural The Division of Architectural History veys, from the establishment of HABS in History at the University of Virginia. at The University of Virginia announces 1933 until the end of 1988. Based at Salve Regina College in the establishment of an annual sympo­ According to Robert J. Kapsch, Chief, Newport, R.I. The fee of $795.00 sium devoted to the history of architec­ HABS/HAER, the bibliography is intend­ includes accommodations, receptions, ture and art. The topic for the first sym­ ed as a finding aid for architectural histo­ entrance fees and bus transportation posium will be The Villa and rians, architects, historians and other while on tour. Pastoralism in America, 1730-1830, to researchers. James C. Massey, a former Application deadline, March 10, 1989. be held on March 17 and 18, 1989. For HABS chief, will direct its compilation. Enrollment is limited. For applications further information contact, Division of Individuals and organizations that have and information contact: Maria Nocito, Architectural History, School of cooperated in funding and running Summer School Coordinator, Victorian Architecture, University of Virginia, HABS/HAER field projects, librarians, Society in America, 219 South 6th Street, Charlottesville, VA 22903. (804) 924- and past HABS/HAER officials are asked Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Tel.: (215) 627- 3976. to share their knowledge of older or local 4252. A Christopher Wren Symposium will publications for listing in the illustrated Old Sturbridge Village will hold its be held at the Churchill Memorial and bibliography. State and local publications first annual Summer Field School in Library April 28, 29 and 30, 1989, in from the 1930s are of particular interest. Architectural History from June 26 to Fulton, Mo. The focus of the symposium, In addition to every edition of the August 11, 1989. The program, focusing says the chairman, Professor Christian national, regional, state and local cata­ on buildings of the late eighteenth and Hauer, of Westminster College, will be logs, the bibliography will include mea­ early nineteenth century in rural Central Wren's multifaceted contributions to the sured drawing folios, leaflets and circu­ Massachusetts, will feature intensive Anglo-American cultural heritage. lars, documentary publications relating to instruction and experience in architec­ Wren's church of St. Mary the Virgin, the history, organization and operation of tural documentation techniques: measur­ Aldermanbury, was dismantled in Lon­ HABS, exhibit catalogs, internal docu­ ing and drawing buildings; architectural don and reconstructed at Westminster ments such as instructions and specifica­ photography; and a thorough introduction College as the core of a memorial to tions for field workers and record compil­ to documentary research. Guest lecturers Churchill, who gave his famous "Iron ers, and books and booklets based on from numerous disciplines will make pre­ Curtain" speech at the college in 1946. HABS/HAER records. It will also sentations on current methods in the The symposium will coincide with the include an index and a short-title selec­ study of architecture and New England 20th anniversary of the 1969 dedication tion of books and articles not generated history. The Field School in Architectural of the Memorial. Symposium topics will by HABS/HAER that use significant History will be held in conjunction with include: Wren's philosophy as evidenced numbers of HABS or HAER photographs the eleventh annual Old Sturbridge in his buildings; Wren the architect; Wren and drawings. Village Summer Field School in the mathematician and scientist; and the Co-compilers, with Massey, are Nancy Historical Archeology. The second sea­ Wren Church of St. Mary, Aldermanbury. B. Schwartz and Shirley Maxwell. They son of archaeological excavation at the Complementing the symposium will be may be contacted through Massey house and shop site of the early nine­ an exhibit, "Christopher Wren's London" Maxwell Associates, P.O. Box 263, teenth century cabinetmaker/housewright in the special exhibits gallery of the Strasburg, VA 22657, (703) 465-4566. James Clark of West Brookfield, Memorial. The exhibit will become part Massachusetts, will be complemented by of the museum's permanent collection COURSES the documentation of buildings in West and will be available to other institutions. Brookfield and the surrounding towns, The symposium committee is also plan­ The Victorian Society in America and several of which were erected by Clark. ning a concert of music from the age of The Victorian Society in Great Britain Students in both field schools will be Wren that will make use of the Mander announce the 1989 Summer Program of given many opportunities to interact with tracker organ in the church. Nineteenth-Century Studies. These their counterparts and will be encouraged For further information: Winston summer programs initiated fifteen years to explore and integrate the methods and Churchill Memorial and Library in the ago under the aegis of Sir Nicholas findings of the other group. Negotiations United States, Westminster College, Pevsner and His Royal Highness, the are currently underway with Clark Fulton, Missouri 65251, phone: (314) Duke of Gloucester, are a unique and University of Worcester, Massachusetts 642-6648/(314) 642-3361. highly successful endeavor sponsored by to grant both undergraduate and graduate Sacred Trusts II: MONEY, MATERI­ the Victorian Societies in America and course credits to field school participants. ALS & MANAGEMENT, a conference Great Britain. The courses, taught by Applications to the Old Sturbridge sponsored by the Detroit Historic experts in their fields, include lectures, Village Field School in Architectural Designation Advisory Board, the tours and weekend trips to significant History must be returned by May 1, National Trust for Historic Preservation, sites in America and England. 1989. Enrollment is limited to twenty stu­ and the National Center for the LONDON SCHOOL-July 8-29, 1989. dents. For further information and an Stewardship and Preservation of

7 Religious Properties, will be held in (with vitae, letter of application, and names and Convent Avenue at 138th Street, New York, NY Detroit, May 17-21, 1989. Preservation­ addresses of three references) to: Michael 10031. ists, clergy, laypeople and craftspeople Alfano, Jr., Chairman, Search Committee, • Charlotte, North Carolina 28223. The Univer­ will gather to address the challenges fac­ School of Architecture, Florida A & M Universi­ sity of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of ing historic religious buildings and their ty, Tallahassee, FL 32307. Architecture. FACULTY POSITION/ASST. or solutions. Includes workshops, issues • St. Louis, Missouri 63130. Washington Uni­ ASSOC. PROFESSOR to teach Contemporary forums, tours, trade show, photo exhibit. versity in St. Louis, School of Architecture. Architectural History and Theory. Expected to For information and brochure, contact the FACULTY POSITION/ARCHITECTURAL HISTO­ teach a lecture or seminar course and conduct Historic Designation Advisory Board, RY. Available Fall 1989 at Assistant Professor a studio at both the undergraduate and soon to 202 City County Building, Detroit, MI level, appointment to position is tenure track. be initiated graduate research (architectural 48226 or (313) 224-3487. Appointment requires teaching courses and design-technology-theory) programs. Candi­ The next annual symposium in seminars in architectural history, theory, and date is expected to have a professional degree Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton criticism . Active interested in architectural stu­ in architecture, and graduate study in architec­ Oaks will be held on 19-21 May 1989. dio reviews is very important. Some adminis­ tural history-theory as well as demonstrated This three-day event will be in the nature trative duties are also required. Preference interest in teaching, research or theory based of a state of the art enquiry: what has gar­ given to candidates holding or currently com­ practice. Should be committed to working with den history achieved? Where should it go pleting Ph.D. degree, with strength in the other faculty to provide a holistic, innovative architectural education while developing the from here? Speakers from all over the development of theoretical attitudes and the history/theory program. Position available world will consider different cultural gar­ promise of continuing scholarship. Committee August 1989. Application deadline February 15, dens and their history, different approach­ will begin to evaluate candidates on February 1989. AA/EOE. Apply (with vitae and statement es to garden history, and different eras of 15, 1989. EO/AAE. Verification of employment eligibility required. Apply (with letter of applica­ of your thoughts and approach to teaching and garden creation from ancient Roman, to History-Theory-Design) to: Charles C. Hight, colonial American and nineteenth­ tion, curriculum vitae, recommendation letters and statement of intention) to: Chairperson, Dean, College of Architecture, UNCC, Charlotte, century England. Preliminary enquiries Faculty Search Committee, School of Architec­ NC 28223. and pre-registration forms from Studies ture, Washington University, St. Louis, MO in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton 63130. • Montreal, Canada H3A 2T6. McGill Universi­ Oaks, 1703 32nd Street, N.W., ty, Faculty of Arts, Department of Art History. Washington, D.C. 20007. • New York, New York 10031. City College/City FACULTY POSITION, tenured appointment in University of New York, School of Architectural the History of Architecture at level of full Pro­ PLACEMENT NOTICES and Environmental Studies. FULL TIME fessor, commencing in September 1989. First TENURE TRACK FACULTY POSITION, in Archi­ preference is for candidates specializing in • Tallahassee, Florida 32307. Florida A & M tectural History. Starting August 1989. Rank Medieval or Renaissance architecture. Strong University, School of Architecture. TENURE and salary commensurate with experience . scholarly record and administrative experience TRACE FACULTY POSITIONS. Available Fall Qualifications should include Ph.D. in Art or are required. Responsibilities include teaching 1989. Projected areas of need are basic and Architecture w/specialization in Architectural courses and seminars .at the undergraduate advanced architectural design, history and the­ History, and teaching experience. Responsibili­ and graduate levels, and supervision of gradu­ ory, environmental technology, structures, ties include teaching core courses in architec­ ate theses. Remuneration commensurate with materials and methods of construction, and tural history and other speciality courses. Addi ­ qualifications and experience. Application graphics. Minimum requirements are a mas­ tional areas of professional and scholarly deadline February 28, 1989 or until position ter's degree in, the area of primary expertise activity are encouraged. Application deadline has been filled . Apply (with application, com­ and evidence of university teaching experience March 1, 1989. EO/ AA. Apply (with letter of plete curriculum vitae, and three letters of ref­ and other professional qualifications. Rank and application, curriculum vitae, names and erence) to: Dr. Thomas L. Glen, Chairman, salary will be dependent upon experience and addresses of three references) to: Garrison Department of Art History, McGill University, qualifications. EO/AAE, eager to recruit quali­ McNeil, Chairman, School of Architectural & 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Que­ fied women and minority candidates. Apply Environmental Studies, City College of CUNY, bec, H3A 2T6 Canada.

FEBRUARY 1989 VOL. XXXIII NO. 1 Society of Architectural Historians Non-Profit Org. 1232 Pine Street U. S. Postage The Newsletter is published every even month by the Society of Philadelphia, PA 19107-5944 PAID Architectural Historians (2151735-0224). Deadline for submission Kansas City, Mo. of material: the 15th of the preceding even month. Permit No. 4085 President: Richard Betts I School of Architecture University of Illinois 608 East Lorado Taft Drive Champaign, I L 6 1820 Editor: Mary Lee Thompson Department of Art History Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY 10577 Mailing address 784 Columbus Ave. Apt. 5M New York, NY 10025 Assistant Editor: Charles Savage Landmarks Preservation Commission 225 Broadway St. , NY, NY 10007 Publications Editor: Judith Holliday Fine Arts Library, Sibley Dome, Corn.ell University Ithaca, NY 14853