Newsletter the Society of Architectural Historians

VOL. XXXI NO.3 JUNE 1987

_ UTJ(JTAS RRmrms UEDUSIBS ~ NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS

SAH NOTICES tectural Historians, 1232 Pine Street, posium provides an annual forum for 1988 Annual Meeting-Chicago, Illinois Philadelphia, PA 19107-5944. the delivery of scholarly presentations and the exchange of ideas relating to all (April 13-17). Richard Betts, University 1989 Annual Meeting-Montreal, Can aspects of British Studies, including of Illinois, will serve as general chair ada (April 12-16). Slobodan CurCic, history, literature, art, government, ar man of the meeting. Wim de Wit, Chi Princeton University, will be general chitecture, and music. While the Sym cago Historical Society, will serve as chairman of the meeting. Phyllis Lam posium is regionally based in the local chairman. Honorary chairman is bert, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Southeast, participants are welcome Carl W. Condit. Headquarters for the will serve as local chairman. Headquar from all parts of the country. Anita meeting will be The Palmer House. ters for the meeting will be the Meridien Moss, Department of English, The Receptions are being planned for the Hotel. Palmer House, Chicago Historical Soci University of North Carolina at Char 1987 Domestic Tour, North Carolina lotte, Charlotte, N.C. 28223. ety, Graham Foundation, and Charn (October 20-25). Catherine Bishir will ley House. Architectural tours will in The International Committee of Ar be the leader of this tour. Cities to be chitectural Critics of the Union Inter clude the Loop, Oak Park, Du Page visited include Raleigh Durham County, and a two day tour will visit nationale des Architects was founded at Chapel Hill, Greensboro, a~d Winston~ their congress in Mexico in 1978 and sites along the Illinois and Michigan Salem. An add-on tour to Asheville will Canal. was inaugurated in Barcelona in 1979. also be offered. Announcements will It is a working group of architectural A list of all SAH sessions appeared in reach the membership in June. the April 1987 Newsletter, with the critics within the UIA and consists of names and addresses of the persons 1987 Foreign Tour, Portugal (July 12- approximately 60 elected members. who will chair them. Those wishing to 31). Stephanie Maloney, University of New members are elected at a general submit papers for the Chicago meeting Louisville, will be the leader of this tour. meeting every three years. The organi are reminded that proposals for papers Announcements were mailed to the zation is run by President Bruno Zevi of should be sent directly to persons chair membership and the tour has filled . A Italy, with directors Jorge Glusberg ing specific sessions, and papers for waiting list is being maintained. (Argentina), Julius Posener (Germany), open sessions should be sent directly to Dennis Sharp (England), and Pierre the SAH office at 1232 Pine Street, CONFERENCES Vago (France). The 1987 congress is Philadelphia, PA 19107-5944, before American Homes in Transition: 1890- being held in Brighton, England, July the deadline of September 14, 1987. 1930 is the theme for a two-day muse 13 -15, preceded by the first two week um conference Oct. 29-31, 1987, spon summer school sponsored by the Inter The Rosann Berry Annual Meeting Fel sored by the McFaddin-Ward House, national Committee of Architectural lowship. Awarded each year by the Beaumont, Texas. Ken Ames, Director Critics. For information on future plans SAH to enable a student engaged in of Advanced Studies, Winterthur Mu write The Director, CICA, c/o DSZ, 4 advanced graduate study to attend the seum, keynote speaker, will be joined All Saints Street, London N1 9RL. annual meeting of the Society. For the by Alan Gowans, Michael Tomlan, Please enclose a large stamped ad recipient, the Society will waive all fees Willard Robinson, Dianne Pilgrim, dressed envelope or international reply and charges connected with the meeting Ulysses Dietz, Karen Halttunen, Diane coupon. itself, and, in addition, will provide Douglas and Susan Williams in sessions The National Trust for Historic Pres reimbursement for travel, lodging and on architecture, interiors and patterns ervation will meet in Washington, D.C. meals directly related to the meeting, of home life. There will also be two from Oct. 7 to 11. up to a combined total of$500.00. To be antique forums. Registration for the eligible, an applicant must have been a conference, which is $60.00, includes The National Endowment for the member of SAH for at least one year three meals. A limited number of schol Humanities' 21st Annual Report is now available. It contains brief prior to the meeting, be currently en arships is available. For information descriptions of Endowment pro gaged in advanced graduate study and registration write Conference Co grams and grants for fiscal year (normally beyond the Master's level) ordinator, McFaddin-Ward House, 1986 (Oct. 1, 1985 through Sept. that involves some aspect of the history 1906 North St., Beaumont, Texas 77701 30, 1986). Single copies may be of architecture or of one of the fields or call (409) 832-1906. requested. NEH 1986 Annual Re closely allied to it, and apply for the The fourteenth annual Carolinas port, Room 409, 1100 Pennsylva Fellowship by using the application Symposium on British Studies will be nia, N .W., Washington, D.C. form that may be secured from the held at North Carolina State University 20506. Executive Director, Society of Archi- on October 24 and 25, 1987. The sym- GUlru Necipoglu-Kafadar, recipient of the William L. MacDonald, recipient of the Founders' Award for the best article ap Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award for the pearing in the JS AH during 1986 by a most distinguished work of scholarship in younger author, for her article Plans and the History of Architecture published by a Models in 15th- and 16th -Century Ottoman North American scholar during the year Architectural Practice. 1986, for The Architecture of the Roman Empire, Volume II, an Urban Appraisal.

Report of the SAH Annual Meeting Sheraton-Palace Hotel San Francisco, CA April24, 1987

The fortieth Annual Meeting of the of the constituency of the SAH should Annual Meeting. This scholarship, Society of Architectural Historians was be, Board members discussed the orga awarded competitively, was given this held at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in nization and content of SAH Annual year to Jacqueline Kestenbaum of Co San Francisco from April 22nd to the Meetings, the status of the Journal, and lumbia University, and President 26th. There were over 500 registrants, the need to poll the membership on all Overby introduced Ms. Kestenbaum to and under the able leadership of Dell discussed issues. It was agreed by the those present. Overby then introduced Upton as local chairman, the meeting Board that general Board discussion Dell Upton, local chairman, for the proved to be a very successful one. sessions are very worthwhile and should meeting, and expressed great apprecia be continued, as they provide a forum tion for the wonderful job Professor As well as a rich variety of sessions, for issues that would not be easily the meeting featured receptions in the Upton had done in organizing this presented in any other way. event. Overby also introduced and Garden Court of the Palace Hotel and thanked Camille Pello, Assistant to the at the Conservatory of Flowers in The 1987 SAH Annual Business Executive Secretary, and· Louisa Ni Golden Gate Park. After the reception Meeting was held at noon on Friday, at the Conservatory, participants were vard, who accompanied Camille from April 24th and herewith is the report of Philadelphia to assist her at the regis treated to a fascinating and beautifully that meeting: illustrated talk on the history of San tration desk, for their invaluable part in the organization and operation of the Francisco given by Stephen Tobriner at Presidential Announcements. Presi meeting. the De Young Museum. The special dent Overby began the meeting by tours which were offered to participants reporting, with great sadness, the death Architectural History Foundation An on Saturday and Sunday were well of Henry Russell Hitchcock on Febru nouncement. David DeLong, on behalf received. ary 19th. Overby indicated that appro of the Architectural History Founda priate notice would be published in the tion, announced that the Foundation The SAH Board of Directors met on Journal, and that contributions were has initiated a prize for book projects the first day of the conference, not only being received in the SAH office for a relating to the Architectural History for their usual meeting, but also for a fund to endow the Hitchcock Award. Foundation's American Monograph special discussion session in order to Overby then outlined the details of the Series. Up to three annual research examine some of the long-range issues Rosann Berry Annual Meeting Schol grants ($1 ,000-$1 ,500 each) will be of the Society. As well as a debate on arship, which enables the SAH to bring awarded, and the Foundation hopes, in what the preferred goals and character a student of architectural history to the this way, to encourage a broader 2 knowledge of American architecture. to report that the Portugal tour had Architectural History Foundation. The Those interested should write to Victo filled within a week of the mailing, and $10,000 award is given to enable the ria Newhouse, Architectural History that plans for the 1988 Piedmont Tour candidate to prepare complete disserta Foundation, 350 Madison Avenue, were progressing well. tion for book publication. The editors of New York, NY 10017. Second Vice-President's Report. Slo the Architectural History Foundation Journal Editor's Report. Before intro bodan CurCic reported on the planning have chosen Christopher Mead of the ducing outgoing Journal Editor Elisa progress of the 1989 (Montreal) and University of New Mexico as this year's beth MacDougall, President Overby 1990 (Boston) Annual Meetings, and recipient of the Kress Publication F el indicated that the SAH Board had, at indicated that the brochure for the 1987 lowship for his work on "Charles Gar their meeting on Wednesday, adopted a Domestic Tour to North Carolina nier's Paris Opera and the Renaissance resolution thanking Editor MacDougall would soon be mailed. of Classicism in Nineteenth-century for the splendid work she had done. Secretary's Report. Catherine Bishir French Architecture." The Architectur Those present reaffirmed the senti reported on the Chapter Delegates' al History Foundation will be soliciting ments of the Board by giving Editor meeting that had just taken place, and other candidates for the Fellowship this MacDougall a warm round of applause. was pleased to report that progress had fall. MacDougall then presented her final been made in devising ways to heighten Antoinette Forrester Downing Award. report, outlining technical problems communication amongst the 28 President Overby briefly reviewed the and editorial matters which were re Chapters as well as between the Local guidelines for the Annual SAH Award solved during her three year term. With Chapters and the SAH office. for Excellence in Published Architec a list of recommendations for the future Executive Secretary's Report. David tural Surveys, and then, with great and an expression of gratitude to all Bahlman reported that total SAH pleasure, introduced Antoinette Down who had helped her during her term as membership was now at 3,858, an in ing, for whom this award is named, in Journal Editor, Editor MacDougall crease of 250 from April of last year. A honor of her promotion of local inven completed her report. President Overby brief report on the acquisition and ren tories and surveys and recognizing the then introduced incoming Journal Edi ovation of the Pine Street house fol excellence of her work in this area. tor Tod Marder, and Professor Marder lowed, and Bahlman indicated that of Michael Tomlan, Chairman of the spoke briefly about his intentions to fice operations were running very Downing Award Committee, an maintain the quality ofthelournal, and smoothly as a result of the new quarters. nounced the first winner of this new also his enthusiasm about receiving ar Buildings of the United States. Adolf award, the Rhode Island Historical ticles on a wide range of subjects. Placzek, Editor-in-Chief, gave an up Preservation Commission for its most Newsletter Editor's Report. Mary Lee date on the project, and announced recent survey report, Providence, A City Thompson, in a report read by Presi with great pleasure that sizeable grants wide Survey of Historic Resources, the dent Overby, regretted that she was for the project had been received from forty-second in a series of town-wide unable to attend the meeting, and indi the Pew Foundation and the Graham and neighborhood surveys conducted cated that although she is working on Foundation, providing more than a in Rhode Island by the Commissions ways for the Newsletter to provide bet complete match for the NEH grant. since its establishment in 1968. In mak ter service to wider audience, the prob Placzek also reported that Polly Math ing the award to the Rhode Island lem of limited space remains, as well as erly has been hired as Director of De Historical Preservation Commission the difficulty of timing material re velopment for the BUS project, and and to co-authors William McKenzie ceived to the publication schedule. that funding solicitations on a state to Woodward and Edward F. Sanderson, Treasurer's Report. President Overby state basis are underway. the SAH recognizes the significant con presented the Treasurer's Report for Committee Reports. Richard Long tribution that this survey publication Carter Page, who was unable to attend streth, Chairman of the Preservation makes to the understanding of the city's the meeting. The current financial Committee, and Dora Wiebenson, built environment, and noted the status of the SAH is very healthy, with Chairman of the Education Committee, book's high standards of research and an 18.7% increase in 1986 operating reported on the activities of their re analysis, as well as the high quality of its revenues and a $10,000 decline in pro spective committees. design. Mrs. Downing herself presented gram expenses for the same year. As a Amendments to the Bylaws. The the award to co-author William result, the net operating surplus grew Board of Directors, meeting in Phila McKenzie Woodward. from a 1985 surplus of $2,877 to a 1986 delphia on October 11, 1986, voted to Founders' Award. Robert Brueg surplus of $58,559. The total asset value recommend to the SAH membership mann, Chairman of the Founders' of the Society grew by 126% to almost five amendments to the Bylaws of the Award Committee, announced that the $400,000; the two major changes to the Society, as set forth in the annual meet winner of the Founders' Award for the balance sheet were the increase in cash ing brochure which were mailed to all best article appearing in the JSAH dur balances as a result of the operating members. President Overby called for a ing 1986 by a younger au thor is Giilru surplus and the acquisition of the Pine motion to approve the recommended Necipoglu-Kafadar, for her article Street house. amendments. MOVED. SECONDED. " Plans and Models in 15th- and 16th First Vice-President's Report. Rich PASSED. Century Ottoman Architectural Prac ard Betts thanked all those who had The Kress Publication Fellowship. tice," published in the September, 1986 worked so hard in putting together the Adolf Placzek, on behalf of the Direc issue of the Journal. Honorable men 1987 Annual Meeting, and proceeded tors of the Architectural History Foun tions were also given to Elizabeth to report on plans for the 1988 Annual dation, announced its first award in a Grossman for her article "Two Postwar Meeting in Chicago. As far as SAH three-year pilot project between the Competitions: The Nebraska State tours are concerned, Betts was pleased Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Capitol and the Kansas City Liberty

3 Memorial" (JSAH, September 1986), Bronx, N.Y. 10458. Deadline for a one tieton, Colorado 80123. We request that and fo J. David McGee for his article page double spaced abstract is July 15. proposals be explicitly tied to the theme "The Early Vaults of Saint-Etienne at (Note that papers on architecture are of the meeting and consider how histo Beauvais" (JSAH, March 1986). particularly desired and for the conve rians and others preserve and interpret Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award. nience of SAH members the deadline our past. Marian Donnelly, Chairman of the was extended from May 1.) Speakers Victorian Belief and Unbelief will be Hitchcock Book Award Committee, an will receive honoraria and papers will the topic of the Twelfth Annual Meet nounced that the winner of the Alice be published by the Istitu to. The orga ing of the Midwest Victorian Studies Davis Hitchcock Book Award for the nizing committee includes John I.H. Association, to be held at Indiana Uni most distinguished work of scholarship Baur, Director, Emeritus, Whitney Mu versity-Bloomington on April 29-30, by a North American scholar during the seum of American Art; Milton W. 1988. The Association welcomes pro year 1986 is William L. MacDonald, for Brown, Professor of Art History posals dealing with established religion The Architecture of the Roman Empire, CUNY; William H. Gerdts, Professor and the challenges or alternatives to it; Volume 11, an Urban Appraisal, pub of Art History, CUNY; John K. Howat, sacred music, art, and architecture; and lished by Yale University Press. Chair Chairman, Department of American the general nature of spiritual and man Donnelly introduced Mr. Mac Art Metropolitan Museum; Lillian B. moral commitment in Victorian Britain.

Donald, and presented him with the Miller, Historian of American Culture, Eight- to ten-page papers or two-page · ~ award. Honorable mention was also National Portrait Gallery; Barbara abstracts should be sent no later than I given to Franz Schulze for his Mies van Novak, Professor of Art History, Bar November 5, 1987 to Kristine Ottesen der Rohe: A Critical Biography (Uni nard College and Columbia University. Garrigan, MVSA Executive Secretary, versity of Chicago Press, 1985). The University of Arkansas will host Department of English, DePaul Uni Elections. President Overby re the 1988 meeting of the South Central versity, 802 West Belden, Chicago, IL viewed the report of the Nominating Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 60614. Committee as printed in the Annual on the Fayetteville Campus, March 10- The Graham Foundation for Ad Meeting brochure, and called on Secre 12, 1988. The meeting will focus on the vanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the tary Bishir to preside over the election. visual and performing arts. Topics for College of Environmental Design at the Secretary Bishir indicated that 23 prox papers on art and/or architecture University of California, Berkeley, are ies had been received, and that there should be sent to C. M . Smart, Jr., sponsoring an International Sympo had not been additional nominations Dean, School of Architecture, Fay sium to be held at the University of by member petition. Nominations were etteville, AR 72701 . California, Berkeley, on Traditional as follows : Osmund Overby, President; The Program Committee of the Na Dwellings and Settlements in a Com Richard Betts, First Vice-President; tional Council on Public History re parative Perspective. The study of tra Slobodan Curcic, Second Vice-Presi quests proposals for sessions at its an ditional dwelling environments has dent; Catherine Bishir, Secretary, nual meeting in Denver, Colorado, been of interest to scholars from dif Carter Page, Treasurer; Directors Jer March 3-6, 1988. We encourage inno ferent disciplines. Although valuable rilynn Dodds, Frances Fergusson, Eliz vative indisciplinary and non-tradition work has been done by many, lack of abeth Grossman, Richard Ingersoll, Ian al proposals for sessions, workshops, communication between researchers M. G. Quimby, J. E. Robinson III, papers, etc. The theme of the annual working on similar subjects is apparent. Michael Tomlan. A motion to elect the meeting will be: Our Nation's Heritage: Bringing together specialists from dif slate of five officers and seven board Preserving and Interpreting America's ferent disciplines, cultures, and regions members was presented, seconded and Past. This theme includes many issues to discuss the form of traditional dwell passed. Overby sincerely thanked out such as archives, libraries, cultural re ing environments in a cross-cultural going board members for their hard sources management, museums, teach perspective is the prime purpose of this work, welcomed new members to the ing, film, management, politics and Symposium. Scholars in the field of Board, and adjourned the meeting. policy, and interpretation. There will be architecture, art history, anthropology, 32 sessions of l Y2 hours length. We cultural geography, folklore, urban de Respectfully submitted encourage proposals for individual pre sign, and other related fields are invited David Bahlman sentations and complete sessions, but to submit papers that may contribute to Executive Director the committee reserves the right to sug the general theme of the symposium. gest changes and alterations in com Traditional dwellings and settlements CALL FOR PAPERS plete sessions. The committee will also are the result of the collaboration of The Istituto della Enciclopedia Ital have a meeting room for up to 20 many people over many generations. iana in association with Fordham Uni persons available for ad hoc meetings, They do not only represent the necessity versity will sponsor a symposium on presentations, etc., in order of receipt of for shelter but are also a reflection of Italian Influences in American Art 1760- requests. Deadlines: For session pro larger societal structures, including cus 1860, Friday-Saturday, Nov. 20-21 , posals-September 10, 1987; for sched toms, myth and cosmology. For the 1987 at Fordham University at Lincoln uling the ad hoc meeting room purposes of this symposium, the terms Center, New York City. You are invited November 15, 1987. The committee will vernacular, folk, popular and indige to submit your abstract on any aspect of respond to proposals by the end of nous are all acceptable alternative de this question (painting, sculpture, ar December. Address proposals and re scriptions for traditional dwellings and chitecture, decorative arts, aesthetics/ quests for the ad hoc meeting room to: settlements. Interested Colleagues are art theory, art patronage, taste) to Pro Brit Storey, Co-Chair, Program Com invited to submit a short abstract of 500 fessor Irma B. Jaffe, Art and Music mittee, National Council on Public words indicating paper theme and ex Department, Fordham University, History, 7264 West Otero Avenue, Lit- pected conclusions, by August 1, 1987.

4 BOOKS AND ARTICLES AleHandre-Th~odore Bronqniart 1739-1813 : architecture et decor : Musee Carnavalet 22 avril-13 juillet 1986. Paris: Musees de la Ville de Paris, 1986. 315 p. F180. ISBN 2-901414-20-6 ~rchitects ' drawings from the collection of Barbara Pine. Evanston, IL: Mary a~d Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern Univ., 1987 . 48 p. $16.00. ISBN 0-941680-05-3 Bach, Ira J. and Susan liolfson. Chicaqo__ .J2!Ll.QQ!:. : walkillfL tours of Chicago's architecture. 4th ed. Chicago: Chicago Review Pre::.;s , 1987. 450 p. $14.95 ISBN 0-914091-94-8 Belli Barsali, Isa. !Jille e giardini del carannorese. Lucca: Pacini Fazzi, 1986. 59 p. (Conoscere Capannori; 1) 110000 Boidi Sassone, Adriani. Uille~~~ntesi : interni e deoorazioni del KUIII e XIX secolo. Cune~: L'Arciere, 1986. 127 p. (Il Bagatto) 140000 Braunfels, Wolfgang. Francois Cuvillies : der Baumeister der qalanten Architektur des Rokoko. Munich: Suddeutscher Verlag, 1986_ 223 p. DM98. ISBN 3-7991-6257-7 Brooks, Michael. John Ruskin and Victorian architectU~§. New BrunsNick: Rutgers Univ . Press, 1987. 364 p. $29.95 ISBN 0- 8135-1205-0 Brown, Jane. Lannin~oper and his gardens. New York: Rizzoli , 1987 . 224 p. $35.00. ISBN 0-8478 -0787 -8 Brunk, Thomas W. Leonard B. Willeke. excellence in architecture and design. Detroit: Univ_ of Detroit Press, 1986. 241 p. ISBN 0-911550 -00-3 ~ildinq a borough: architecture &_pjanning in the Brame 1890-191Q: May 2-November 23, 1986. Bronx, N.Y.: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1986. 122 p. ISBN 0-917535-09-R c,elik, Zeynep. The remaking of Istanbul : portrait of an Ottoman city in the. ni{1eteenth centurv. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1986. 183 p. (Publications on the Near F..ast, Univ. of Washington; no. 2) $25.00. ISBN 0-295-96364-6 Clifton-Taylor, iilec. Alec Clifton-Taylor 's buildings of delight. London: Gollancz, 1986. 257 p. il12.95. ISBN 0-575- 03701 -6 CUnliffe, Barry. The city of Bath. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1937. 186 p. $22.50. ISBN 0-300-03808-9 De Seta, Cesare. Luoghi e architettur~r~rdute. Rome: Laterza, 1986. 278 p. L42000. ISBN 88 -420-27777-4 Dumargay, Jacques. The temples of Java. Singapore: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986. 100 p. (OHford paperbacks) ~4.95. ISBN 0- 19--582595-0 Edward Larabee Barnes museum desi~: March 22-May 24, 1987, The Katonah Gallery. Katonah, N.Y.: The Katonah Gallery, 1987. 32 p. $10.00. ISBN 0-915171-07-4 Eichler, Inge. Ki:instler llereins Hauser : soziale Voraussetzungen , BaiJ9:~.§chichte und Architektur. Frankfurt: Gesellschaft zur F'orderung arbeitsorientierter Forschung und Bildung, 1986. 86 p. DM59. ISBN 3-925070-49-4 Fenwick, Hubert. Scottish baronial houses. London: Robert Hale, 1986. 253 p . .ftl2.95. ISBN 0-7090-2581·-5 Figurative architecture : the work of five Dublin archit?cts : Rachae_l Ch1dlow, Paul K§gh, Sheila O'Donnell, John Tu()mey and Derek Tynen. London: Architectural Association, 1986. 48 p. (Architectural lissociation catalogues) t4.50. ISBN 0-904503-69-0 Fletcher, Banister. Sir Ba~ister Fletcher's A history of architectur~ . London: Butterworth 's, 1987_ 1621 p. ~8.00. ISBN 0-408-10587-X nFrank Lloyd Wright's contribution to Wenatchee's riverfront park" The Confluence (North Central Washington Museulll) 3/2 1986 pp. 92-94 franz Prati : segrete armonie di citd. Rome: Kappa , 1986. 109 p. (Progettojdettaglio; 12) 118000 Gasparini, Graziano and Luise Margolies. llrguitectura popular _g!i Venezuela. Caracas: Fundacion Eugenio Mendoza, 1986. 311 p. ISBN 980-6017-04-8 Geraniotis, Roula Mouroudellis. "Gerll\an architectural theory and practice in Chicago, 1850-1900" Winterthur Portfolio vol. 21 no. 4 iiinter 1986 pp. 293-306 Grataloup, Dantel. Pour une nouvelle architecture : architecture-sculpture, architecture modulaire. Paris: Biblioth€que des Arts, 1986. 145 p. F240 . ISBN 2-85047·-072 -4 Groenendijk, Paul and Piet Uollard . Gids voor moderne architectuur in Nederland = Guide to modern architecture in the Netherlands. Rotterdam: Uitgeverij, 1987. 303 p. $31.50. ISBN 90-6450·-0.29-0 Guidoni, Enrico and Giulia .Petrucci. kaprarola {Uiterbo}. Rome: Multigrafica, 1986. 53 p. (litlante storico delle ci tta italiane. I.azio; 1) 140000. ISBN 88 -7597-039 -4 Hamm, Michael F. The city in late imperial Russia. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1986. 372 p. (Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies) ISBN 0-253-31370-8 HaNley, Henry. "An italianate garden by Greene and Greene'' The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts SUllllRer/Fall 1986 pp. 32-45 Heinze-Muhleib, Ita. Erich Mendelsohn. Bauten und Proiekte in Palastina (1934-1941). Munich: Scaneg, 1986. 381 p. {Beitrage zur Kunstwissenschaft; vol. 7) DM68.70. ISBN 3-9800671-7-3 Hillman, Judy. The rebirth of Covent Garden : a place for peoole . London: Greater London Council, 1986. 56 p. ·M.50. ISBN 0-7168-1577 -l{ Hochreiter, Otto. Int Zeichen des Janus : Portale, 'fiiren und Tore in der Architekturfotografie 1840-1980 : AusstellunqskatalQg . . . Vienna: flriadne-Buch-und Musikverlag, 1986. 165 p. ISBN 3-85414-005-3 5 In den Tempeln der Badelust : Architektur der Sinnhchkeit I Photographie Gerhard P. Muller, Essay Joseph von Westphalen. Munich: Bucher, 1986. 119 p. DM48. ISBN 3-7658-·0497-5 Kalia, Raui. Chandigarh : in search of an identity:. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1987. 201 p. $22.50. ISBN 0-8093-1310-3 Khansari, Mehdi and Minouch Yauari. Espa.Q?__®man : architectur~ traditiolJ..~le en Iran = Traditional architecture in Iran. Liege: Pierre Mardaga, 1986. 125 p. ISBN 2-87009-249-0 !\nevitt, Charles, ed . ~erspectives : an anthology of 100~ .9J.Chitectural guota_tions. L-ondon: Lund Humphri.es, 1986. 159 p. -117.95. ISBN 0-85331-511-6 Kroll, Lucien. The architecture of complexity. Cambridge, !'Ill: IHT Press, 1987. 124 p. $8. 95. Trans. of ~omposant~. ISBN 0-262-61047-7 Loughlin, Caroline and catherine Anderson. Fot~t Park. Columbia: The Junior League of St. Louis and Univ. of Missouri Press, 1986. 304 p. $29.95. ISBN 0-8262-0605-0 l1arshall, John and Ian WilloR. The Victorian house. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986. 176 p. M2.95. ISBN 0·-283-99363-4 Medri, Litta, et al. La villa di Poqgio a Caiano. Florence: Becocci, 1986. 31 p. (Biblioteca de '' Lo Studiolo") 16000 Menocal, Narcisco G. "Frank Lloyd Wright and the question of style" The___ ,Jgurnal Qf Decorative and Propaganda Arts Summer/Fall 1986 pp. 4-19 Mullenbrock, Heinz-Joachim. Der enqlische Langschaftsgarten des 18. Jahrhunderts und sein literarischer KonteKt. GDttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986. 25 p. (Ueroffentlichung der Joachim-Jungius---Ge"'.:>Ellschaft der Hissenschaft Hamburg; Nr. 54) DM9.80. ISBN 3-525-86219-9 Olmo, Carlo, ed. J\J.do Rossi: ~tl..Ltli..M9hite!j;ura 196£.:.1985. Milan:Mazzotta,l986. li3 p. 135000. ISBN 88--202-0647-1 Passant, Raymond. Banli~ue de banlieue! Paris: Editions Ramsay, 1986. 321 p. F145 p. ISBN 2-85956·-518 -3 Pierson, William H. ''Richard Upjohn and the American Rundbogenstil'' Winterthur Portfolio voL 21 no . 4. Winter 1986 pp. 223- 242 ,, Pizzarello, Ugo. Guit:j_a alla dtta di Venezia : l_a lu~_jlacgua. 'Jol. 1 : Dorsodu,ro, Giudeca. Venice: L'Altra Riva, 1986. 1 vol. 1140000. ISBN 88-7662-015-X Quantrill. Malcolm. The environmental memory : man and architecture in the landscape of ideas. NeH York: Schocken Books, 1987. 214 p. $19.95. ISBN 0-8052-4016-0 Roberts, Warren E. "German American log buildings of Duboj.s County, Indiana" [interth_ur Portfolio uol. 21 no. 4 Winter 1986 pp. 265-274 Safdie, Moshe. The Harvard Jerusalem Studio : urban designs for the Holy City. Cambridge, Mil: MIT Press, 1986. 326 p. $30.00. ISBN 0-262-19247-0 Savarese, Silvana. francesco Grimaldi e l'architettura della controriforma a N9.P.Qli. Rome: Officina, 1986. 214 p. 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6 The organizers also welcome proposals City and Regional Planning History through educational programs for high for workshops and exhibits. Submitted and the City and Regional Planning school and college students and general material should be accompanied by a Department of The Ohio State Univer audiences. brief Curriculum Vitae of the contribu sity. Address correspondence to The The NEH Division of Fellowships torls. Authors with accepted abstracts Society for American City and Region and Seminars supports individual will be asked to submit full-length al Planning History, 3655 Darbyshire scholarship within the humanities and papers of 20 double-spaced pages in Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43220- 1416. provides opportunities for the collegial cluding diagrams, photographs, and study of topics and texts. All programs drawings by November I, 1987. As a FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS of the division welcome applications to result of a peer review process, papers The Columbian Quincentenary, the conduct projects related to the Colum may be accepted for publication and/or SOOth anniversary of Christopher Co bian Quincentenary. presentation only. Contributors are also lumbus's first voyage of discovery to the A scholar wishing to explore a topic encouraged to submit copies of books, New World, will be observed interna in early Latin American colonial history published papers, photographs or tionally in 1992. This occasion affords or a researcher describing the effect of drawings of Traditional Dwelling Envi an opportunity for encouraging schol the discovery of the New World upon a ronments for display at the Symposium arly and public consideration of a great particular artistic or literary tradition Exhibit. 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College as President, Donald Krueck preters of the humanities. Some of these The Columbia Society of Fellows in eberg of Rutgers as Vice President, and questions will be broad, involving new the Humanities, with grants from the Laurence C. Gerckens of Ohio State as interpretations and syntheses of exist Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Secretary-Treasurer, with Marc Weiss ing research. Others will be more fo William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a of the University of Illinois at Chicago, cused, involving new basic research in number of post-doctoral fellows in the David Reed of the University of Wis such fields as history; archaeology; an humanities for the academic year 1988- consin at Milwaukee, Robert Cornish of thropology; art history; literature; phi 1989. The appointment carries with it Texas A & M, and Francois-Auguste de losophy; the history of science and the expectation of renewal for a second Montequin of the University of Geor technology; religious studies; and year. 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The Second National Conference on inviting proposals for original scholar Deadline for receipt of completed American Planning History, will be held ship on related topics and for the dis application forms is October 15 , 1987. at The Great Southern Fireproof Hotel semination of new and existing scholar The National Humanities Center sup (and Opera House) in Columbus, Ohio, ship through conferences; public ports advanced study in history, litera 25-26 September, I 987 with the co lectures; exhibitions; television, radio, ture, philosophy, and all other fields of sponsorship of the Society for American and motion picture productions; and the humanities. Each year Center

7 awards 35-40 fellowships to scholars of Friday, June 19, Mann is expected to POSITION/architectural history and theory. demonstrated achievement and to share his views on image making, style, Part-ti me /full-time. A one year position with promising young scholars (several years design, and' architecture. As executive possibility of extension beginning September beyond the doctorate). Fellows pursue producer of Miami Vice, Mann has 1987. Teaching duties will include two semes their own research and writing in resi turned architecture into prime-time ter survey of architectural history (Ancient dence at the Center. Most fellowships television's hottest commodity, captur through 1850) and two possible additional are f<;>r the academic year (September ing the public imagination as few other courses. Area of specialization open. Ph.D. through May), though a few may be image makers in recent history. The preferred , but ABO possible. Prior teaching awarded for the fall or spring semester. detective series often features dazzling experience desirable. Minimum salary Scholars from any nation may apply for architectural settings- from sleek Art $9,000 .00 /semester . Application deadline July fellowships. Fellowship stipends are Deco neon clubs to posh waterfront 15, 1987. EOE/ AA. Apply (w ith letter of appli cation stating interests, vitae, and names of based, insofar as possible, on scholars' homes. The Florida South Chapter/ three references) to: Margaret Crawford , usual academic salaries. Fellows who AlA frequently works with Miami Vice Southern California Institute of Architecture have partial funding in the form of location scouts to assist in selecting sites (SCI-ARC), 1800 Berkeley Street, Santa Moni sabbatical salaries or grants from other or buildings that might be filmed for the ca, CA 90404. sources normally receive from the show. Center the difference between that The University of Miami has com • Bozeman, Montana 59717. Montana State funding and their usual salaries. Fel missioned Italian architect Aldo Rossi University, School of Architecture. FULL-TIME lows and their families receive travel to design a new School of Architecture FACULTY POSITION , beginning September 1, expenses to and from the Center. complex. This design project is the ar 1987. Candidate will be expected to teach Deadline and Application Proce chitect's first in the United States. Rossi History of Architecture survey courses (3 dures. For application material write to is familiar with the University of Miami quarters), Introduction to American Architec Kent Mullikin, Assistant Director, Na campus and the University's plans for tural History and elective architectural history courses. Position may be either a one-year tional Humanities Center, 7 Alexander the future. He served as a juror in the appointment or tenure-track. Ph.D , M, Arch. or Drive, Research Triangle Park, North University of Miami's 1986 Campus equivalent required; teaching experience pre Carolina 27709. Applicants submit the Master Plan Com petition. According to ferred, Assistant or Associate Professor. AA/ Center's form , supported by a curricu School of Architecture Dean J. Thomas EOE. Apply (w ith resume and three references) lum vitae, a 1000-word project proposal, Regan, "There is a tradition of great to: Robert C. Utzinger, Director, School of and three letters of recommendation. American universities commissioning Architecture , Montana State University, Boze Applications must be postmarked by the first U.S. project of important Euro man , MT 59717. October 15, 1987. pean architects." OF NOTE SAH PLACEMENT BUSINESS • Washington , DC 20560. Cooper -Hewitt Mu Michael Mann, who has brought ar SERVICE BULLETIN~' seum, Smithsonian Institution. DIRECTOR. As chitecture and design to the attention of '' Dot indicates first listing. Deadline for submission of material to an international center for the study and millions of Americans each week interpretive display of the arts of design, the through the popular television series the Placement Service Bulletin is the 15th of the preceding even-numbered Museum supports scholarly research, col Miami Vice, will open The American lections, exhibitions and educational activities Institute of Architects' 1987 National month. Contact the SAH office in Phila delphia for full information about the which explore the processes and products of Convention in Orlando, June 19-22. categories and conditions for inclusion historical and contemporary design. Salary: The Emmy Award-winning writer/ in the listings. $72,500 p.a. Application deadline July 17, director has helped shape Miami's 1987. EOE. Send inquiries and applications to: image as perceived by America's pub POSITIONS AVAILABLE Beverly Lang, Secretary to the Search Com lic-just as architects try to stimulate ACADEMIC mittee, Smithsonian Institution, Room Sl-302 , similar kinds of images. In his address • Santa Monica , California 90404. Southern 1000 Jefferson Drive , SW, Washington, DC at the convention's formal opening on California Institute of Architecture. FACULTY 20560.

JUNE 1987 VOL. XXXI NO.3 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 (215/735-0224). Deadline for submission Kansas City, Mo. of material: the 15th of the preceding even month. Permit No. 4085 President: Osmund Overby Department of Art History & Archaeology University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 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 20 Vesey St., NY, NY 10007 Publications Editor: Judith Holliday Fine Arts Library, Sibley Dome, Cornell University Ithaca, NY !4853