NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS DECEMBER 1983 VOL. XXVII NO.6 SAH NOTICES attend the 33rd annual course of the school (July 9-27, 1984 Annual Meeting-Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 25- 1984). The course begins in Shropshire with visits to the 29). Carol H. Krinsky, New York University, is serving as great houses of Derbyshire. There will be private excursions general chairman of the meeting. Eileen Michels, College of to Chatsworth, Petworth, Uppark Goodwood, Brighton, St. Thomas and Tom Martinson of Ellerbe and Associates, Chichester and Clandon. Inc. are working on the meeting as local co-chairmen. Headquarters for the meeting will be the AmFac Hotel. The SAH members may obtain applications and information by Preliminary Program will be sent to all members shortly writing Helen Hamilton, Executive Secretary, American after the holidays. Members abroad who wish to have the Friends of Attingham Summer School, Inc., 126 Jefferson program sent airmail should notify the SAH office as soon as Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. possible. Special Note for SAH Members. The 333 page Temples of Note: The SAH has available (see current publications list), Democracy-The State Capitols of the USA, by Henry-Rus­ A Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota by David Gebhard sell Hitchcock and William Seale will be sent to you as a gift and Tom Martinson for $12.45. when you upgrade your membership category. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner said of this book: "Capitols are an American 1985 Annual Meeting-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 17- building type. They deserved a book to themselves and Messrs. Hitchcock and Seale have done them proud . the 21). Osmund Overby, of the University of Missouri, will be general chairman of the meeting. Serving as local co-chair­ result is eminently readable and at the same time instructive men will be Franklin K. Toker, University of Pittsburgh and and illuminating." Notify the SAH office of your member­ Richard L. Cleary, Carnegie Mellon University. ship category changes and a copy of Temples of Democracy will be sent immediately. 1984 Domestic 1 our-Northern Michigan (August 15-19). Architectural History Update. The Society of Architectural Kathryn B. Eckert, Michigan History Division, is finalizing Historians is updating its Guide to Graduate Degree Pro­ plans for the tour. Announcements will reach the member­ grams in Architectural History, and would like information ship early in the new year. on any programs not included in the 1982 Guide. If you are To enable an outstanding student to participate in this part of, or know of a graduate program not included in the tour, the Society will hold a competition for student 1982 Guide, please write to the SAH office, Suite 716, 1700 scholarships. A surcharge on non-student participants' Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. registrations will be applied toward such tour scholarships, which will defray wholly or in large part the cost of the tour itself, hotel accommodations and air or train fare. SAH 1984 DOMESTIC TOUR To be eligible, a student must be engaged in graduate NORTHERN MICHIGAN work in architecture or architectural history, city planning AUGUST 15-19 or urban history, landscape or the history of landscape Kathryn B. Eckert of the Michigan History Division of design. Qualified students- who must be SAH members­ the Michigan Department of State, assisted by Phil Porter should write the SAH office (1700 Walnut Street, Suite 716, of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, will lead Philadelphia, PA 19103) for an application. Completed the tour to the Traverse Bay Region, Mackinac Island, and applications, with required vitae and a minimum of two Sault Ste. Marie. The tour will begin in Traverse City (with departmental recommendations, should be returned to the a trip to Interlochen Center for the Arts); and proceed to SAH office by March I, 1984. Mackinac Island for a three-night stay at the Grand Hotel, stopping en route at Charlevoix and Bay View. One of the 1984 Foreign Tour-Mexico (June 15-July 4). Leader of the three days on the island will include a day-long trip from the tour will be Edward Sullivan, New York University. In island to Sault Ste. Marie. On the final day, the tour will order to obtain reduced air fares dates have been changed return to Traverse City. to those above. Plans for this tour are being finalized, and Featured on the tour will be two forts built by the French should reach the membership around the holidays. and later occupied by the British, resort architecture, industrial and engineering structures, and regional vernac­ American Friends of Attingham Summer School-1984 ular architecture set amidst the scenic beauty of northern Scholarship. The American Friends of Attingham will Michigan in its finest season of the year. Participants will award a scholarship to a member of the national SAH to visit Fort Mackinac and Fort Michilimackinac at the Straits of Mackinac, fanciful cottages at the Bay View Methodist Camp Meeting grounds, elegant summer houses at Charle­ voix and Mackinac Island, the Sault locks around the rapids of the St. Mary's River which opened shipping between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes, and the Michi­ gan Lake Superior Power Company's plant and canal at Sault Ste. Marie. Since the tour will take place during northern Michigan's peak season, those expecting to travel to and from Traverse City by air should make plane reservations as soon as possible. SCHOOLS AND CONFERENCES Dum barton Oaks announces the II th annual Sympo­ sium on the History of Gardens, organized by Wilhelmina Jashemski, to take place May 11-13, 1984. The theme of the symposium is Villa Gardens in the Roman Empire. Contact: VGRE, 1984 Symposium, Garden Library, Dumbarton Oaks, I 703 32nd St., NW, Washington, DC 20007. Applications are being accepted for the 1985 annual courses offered by the International Centre for Conservation (ICCROM) in Rome, where professionals have the unique opportunity to study Architectural Conservation, Conserva­ tion Science, and Mural Painting Conservation at one of the foremost preservations institutions in the world. These Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in his Bloomsbury Square Office, June 1971. courses are not open to beginners. Contact Wanda C. Photo: Donie/ D. Reiff Szczepanski, US!ICOMOS, 1600 H Street, NW, Washing­ ton, DC 20006. A few scholarships are available. Deadline is SIR NIKOLAUS PEVSNER January 15 , 1984. The Society notes with deep regret the passing of Sir Teaching the Middle Ages, a conference for teachers at Nikolaus Pevsner last August. Prime mover in the founding the elementary, secondary and college level who are inter­ of the Victorian Society and author of numerous books, he ested in presenting medieval topics in the classroom will be also edited the Pelican History of Art series and was not held on April 6-7, 1984, in Emporia, Kansas. Papers are only the editor, but also the principal author of the invited on any aspect of medieval studies and will be limited 46-volume Penguin survey of The Buildings of England. His to 20 minutes. Submit a 300 word summary of the proposed incisive intellect and lucid prose will be deeply missed. paper by Jan. 2, 1984 to Dr. Judy G. Hample, Dean, College of LAS, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801. began Oct. 14, will continue through Jan. 20, 1984 at the Architecture Library at the University of Texas at Austin. MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS Russel Wright, American Designer, is a retrospective of Twenty-Five Years of Discovery at Sardis, on view at the the populist designer's furniture, fabrics and tableware Fogg Museum until Jan. 8, 1984, is an exhibition consisting designs that helped to introduce American informality to of photographs, casts, ceramics, coins and scientific sam pies, the modern home. The exhibition, which began November the fruits of a quarter-century of excavation and research by 4 at the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of affiliates of Harvard and Cornell Universities. Displayed in American Art, Smithsonian Institution, will close on March this traveling exhibition are examples of major discoveries 4, 1984. Also at the Renwick Gallery through Jan. 15, 1984 ranging from the early Bronze Age to the early Byzantine Lafayette Square 1963-1983: Historic Preservation and period, including the remains of the largest known ancient Modern Architecture. Celebrating the preservation of La­ synagogue. Following its exhibition at the Fogg, the exhibi­ fayette Square's unique residential quality, the exhibit tion will travel to Cornell University (Winter, 1984), the traces the 18th and 19th century history of the area, to Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago (Spring, preservation efforts by Pres. Kennedy which led to passage 1984), the University of California, Berkeley (Fall, 1984), of the Historic Preservation Act of I 968. and other locations around the country. The National Academy of Design of New York City has The evolution of a unique New Mexico furniture style is opened an exhibition Bertram Goodhue (1869-1924) which traced in an exhibit at the Museum of New Mexico's will continue through December 31. A monograph, pub­ Museum oflnternational Folk Art in Santa Fe. Carpinteros lished by the Architectural History Foundation, will ac­ and Carpenters: New Mexico Furniture 1600-1900 will be company the exhibition. shown through mid-April, 1984 and then travel to Las Organized by the Oberlin Art Department's Exhibition Cruces, Albuquerque and Colorado Springs. Seminar Students in conjunction with Oberlin's susquicen­ The Non-Residential Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, tennial is the exhibit Building Utopia: Oberlin Architecture an exhibit opening Dec. 5, will be on display at the Harvard 1833-1983. With support from the Ohio Arts Council, the University Graduate School of Design until Jan. I, 1984.