SESAH NEWSLETTER
Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume 22 Number 3 Summer 2005
PRESIDENT’S LETTER
Dear Fellow SESAH Members,
Greetings from the Valley of Virginia where summer finally seems to have arrived. School is out, grades are done and our attention turns now to the October Meeting in Fort Worth. As you know from our previous newsletter, Jay Henry, the organizer of that meeting, died tragically in a freak accident this spring, but his colleagues in Texas, especially, his dean, Don Gatzke, and your SESAH officers have taken over the planning and we think we have a great meeting in store. Jay had worked out the general plan, we are just filling in the details. Elsewhere in this newsletter you will see the schedule and registration information as well as the list of sessions and papers. One glance is going to be enough to tell you that this will be a fascinating meeting. We have fifty-five papers in eighteen sessions on topics that range from the ancient to the modern and methodologies that look at both high style and vernacular. We have tours of Fort Worth and Dallas that focus on contemporary building and include such architectural stars as Edward Larrabee Barnes, Renzo Piano, Phillip Johnson, Tadao Ando, and Louis Kahn as well as some very interesting local people. We also have a special keynote speaker, Prof. Sarah Goldhagen of Harvard, author of Louis Kahn’s Situated Modernism who will be speaking at the Kimbell Art Museum, one of Kahn’s great buildings. So plan to join us for an exciting meeting.
Note the deadline for sending in your registration is September 12, 2005 and that the registration form and your check goes to Rob Craig our SESAH treasurer. He also asks me to remind you that many of you are used to paying your annual dues when you send in your registration, so remember to do that and add the dues to your registration check. That will save him from having to send you a notice later this summer.
Thank you to all of you who sent in such wonderful paper proposals and to all of you who have volunteered to chair the sessions. This is going to be a great meeting where we can honor Jay’s memory by bringing to fulfillment the dream he had of showing us, his SESAH friends, his beloved Texas architecture. So join us in Fort Worth this next October!
Sincerely, Pamela H. Simpson Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia 24450 E-Mail: [email protected]
SESAH 2005 ANNUAL MEETING IN FORT WORTH, TX Oct. 12 - 15, 2005
The institutional sponsor of the Annual Meeting is the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Arlington. The location will be the Fort Worth Plaza Hotel, on the edge of downtown adjacent to the Water Garden. Convention room rate is $79 per night plus 15% tax, single or double occupancy. The telephone number is 817-335- 7000. Downtown Fort Worth is a remarkable walking environment with numerous restaurants and entertainment venues. A self-guided walking tour will be provided in registration packets. Fort Worth is readily available from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, a major transportation hub, with access by taxi or shared ride shuttle. Registration fee will be $100 ($50 for students), with an additional $50 add on fee for the Saturday tours to Dallas. Deadline for registration is Sept. 12, 2005; any received after that date will require an additional $10 late fee.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Afternoon Registration opens in Fort Worth Plaza Hotel Self-guided walking tours of downtown Fort Worth Evening SESAH Board Meeting
Thursday, October 13, 2005
7:30 am Registration opens in Fort Worth Plaza Hotel 8:30 am - 12:00 noon Concurrent paper sessions with break 12:00 noon SESAH Luncheon and Business Meeting 1:30 - 5:00 pm Concurrent paper sessions with break Evening free in downtown Fort Worth
Friday, October 14, 2005
8:30 am to 12:00 noon Concurrent paper sessions with break Noon - 1:30 pm Luncheon on your own 2:00 pm Busses depart for museum quarter 2:30 - 6:00 pm Self-guided, individual visits to Kimbell Art Museum (Louis I. Kahn); Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (Phillip Johnson); Fort Worth Modern Art Museum (Tadao Ando) 6:00 pm Keynote Lecture at the Darnell Auditorium of the Kimbell Art Museum: Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Harvard University, author of Louis Kahn’s Situated Modernism 8:00 pm Busses return to Fort Worth Plaza Hotel
Saturday, October 15, 2005
8:30 am - 6:00 pm Bus Tours to Dallas, terminating at the Arts District with visits to Dallas Museum of Art (Edward Larrabee Barnes) and the Nasher Sculpture Garden (Renzo Piano) 6:00 pm Busses return to Fort Worth Plaza Hotel
The registration form is on page 19 of this newsletter.
2 PAPER SESSION SCHEDULE All sessions at Fort Worth Plaza Hotel
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Session I 8:30-10:00 am
A. Texas Architecture Chair, Gerald Moorhead, Bailey Architects, Houston Michelangelo Sabatino Harvard University, “Charles Moore, Texas, and the Vernacular” Nora Laos, University of Houston, “Bauhaus Ideology Interpreted through a Texan Filter: The Inflected Modernism of O’Neil Ford in Denton and San Antonio” Joel Bama, Trost and Trost, “The Wide-Ranging Work and Styles of the El Paso Firm Trost & Trost” Gerald Moorhead, Bailey Architects, Houston, TX, “Organizing Texas: Building A Team for Buildings of Texas”
B. Renaissance/Baroque Chair, David Gobel , Savannah College of Art and Design Pauline Morin, Cornell University, “Horse Stories from Ferrara” Julia Smyth-Pinney, University of Kentucky, “Getting Paid: Borromini’s Role in Billing Disputes at the Palazzo della Sapienza” John Alexander, Ph.D., Texas A & M University, “The Managerial Component of Borromeo's Early Patronage”
C. Tourism, Historic Sites, and Cultural Meaning in Preservation Chair, Marilyn Casto, Virginia Tech Eduard Fuehr, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, “From Williamsburg, Virginia to Colonial Williamsburg: A second reconstruction of the South” Ann Buckun, University of Texas at Austin, “Cook County Hospital: Memory, Meaning and, Museum Potential” Nancy J. Volkman, Texas A&M University, “The ‘Garden of Allah’ and the Development of the Modern Theme Park”
Session II 10:30-12:00
A. Frank Lloyd Wright Chair, Paul Kruty, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lahib Jaddo, Texas Tech University, “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kinney house, Amarillo, Texas” Morgan Harrison, Savannah College of Art and Design, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the American Bungalow” Paul Kruty, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Picturing The Prairie School”
B. Hispanic Traditions Chair, Philippe Oszuscik, University of South Alabama, Mobile Jon Thompson, University of Texas, San Antonio, “A Study of the Geometry of the Arched Entry of Mission Espada” Paul Niell, University of New Mexico, “Nineteenth-century Cuban ‘Criollismo' and Architectural Transformations of the Plaza de Armas in Havana” Stephen Fox, Anchorage Foundation of Texas, “Architecture and Identity on the Lower Río Grande/Río Bravo del Norte Border”
C. Turn-of-the-Century Europe Chair, Mikesch Muecke, Iowa State University David Matiella, The University of Texas at San Antonio, “The Investigation of Gaudi’s Visionary Structural Theory and Intent and its Relation to the System of Tensegrity” Michael Kleeman, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Forward Thinking Versus Remembrance in the Formation of the Paris Metro” Craig Anz, Southern Illinois University School of Architecture, “Friedrich Ohmann’s Vienna Stadtpark (1898- 1907): Contextural Transformation of the Urban Fabric” 3 Session III 1:30-3:00 p. m
A. The Architecture of Education Chair, Rob Craig, Georgia Tech Denis R. McNamara, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, “National and Religious Identity at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois” Emily Koller, The University of St. Thomas, “Tom Town: Military Barracks and Starter Homes on the Postwar American Campus” Rebekah Dobrasko, “From ‘Revival’ to ‘Revolution’: South Carolina’s School Equalization Campaign, 1951- 1955”
B. Southern Modernism, Part I Chair, Carol Flores, Ball State University Jeffrey M. Jensen, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Three Post Offices in Atlanta: National Statements in a Localized Context” James Ramsey, Memphis College of Art, “Memphis' First Modern” Margaret Obear Calhoon, Georgia Power Corporate Archives, “Powering Georgia: Construction of Tallulah Falls Dam and Hydoelectric Plant”
C. Slavery to Civil Rights: Sites of Memory Chair, Michael Fazio, Mississippi State University Michael Strutt, Middle Tennessee State University, “Historical Concepts and Slave Housing in Tennessee: An Architectural Survey Across the Volunteer State” Kenneth Hafertepe, Baylor University, “Urban Slave Space in Antebellum Texas” Michael Fazio, Mississippi State University, “The Setting for Civil Rights”
Session IV 3:30 to 5:00
A. Southern Modernism, Part II Chair, David Lewis, Mississippi State University Susan R. Braden, Assistant Professor of Art History, “Auburn, Alabama - From ‘Loveliest Village of the Plain’ to City of Villages” Gretta Tritch, University of Arkansas Libraries, “A Master of Detail: Archiving the Work of E. Fay Jones” Lee E. Gray, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, “Even the Sidewalks are Big in Texas”
B. Exteriors and Interiors, New Approaches to Historical Analysis Chair, Julia Smyth-Pinney, University of Kentucky Kim S. Sexton, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “From Sloth to Leisure: Framing Recreation in Late Medieval Urban Space” Marietta Monaghan, Matthew Swarts, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, “The Villa Capra is a Musical Box” Charissa N. Terranova, Southern Methodist University, “Myths of Miasma: French Film and Modern Housing on the Fringe”
C. Churches and Libraries, 19th and 20th c. Southern Architecture Chair, Travis McDonald, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest John M. Schnorrenberg, University of Alabama at Birmingham, “Six Churches of Central Memphis, Tennessee, 1843-1893” Robbie D. Jones, The Hermitage, “What’s in a Name? Tennessee’s Carnegie Libraries and Civic Reform in the New South, 1889-1919” Pamela H. Simpson, Washington and Lee University, “Lexington, Virginia’s Franklin Society (1811-1891), A Library as an Index to a Community”
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Friday, October 14, 2005
Session V 8:30-10:00
A. African American Architects and Architecture Chair, Ellen Weiss, Tulane University Alfred Willis, Hampton University, “Moses Proposes; Cheek Makes Chic” M. Ruth Little, Longleaf Historic Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina, “The Other Side of the Tracks: The Middle- Class Neighborhoods That Jim Crow Built in Early 20th Century North Carolina” Daves Rossell, Savannah College of Art and Design, “‘This Here’s the North Pole’: Florence S. Gibson and the World She Gave Us”
B. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Europe Chair, Julia King, Fredericksburg, Va. Nina Lewallen , Auburn University, “Architectural and Social Transgression at the Hôtel de Matignon” Carol A. Hrvol Flores, Ball State University, “Representation and Analysis: Owen Jones’s Study of the Alhambra” Robert M. Craig, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, “The Stained Glass Debate: Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, and Charles Winston”
C. Mid-Century Modernism Chair, David Sachs, Kansas State University John Poros, Mississippi State University, “Liturgy and Symbol: Marcel Breuer’s Abbey Church of St. John’s” Catherine W. Zipf, Salve Regina University, “Modernism Meets Feminism: Chloethiel Woodard Smith and the Architecture of Southwest Washington, D.C.” Elizabeth Meredith Dowling, Georgia Institute of Technology, “When History is All the Education You'll Get”
Session VI 10:30-12:00
A. Technology and Culture Chair, Kim Sexton, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Nima Kasraie, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, “Qazvin; A Case Study of Urban Water Supplying Methods of Ancient Persia” Rhonda T. Dunn, “The Holy Light: Faith, Light and Building Technology - The Hagia Sophia and the Great Mosque of Cordoba” Kevin Stevens, Louisiana Tech University, “Cataclysm and Catastrophe: Urban and Social Planning Responses to Natural Disasters”
B. Louis Kahn Chair, Stephen James, University of Virginia J.Scott Finn, Auburn University, “Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter Academy” Irene E. Ayad, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, “Louis Kahn's Space Frame Architecture Reconsidered” Stephen James, University of Virginia, “Treasuries For Art: Louis Kahn and the Houston Projects”
C. Grocery Stores to Truckstops, Vernacular Approaches to the Built Environment Chair, Clifton Ellis, Texas Tech University Lisa Tolbert, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “The New Hangout of the Women: Self Service and the Re-Invention of the Southern Grocery Store in the Early Twentieth Century” Marilyn Casto, Virginia Tech, “Origins of DIY: Amateur Creators” Ethel Goodstein, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “The Sacred Space on the Side of the Road”
5 SESAH CONFERENCE 2004
SESAH Tennessee Bus Tour, Saturday, October 30, 2004 (Dandridge, Greeneville, Tusculum College, Jonesborough,Rogersville)
On October 30, 2004, an unseasonably warm and district and enjoy sporting activities on Douglas Lake. foggy Saturday morning, thirty-two of us boarded our Bob Jarnagin – a preservationist, historian, and local bus in Knoxville for what proved to be a splendid day businessman – met us at Shephard’s Inn (c.1829- touring the Tennessee countryside and visiting four 1900), one of four inns still standing in Dandridge. linear-plan court-house towns and Tusculum College. He told us that David (never Davey among Tennessee During the morning the sun burned through the haze, historians) Crockett married at the inn in 1806 and and for the rest of the day, the Tennessee landscape that Andrew Jackson was a frequent guest. Bob glowed with the reds, oranges, and yellows of autumn pointed out the linear layout of Dandridge (in contrast as we visited Dandridge, Greeneville, Tusculum, to the more familiar Southern concept of a courthouse Jonesborough, and Rogersville. At every stop, guides square) and explained that Dandridge lay along the and historians informed us about local architecture, route of the Great Stage Road, which stretched from town planning, and preservation projects. Our Virginia through Knoxville and later connected comprehensive itinerary of attractive towns and Washington, DC with New Orleans. Pointing to the historical buildings reflected the thoughtful planning late Georgian building across the street from of Marian Moffett, and the excellence of the trip and Shephard’s Inn, Bob explained that recently the the day was a fitting tribute to her. structure served as the Dandridge City Hall, but that originally it functioned as the Hickman Tavern and At 7:45AM Barbara Klinkhammer and Robbie Jones inn (Hickman brothers, 1845, although Bob said the greeted us as we boarded the bus; they handed out date is probably earlier). We were interested to learn bottled water, power bars, and Robbie’s informative, that when the Tennessee Valley Authority’s plans to well-illustrated packets of information about the five build a dam on the French Broad River called for sites we planned to visit. We settled into our seats as inundating Dandridge, the town’s citizens asked the sun, huge and the color of Volunteer-orange, rose Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt to intervene and save through the fog, gradually revealing the mountains in the town. In 1942 President Roosevelt signed an the distance. executive order that preserved Dandridge and led to the construction of the huge earthen berm that looms behind the buildings along Dandridge’s main thoroughfare. As we listened, we could hear the sound of motorboats on the lake above us on the other side of the green, grassy dam. Bob pointed out the locations of several historical buildings, including the other two inns, an old-fashioned general store (in the Federal-style Vance Building of 1820, a commercial structure that Bob purchased to save from destruction), then he led a group on a tour of the Greek Revival-influenced Jefferson County courthouse (1840-45, Hickman Brothers). Before boarding the bus, the mayor invited us to look at the spiral staircase in the City Hall.
Dandridge Courthouse – drawn by Jeremy Shipp Our next stop was Greeneville, county seat of Greene County, an important agricultural area in the state and At precisely 9:00 AM, we drove into Dandridge, a county where many of the tobacco farms have been named for Martha Dandridge Washington. One of the in the same family for two hundred years. Founded in oldest towns in Tennessee, Dandridge first was 1783, Greene County served as headquarters for the settled in 1783 and today is the county seat of State of Franklin movement (1784-1789). As we Jefferson County. The town (population 2,205) is drove through the town, we saw lampposts decorated popular with tourists who visit the local historic with cornstalks, a reminder of the town’s connections 6 to the outlying farming areas and also a reminder of Professor Collins presented us with copies of a rare harvest and Hallowe’en. Even on a Saturday, the photograph of a residence said to have been designed downtown had a bustling, festive air about it. Robbie by Sullivan. Before boarding the bus, we looked at a told us that Greeneville was one of his favorite towns, particularly handsome building nearby that is being and that we would make a quick stop even though expanded by the local firm of Fisher and Associates – Marian had cautioned him against it. He wanted to the Tate Library, originally Carnegie Hall (1910-11), show us the new James H. Quillen United States a Prairie style structure, perhaps the work of Patton Federal Courthouse (1998-2001, KMW), so we and Miller of Chicago. walked through the downtown area, past the General Morgan Inn (originally the Hotel Brumley, 1884) and At Jonesborough, the oldest town in Tennessee, we the Carnegie-funded Greene County Public Library stopped for lunch at the Story Telling Center (2002), with its Women’s Restroom (1914-15, Aaron T. a building designed by Robert A. M. Stern and Simmons of Indiana). The library’s “Restroom” located on the town’s one main street. We ate our box provided a meeting and relaxing place for women lunches scattered in groups in the garden with its from the agricultural areas who were in town on scenic views of picturesque Jonesborough and in business or to shop. Other highlights of our quick groups indoors at the Story Telling Center. After walk through Greeneville included the Gothic lunch, accompanied by one of several local guides or Revival St. James Episcopal Church (1848-50, alone, we strolled along Jonesborough’s main artery George Spencer of New York). looking at antique shops, visiting a lovingly restored Greek revival home whose owners invited us in, Just outside Greeneville, we stopped at Tusculum poking into the rooms at the renovated Eureka Hotel, College, a four-year, private school that dates to as and admiring the Greek Revival Presbyterian Church early as 1794. Tusculum College is the oldest college (1845-57, W.H. Clyce). The present Washington in Tennessee and the 28th oldest college in the County Courthouse in Jonesborough was designed in country. The campus sits on 140 acres and includes a 1913 by the Knoxville firm of Baumann and recently renovated building designed by Louis Baumann; it occupies the site of the county’s original Sullivan. Almost 2,000 students attend Tusculum 1779 courthouse. Jonesborough’s lively, bustling College, named for Cicero’s villa and the president of downtown is witness to the successful preservation Princeton University’s home. George Collins, movement of the town, headed by Dr. Bill Kennedy, director of the Doak House Museum and director of who welcomed us when we first arrived. museum studies at Tusculum, met us in front of the red brick Doak House (1818, built by the Reverend Although we arrived at Rogersville, our fourth linear Samuel Doak and his son), which housed the plan courthouse town, late in the afternoon, we had Tusculum Academy in 1830-41. Led by Professor time to visit the Hale Springs Inn (Federal style, Collins, we walked the wagon road from the Doak 1824-25 by John Dameron; enlarged in 1875), view house up a hill and through the woods to Old College the Hawkins County Courthouse (1835-36, 1929), (1841, modeled on Princeton University’s Nassau stroll the main street, and pose for a group Hall of 1758). Professor Collins explained to us the photograph. Our informative guide in Rogersville importance of republican Rome’s ideals to the was the local historian Henry Price. founders of Tusculum College. As we stood under trees at the top of the hill near the entry to the college, On our way back to Knoxville, we had time to reflect Professor Collins pointed out Louis Sullivan’s on the splendid scenery, the orderliness of the four Virginia Hall, commissioned by Nettie McCormick towns, and the venerable architectural heritage of and completed in 1901 for the sum of $16,000.00 Tennessee. No doubt everyone also appreciated the Sullivan’s brick building, which features gables and a expertise of all who participated in preplanning, classical entry porch, originally contained classrooms organizing, and guiding our trip on that fine, fall day. for the women’s domestic science program, a dining hall, women’s gymnasium and art studios; today the Susan Braden structure houses the visitor’s center. As a surprise,
SESAH Tour of downtown churches, Friday, October 29 2004
It was a well-timed break on the second day of the walk to four elegant Protestant churches built during conference. William Rudd led us on a much-needed Knoxville’s boomdays in the early twentieth century. 7 At the Church Street United Methodist and First complexes. It was a refreshing tour with a brisk walk Baptist churches the organists regaled us by playing in the fresh air, too-brief organ concerts and churches well-known organ solos and once or twice they made designed to reflect denominational principles. Then, the organs ‘roll’ to demonstrate the excellent with renewed interest, we returned to the final acoustics of the buildings. Parishioners took us on sessions of the conference. guided tours of the considerable establishments and described the development of the well-finished Daphne Hobson
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORICISM VI
Why do many of us prefer to live in old indulgence of the kids; and a new outdoor “living houses? Beyond historical and architectural history room” on the patio. Living in one of these houses values, what leads us to live in and preserve would surely bring the fun and happiness seen on “previously owned” old houses? Only in the recent television or in the consumer ads—it could be seen past has the appeal of old houses rivaled new ones. through the new picture window as neighbors cruised This is usually explained in terms of quality materials by in their shiny new car. While new boundaries of and rich details. Do we anticipate any social or moral privacy were set in bedrooms and bathrooms for values inherent in what the old house used to be? For parents and kids, the other family spaces stressed that matter, what do we expect in the way of family togetherness through self-indulgence and increasing and social values associated with our new houses? contemporary comfort. What will our house, old or new, do for us? Does a Since the 1970s a new form of traditional difference in values lead us to live in old houses? eclecticism has emerged in the still spreading suburbs By the beginning of the twentieth century the at the same time that the Preservation Movement “home” value of certain new “house” types equalled a urged us to recycle “historic” houses. Yet these new religious zeal. Your new Queen Anne in the forms of suburban “homes” seem devoid of a spreading near-by suburbs not only exhibited your progressive spirit. What will the new house do for personalized artistic sanctuary but your family you and your family morally or socially? The benefited from the latest comforts and hygiene, developer and the realtor promise bigger lot sizes, promising a stronger moral and Christian foundation enormous kitchens and bathrooms, more security, and for society. Newer Twentieth Century styles endorsed greater privacy. The aging baby boomers now by the Progressive Movement advocated simpler, influence designs that tout “ease of use,” efficient, more economical, neater and natural living “convenience,” “safety,” “added value,” “less for your family. Your Four Square, Bungalow, maintenance,” and “universal design.” Absent is any Colonial Revival, and “small modern” traditional kind of moral and progressive social values style house enhanced society as never before. The previously associated with the family home and the California Bungalow came with its own plain, simple American Dream. This is not to say that new and natural virtues, providing a youthful, informal “houses” do not still reflect contemporary “home” and healthy lifestyle and was especially suited as a social values—they certainly do. We just can’t see family’s first home. what our current values will say about us in the The post-war boom of the 1950s burst forth future. Do we love old houses for their original with an all-American lifestyle as other California optimistic associations conveyed upon their first styles swept the country: the Ranch and Split Level owners or is it simply an aesthetic desire for the old? house. While the public might still prefer a good The American Family Home is still central to middle- Cape Cod, these new styles spread far and wide like a class dreams of comfort, security, self-determination national tide because developers knew what the and independence. But do you ever wonder what our public needed. New lifestyles emphasized new types grandchildren will see when our own generation’s of social space: a less formal kitchen/dining room new houses become the old houses of the future? Will where guests shared space with the new colored ours merit the same kind of preservation aesthetic? appliances; basement recreational space for the Travis McDonald
8 CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS
ARLIS/UK & Ireland - 31st Annual Conference session or abstract of paper (for review by Program Rough Diamonds: polishing partnerships with Committee and use in conference brochure) Email creative industries submission is preferred. Please send the information 7-9 July 2005, Lakeside Centre, Aston University, requested above as an attachment to Peggy Appleman Birmingham at margaret.appleman @dc.gov http://www.arlis.org.uk/conf/arlis2005/index.html International Congress on Construction History 35th Annual Conference of the British Society for 29 March-2 April 2006, Queens’ College, University Eighteenth Century Studies of Cambridge, UK 4-6 January 2006, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK Call for papers for the Second Congress to be held at We invite proposals for papers and also panels of Queens’ College, University of Cambridge and three/four papers on any aspect of the long 18th hosted by the Construction History Society. century worldwide. Such proposals might relate, inter Abstracts of 300-600 words are sought for papers on alia, to architecture, art, curatorship, history, any topics relating to any aspect of the history of international relations, literature, music, politics, building construction, for example: *Structural science, society, teaching practice and the eighteenth analysis and the development of structural forms; century outside Western Europe and North America. *History of the building trades; *Organisation of Please submit a 200-word abstract of the proposed construction work; *Wages and the Economics of paper or panel (including names of panel-speakers construction; *Building Regulations; *Trade unions and summaries of panel papers) via the BSECS and Guilds; *Development of construction tools etc; website at http://www.bsecs.org.uk. Papers should be *Building techniques in response to their 20 minutes long, read in English or French. environments; *Building materials, their history, Presentations in other languages are acceptable so production and use; *History of services in buildings; long as English or French transcripts are available for *The changing role of the professions in construction; the audience. The deadline for submission of papers *Building Archaeology; *Computer simulation, and panel proposals is 30 September 2005. experimentation and reconstruction; *Use of Programme Co-Ordinator: Dr. Matthew Grenby construction history for dating of historic fabric; ([email protected]). Conference *Recording, Preservation and Conservation; registration deadline: 12 November 2005. Venue *Construction in architectural writing; *The role of Organiser: Dr. Chris Mounsey ([email protected]). construction history in education; *The bibliography Registration form and further information about of construction history. All accepted papers (which BSECS from our website (http://www.bsecs.org.uk). will be 4-6000 words) will be published and available at the conference. The writers will be asked to give 32nd Annual Washington, D.C. Historical Studies short 15 minute summaries of their papers. All papers Conference and abstracts must be in English, but delegates may November 4-5, 2005, Martin Luther King, Jr. present at the conference in English, French, Italian Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW, Washington or Spanish. The Washington, DC Historical Studies Conference Papers to be submitted by post to: Malcolm Dunkeld, is a unique opportunity for a wide range of Chair Organising Committee, Construction History participants to deepen their knowledge of the history Society, 147 Leslie Road, London, N2 8BH, UK or of the city and the surrounding region. The Program by e-mail to: [email protected]. Committee is calling for papers and presentations on All information: Congress web site: www.chs- a wide variety of topics of local history interest, cambridge.co.uk including art and media, historic preservation, and architecture. Presenters will give a 20-minute paper ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO within a specific 90-minute conference session led by 7-10 October, 2005, Fort Lauderdale, Florida a panel moderator. For each paper or session http://www.asla.org/meetings/am2005/ proposal, please provide the following: *Title *Session participants (identify moderator) or author "Landscape Leading the Way" 42nd IFLA World of paper, including name, title and affiliation, all Congress. addresses, phone number *100 word description of 26-29 June, 2005, Edinburgh UK 9 http://www.ifla.net/ 14th Conference of the Women’s History Network: Women, Art and Culture: Historical Faces and Places of Early America: An Perspectives Interdisciplinary Conference on Art and the September 2nd- 4th 2005, Southampton Institute, Sir World of Objects James Matthews Conference Centre, Southampton, 1-3 December 2005, McNeil Center for Early Hants. American Studies, University of Pennsylvania Plenary Speakers: Frances Borzello, Janice Helland This conference will explore the ways material and Marina Vaizey. Speakers, papers and a objects embody early American culture and provide provisional programme will soon be posted at opportunities for richer analysis of historical www.womenshistorynetwork.org. conference2005@ questions by combining history, art and architectural womenshistory network.org history, material culture studies, and other disciplines. We especially seek papers that are interdisciplinary in Art and the City: A Conference on Postwar nature. There will be site visits as well as the paper Interactions with the Urban Realm sessions. Proposals for individual papers should be 11-12 May 2006, Amsterdam postmarked by June 15. Proposals (in triplicate) for The cities of Europe and the US cities continue to 20-minute papers should include a 1-2 page generate and project a unique identity. These prospectus and a short cv. Organizers: Margaretta M. developments have brought economic and social Lovell, University of California, Berkeley and change and also significant cultural transformations, George W. Boudreau, Penn State Capital College which have found their reflection in the visual arts, Please send proposals to: Faces and Places in Early literature, film and music. The physical city and its America, The McNeil Center for Early American mental spaces have proven a fertile breeding ground Studies University of Pennsylvania 3619 Locust for art in general. The products of this interaction, as Walk, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213 well as its precise mechanisms, are the subject of this conference. In addition to papers examining the Journal of Research Practice (JRP) “imaging” of the city in diverse media, we are also DP Dash, PhD, Xavier Institute of Management, seeking papers on the following: use of the material Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar 751013, India objects and aspects of the city; communication and Email: [email protected] interaction with the city’s inhabitants; fetishization of Homepage: http://www.ximb.ac.in/~dpdash/ the urban realm; utopias and/or heterotopias; A diverse group of academics, students, and research- transformative and performative practices in the inclined professionals have come together to launch public sphere; the artist’s “civic” body; the urban this new peer-reviewed electronic journal, thus unconscious and/or repressed, etc. Central to all these supplementing various initiatives to build research themes should be the artistic interaction with the city capacities around the world with other researchers as a physical entity and a mental space. The without the restrictions imposed by formal committee is also interested in papers that discuss the disciplinary boundaries. The inaugural issue of the challenges this research object poses on current Journal of Research Practice: Innovations and historical and analytical research methods. Abstracts Challenges in Multiple Domains (JRP) is available at of no more than 200 words, accompanied by a brief http://jrp.icaap.org/ in an Open Access mode (full- biography (70 words maximum) should be sent to: text access is freely available to all). The journal [email protected] - Subject line: Art and the City seeks to connect researchers working in different Conference by: 1 September 2005. Organizing disciplinary, institutional, and practical contexts and Committee: Rachel Esner, Margiet Schavemaker and to extend the practice of research to progressively Esther Cleven, Instituut voor Cultuur en newer territories. It is also hoped to promote research Geschiedenis, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, education around the world and innovative forms of Universiteit van Amterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB research in different socially relevant areas. JRP is Amsterdam. [email protected]. www.hum.uva.nl/ich published by the International Consortium for the Advancement in Academic Publication, ICAAP, ICOMOS 15th General Assembly and Scientific which is a research and development organisation Symposium devoted to the advancement of electronic scholarly 17-21 October, 2005. Xi’an, China. communication. ICAAP is located at Athabasca
10 Toilet Papers: The Gendered Construction of General enquiries about the proposed book can be Public Toilets addressed to: Jan K. Birksted The Bartlett School of Call for traditional academic papers of no more than Architecture University College London 22 Gordon 7000 words (including footnotes) for the edited Street London, WC1H 0QB [email protected] collection: Toilet Papers: The Gendered Construction This call for papers is particularly for Section 3, of Public Toilets. Editors: Olga Gershenson “Looking at Modern Landscapes”. Proposals for (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Barbara Section 3 should be sent by 30 June 2005 to: Penner (University College-London) Christopher S. Wilson, Lecturer, Department of We welcome papers which explore the cultural Architecture, Faculty of Fine Art and Design, Izmir meanings, histories, and ideologies of the public toilet University of Economics, Izmir, TURKEY as a gendered space. practices and act as a cultural [email protected] repository for taboos and fantasies. We also welcome the submissions of design and art projects that expose Third International Conference on the Arts and the gendered nature of the ‘functional’ toilet spaces Crafts Movement The Role of the Arts & Crafts in and objects. Contact: Gershenson
RIBA Annual Conference and CPD Roadshow: The Eighth Conference of the European Urbanism - The Principles of Placemaking: Association for Urban History 30 June - 2 July, explore@Bristol, Bristol, UK 30 August- 2 September, 2006 Stockholm, Attendees will discover how the Government, clients http://www.historia.su.se/urbanhistory/eauh/index.ht and key design bodies are developing the subject of m. For session descriptions go to: urbanism. Through interactive workshops and real http://www.historia.su.se/urbanhistory/eauh/sessions. life design activities you will learn just how urbanism htm. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October is done. http: //www.architecture.com/fileLibrary/pdf/ 1, 2005. RIBA_CONF_2005_05-05.pdf NH&RA 2005 Aspen Summer Institute "A TIME for PLACE." Council of Educators in 10-14 August, 2005, Given Institute, Aspen, Landscape Architecture Colorado Annual conference, September 21-24, 2005, Athens, Call For Presentations. Please forward your GA see: http://www.uga.edu/cela2005/cela2005.htm> suggestions to Thom Amdur at NH&RA. http://www.uga.edu/cela2005/cela2005.htm. www.housingonline.com
The Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth- National Housing & Rehabilitation Association is Century Europe and North America pleased to announce the finalists for the 1st 13 December, 2005, German Historical Institute, Annual J. Timothy Anderson Awards for Washington, DC. Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation. The “Timmy Awards” were created to honor Past Perfected: Antiquity and its Reinventions outstanding historic rehabilitation projects. The 6-8 April, 2006, Los Angeles, CA finalists are. Best Rehab Housing: Adelaide Avenue The National Committee for the History of Art Neighborhood Revitalization, Providence, RI; Hotel solicits 250-word proposals for 25-minute papers. Stockton, Sacramento, CA; Midway Studios, Deadline for submission of proposals: 15 September Cambridge, MA; Yale Building, Chicago, IL. Best 2005. For further information, please email Historic Rehab: Market-Rate or Mixed-Income
Architectural Training and Research Initiative Slideshows Architect Rafael Vinoly has launched a scholarship Recent postings on the picture-sharing site FLICKR scheme: tuition-free master classes and fellowship feature buildings in Singapore, Nanjing, Tuscany, research grants of up to $60,000. Applications are due Iran... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/architecture/ July 1, 2005. Click on link below for additional information.
Virginia Le Corbusier A new Art Museum, to be designed by Randall Stout More than 40 years after its conception, Le Architects. http://www.artmuseumroanoke.org/ Corbusier’s church of Saint-Pierre de Firminy has future/the_future.html been topped out. ‘No major design by a celebrated modern architect has ever been completed decades Washington, DC after its commission.’ http://www.iht.com/ 15 articles/2005/05/11/features/corbu.php www.ville- Russia firminy.fr/lecorbusier/Archives/savoir_plus.htm# After being shown round by Restoration architect eglise…http://www.fondationlecorbusier.asso.fr/egfir Nikita Shangin, President Putin has promised he will .html personally oversee major restoration schemes, including the reconstruction of Moscow’s dilapidated France Bolshoi Theatre. Shigeru Ban’s Centre Pompidou satellite museum at http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=554801 Metz. ‘A glass roof is pierced by cantilevered tubes..’ Meanwhile, St Petersburg’s City Architecture http://www.archidose.org/May05/053005.html Committee has approved a revised design by French architect Dominique Perrault for an extension to the Oscar Niemeyer Mariinsky Theatre. Is 97 year-old Oscar Niemeyer the world’s oldest http://www.times.spb.ru/archive/times/1054/top/t_15 working architect? The Pritzker laureate and RIBA 213.htm Original scheme: http://tinyurl.com/4cdph Royal Gold Medallist is currently designing a mile- long seafront esplanade of buildings and open space Switzerland in Niteroi, Rio’s sister city across Guanabara Bay. The tourist board has launched a new theme route ‘Eventually, Niemeyer Way will house two ‘enticing travellers to discover the diversity of Swiss cathedrals, a theatre, film institute, plaza, ferry art and architecture...’ station, memorial and a Foundation. http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect http://www.niemeyer.org.br/ =108&sid=5636670
Beirut Barcelona An Athens-based architectural team has won the Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar nears completion. ‘British international competition for the ‘revitalisation’ of visitors will surely think that Norman Foster’s media- Martyrs’ Square. http://tinyurl.com/98rnd stealing Swiss Re tower has been miraculously uprooted and replanted beside the Mediterranean...’ Norway http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1446 Gudmundur Jonsson’s Norveg Coast Cultural Centre 813,00.html ‘stands as a lighthouse representing the coastal culture through the ages.’ http://www.arc Poland space.com/architects/jonsson/norveg.html A shortlist of 11 selected for the design of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews... Japan http://tinyurl.com/632jh ....includes Daniel Libeskind, 100 years after he arrived in the country, a celebration Peter Eisenman and Zvi Hecker. of the work of William Merrell Vories, missionary http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/559702.html and architect. 25 of his buildings survive. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20050313wo37.htm Melbourne http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~vc/englishversion/ebuildings. Grimshaw raises the roof on the city rail station’s html new Au$700m redevelopment. http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/24/1111525284 Malta 371.html?oneclick=true ....while in New York The church of St Catherine of Italy, currently Grimshaw is selected for the Queens Museum of Art awaiting restoration, will host an Easter festival. Built remodelling. http://tinyurl.com/3os8g The building in 1576, (architect Girolamo Cassar), badly damaged started life as a world icon for the 1939 World’s Fair: by an earthquake, then remodelled by architect http://www.queensmuseum.org/history/ Romano Carapecchia in 1713. http://www.timesof malta.com/core/article.php?id=180830r Samarra An explosion has destroyed the top section of Iraq’s Casablanca most revered ancient monument - the 9th Century The French Colonial-style Lincoln Hotel (1917, spiral minaret at Samarra. Insurgents are blamed for architect Hubert Bride) has been saved from the the attack on the 52-metre Malwiya tower, which had bulldozer, but not from falling apart... recently been used by US soldiers as a sniper post. http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr= The minaret, built by Caliph al-Mutawakil in 852, 11&id=4899 was among antiquities on an ‘at risk’ list. The attack 16 comes after architectural historians and been hailed by the US Army Corps of Engineers as conservationists had warned that soldiers were ‘sociologically ground-breaking’. causing ‘significant damage to historic sites in http://www.iraqdevelopmentprogram.org/idp/news/ne Samarra, including the walls of an ancient palace.’ w803.htm Warnings were sounded earlier this year about the need to safeguard the landmark, citing the 1954 Peru Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Archaeologists digging at the ruins of Pachacamac Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. have discovered a multi-level burial site. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?id http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4555511.st art=11727 Brussels India Philippe Decelle has converted an Art Deco Mormon Architect Hafeez Contractor has won approval for his church into a ‘temple of plastic, the Plasticarium...’ record-breaking skyscraper in New Delhi. The 2,329 http://tinyurl.com/a7k3x ft tower, apparently designed to ‘resemble the peaks of the Himalayas’ will contain a 50-floor five-star Africa hotel, a 40-storey glass atrium and 370,000 sq metres The African Union of Architects Congress, held next of shopping centres. www.hafeezcontractor.com week in Abuja, will address urbanisation, in http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050415/asp/business particular ‘unplanned cities resulting in massive /story_4617349.asp environmental degradation’ http://allafrica.com/stories/200505100411.html Calcutta A partial last-minute rescue/restoration for the city’s USA Mackinnon Mackenzie building. ‘English Memphis architect Eugene Burr has been honoured Renaissance-type cornices, the spectacular ionic by the AIA for his outreach programs...including a pillars, delicately-carved ornaments and its bravura of Barkitecture competition for innovative doghouses... stones’ http://www.hsar.org/bark/bark/2004/doghouses.html http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050315/asp/calcutta/ story_4491997.asp England Nazi Shropshire: Adolf Hitler planned to establish his France UK headquarters in the quiet market town of Plans to build a Tadao Ando-designed museum of art Bridgnorth. http://tinyurl.com/dd6lb on the former Renault factory on Ile Seguin in the Seine, just outside Paris, appear to be in jeopardy. Sacramento Billionaire businessman François Pinault has A developer proposes a 29-storey tower with a scale complained of local authority red tape, and his art replica of the Parthenon on top. Architect Edwin M. collection now looks set to move to Venice. Kado dismissed criticism, saying he weathered http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1 similar opposition when he designed a terraced 462982,00.html pyramid next to the Sacramento River. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0517GreekT St. Petersburg opper17-ON.html http://tinyurl.com/7bsec The Hermitage Museum has unveiled design proposals for a new $155m east wing that will expand Chicago into a 19th Century landmark building designed by Renzo Piano’s design for the Art Institute’s new Carlo Rossi. Local architects Studio 44 have been wing. ‘A superlong footbridge that would shoot like a appointed, with Rem Koolhaas’ OMA as ‘consultant’. glistening knife over the park’s south end...’ http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/04/19/ http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=19764_0_2 047.html 4_0_C An aluminium canopy like a ‘flying carpet...’ http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/04/2005/ www.artic.edu/aic/visitor_info/latest_news.html hm4_2_118.html http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst- ftr-art31.html Iraq http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/arts/design/31in The award of a construction contract for renovation sti.html? of a police station to ‘a female-owned business’ has The Art Newspaper, RIBA World and listserves. 17
SESAH BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2004-2005 [expiration of term at annual meeting]
President: Pamela H. Simpson, Washington and Lee University, Lexington (2005)
Past-President: Carol A.H. Flores, Ball State University (2005)
Vice-President (President-Elect): David Gobel, Savannah College of Art and Design (2007)
Secretary: David Sachs, Kansas State University (2005)
Treasurer: Robert M. Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology (2006)
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Georgia: E.G. Daves Rossell, Savannah College of Art and Design (2006)
Kentucky: Julia Smith-Pinney, University of Kentucky (2006)
Louisiana: Ellen Weiss, Tulane University (2007)
Mississippi: David Lewis, Mississippi State University (2007)
North Carolina: Arthur Marks, UNC at Chapel Hill (2007)
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19 NEWS OF MEMBERS Anat Geva, Editor of ARRIS, was named the Award of the College of Architecture, Georgia Tech. Religious Studies Faculty Fellow in the Glasscock This is the highest award of the College and Center for Humanities Research for the next acknowledges life achievement as a scholar or design academic year (2005-2006) for her project “Frank practitioner. Craig’s latest article, appearing last Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture: Faith, Form and month in New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Building Technology”. Century [Vol 2, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 27-38], is SESAH Treasurer Robert M. Craig has been named entitled “Architecture as Expression: Le Camus de the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Professor Mézières and Bernard Maybeck.”
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