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C!:,_c HIT E C T U R.tf"' t!. UJiullrf]li!il s ~ NEWSLETTER : IFIIIRmn1llJIA1S = THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS ~ rilliEiffiilliSlllffiS ~ .jO S · HMO · S U~ APRIL 1968 VOL. XII NO. 2 PUBLISHED SIX TIMES A YEAR BY THE SOC:IETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS 1700 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19103 HENRY A. MILLON, PRESIDENT EDITOR: JAMES C. MASSEY, 614 S. LEE STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22314. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: MARIAN CARD DONNELLY, 2175 OLIVE STREET, EUGENE, OREGON 97405 SAH NOTICES of buildings in La Jolla designed by Irving Gill and other 1968 Annual Tour. Don't forget the tour of Newport, architects. Rhode Island (and vicinity), August 29 - September 1. University of Virginia. Adolf K. Placzek, Columbia Uni Notices reached the membership by May 1. versity, spoke to the Chapter on "Gems Among Modern 1969 Annual Tour. The Society will hold the 1969 annual Architectural Books," at Charlottesville on March 8. tour in Richmond, Virginia, October 15-20, at the invita Washington. On April 11, at 4:30 p.m. Eric Entwhistle tion of The Latrobe Theatre, Mrs. Lewis H. Bosher, Jr., spoke to the Chapter at the Smithsonian Institution on President (see enclosed brochure). Mrs. Douglas P. "Wallpaper from the Great Exhibition to Art Nouveau." Rucker will serve as Chairman of the Local Committee, The program, originally scheduled for 8:30 p.m., was which will be composed of representatives of local changed at the last minute to 4:30 due to the early closing organizations interested in architectural history and of the Institution during the Washington riots. Kenneth preservation. Hudson, Bath University of Technology, was the speaker on April 29 in a program jointly sponsored with the Smith CHAPTERS sonian Institution's Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Mr. Hudson spoke on" Industrial 'Archeology: Chicago. In March the Chapter met in the Morton Audito Whose Responsibility, Whose Advantage." The meeting rium of the Art Institute of Chicago to hear Robert A. also served to open a joint SI·HABS industrial archaeology Kostka, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, speak exhibit at the Institution. The next program will be a tour on Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, as well as to the picturesque Virginia Quaker village of Waterford on the Japanese art which influenced Wright's design. The May 19, under the direction of W. Brown Morton III, Na April meeting was addressed by Barbara Wriston, Art tional Park Service. Institute of Chicago, on "Spanish and Portuguese .Influ ences in Latin American Architecture.'' Dues are $3 and Western Reserve Architectural Historians. On March 17, should be sent to Treasurer Robert Jorgensen, 555 Walnut Henry Hawley, Cleveland Museum of Art, spoke on "The Street, Winnetka, Illinois. Revolt Against Historicism, 1850-1910" to a Chapter meeting held at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Missouri Valley. The Chapter, on March 23, 1968, held its annual social meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Seligson, Kansas City, Mo., and slides were ORGANIZATIONS shown of the work of Richardson, Adler & Sullivan, Burn American Institute of Architects. The Institute's 1968 ham & Root, Holabird & Roche, and Frank Lloyd Wright. convention will be held in Portland, Oregon and Honolulu, New York. The New York Chapters' March 19 meeting was Hawaii, June 23-29, at which time Marcel Breuer will re devoted to a special panel program "Wright Redivivus: ceive the Institute's highest honor: its Gold Medal. Also The Buffalo Story." Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo work honored will be The Graham Foundation for Advanced was discussed by Edgar Tafel, Architect, and Mr. and Mrs. Eric Larrabee, New York State University at Buffalo, and Architect, respectively. Northern Pacific Coast. The Section held a meeting April 20 for the election of officers, and to discuss future plans for meetings. Prospective members should contact James R. Burch, 1531 Edith Street, Berkeley, Calif. 94703. Philadelphia. On April 26 James C. Massey, National Park Service, spoke to the Philadelphia Chapter in the Board Room of the PSFS Building on "American Architec tural Drawings and City Plans in Foreign Collections." On May 25 there will be an excursion to "Fallingwater," on Bear Run near Ohiopyle, Pa., by bus. The cost will be $15.05. Write Mrs. Guy Lacy Schiess, 3926 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 19129, for information. Southern California. New officers have been installed as follows: President, Crombie Taylor, University of Southern California; Vice President, Sim Bruce Richards, Architect, La Jolla; Secretary, Thomas R. Owen, Los Angeles Cen tral Library; and Treasurer, Esther McCoy, University of California at Los Angeles. The next Chapter meeting Henry Russell Hitchcock and Nikolaus Pevsner, at the will be an ali-day visit to La Jolla on May 18 to hear Smith College program arranged in honor of Professor papers on San Diego area architecture, and to take a tour Hitchcock's retirement in June. Studies in the Fine Arts which will receive the citation in Painting." Introductory remarks were made by the for an organization. Under the leadership of Charles F. distinguished architect Philip Johnson, who was asso Murphy and John D. Entenza, Hon. AlA, the Foundation ciated with Mr. Hitchcock in the pioneering days of the is devoted to the fostering of architecture and its allied modern movement in architecture ... Frank J. Schmidt is arts. The Institute has also announced that one of the the Director of the new Bureau of Historic Sites and first recipients of its new Critics Medal for architectural Properties of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum criticism has gone to SAH member Lewis Mumford. Commission, Harrisburg. He has been responsible for Columbia University. The University's Twentieth Annual the successful dismantling and re-erection of the Penn Bampton Lectures in America were given March 5-14 by sylvania-German Bertolett-Herbein log house at the Com Sir John Summerson on the general subject of "Victorian mission's Boone Farm in Berks County. The 1738 house Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation.'' The lectures is considered to be one of the most authentic Germanic were "The Evaluation of Victorian Architecture," "Two log houses to s urvive in Pennsylvania ... Myron Bement Victorian Railway Stations," "Two Victorian Churches," Smith has received a grant from The National Endowment and "A Victorian Competition." for the Humanities to complete his study of Persian arches, vaults, and cupolas and their relationships to Latrobe Theatre. Plans are being made by The Latrobe such features in other architectures. He has also been Theatre, a new Richmond, Virginia organization, to build named Visiting Distinguished Professor of History of the theatre designed for Richmond by Benjamin Henry Architecture by The Pennsylvania State University. He Latrobe in 1797. Though never erected, Latrobe's fine is in need of a Research Assistant in the history of drawings are at the Library of Congress, and would facili Persian architecture. Command of the typewriter and of tate its construction. Of interest is Brooks McNamara's at least one European language are mandatory. Write article, "The English Playhouse in Eighteenth Century P.O. Box 21141, Washington, D.C. 20009 ... Architect America," in The Connoisseur for December, 1967 pp. Paul Thiry of Seattle has been appointed to the U.S. 262-7. Several of Latrobe's drawings are reproduced in Post Office Department's Research and Engineering Virginia Cavalcade, Summer 1966; pp. 43-7. Advisory Council. SAH-Great Britain. The Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for the year's best British architectural history book has PUBLICATIONS been awarded to Mark Girouard for his Robert Smythson C/HE. The Centro de Investigaciones Hist6ricas y Esteti and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era. The volume cas of the Universidad Central de Venezuela issues an was published by Country Life in 1966. attractive and well-illustrated 142-page journal largely World Congress of Housing and Planning. The Congress devoted to architectural history. The Boletzn, of which will meet in Philadelphia, June 30 to July 6, with 1,500 eight numbers have appeared, is available in limited international planners, architects and scholars expected numbers and on exchange by request to Director Graziano to attend. SAH is a sponsoring organization of the Con Gasparini, CIHE, Universidad Central de Venezuela, gress and the program should be of particular interest to Caracas. SAH members concerned with Modern Architecture; for ICOMOS. The International Council of Monuments and information and registration contact P. Weinberg, Co Sites, sponsored by UNESCO, has issued the first number ordinator, 702 City Hall Annex, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. of its journal, Monumentum. The large and well-illustrated NEWS OF MEMBERS semi-annual international review is available at $12 Walter L. Creese, University of Oregon, has received an ($8 to members) annually. Send fees to Compte No. 46851, award from the Arne ~can Council of Learned Societies for Ste Generale De Banque Leunen, Belgium. John C. Free research in the' 'History of the Effect of American Govern man, University of Victoria, has been named General ment on the American Arts from Washington's Time," as Editor of the American Life Foundation's series on Clas an ACLS Fellow in Residence at the Smithsonian Institu sic Guide Books to the Visual Arts. To this end, the tion . .. Leonard K. Eaton, University of Michigan, will Foundation's National Committee on the Decorative Arts teach this summer at the University of Victoria in British has initially recommended the compilation of an annotated Columbia ... Richard H. Howland, since 1960 Chairman union catalogue of books published to 1915 on North of the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Civil His American architecture, landscape gardening and city tory, has been appointed Special Assistant to the Secre planning. In conjunction with this bibliography, a number tary of the Smithsonian Institution.