NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS DECEMBER 1970 VOL. XIV NO.6 P U BLISHED SIX TIMES A YEAR BY THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS 1700 WAL NUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19I03 JAM ES F . O'GORMAN, PRESIDENT EDITOR: JAMES C. MASSEY, 6I4 S. LEE STREE T, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22 314. ASSOCIATE E DITOR: MRS. MARIA N CARD DONN ELLY, 2175 OLIVE STREET, EUGENE, OREGON 97405 SAH NOTICES Plan for London's West End from Trafalgar Square to 1977 Annual Tour. Charleston, South Carolina - October Regents Park." The meeting will be held on January 17 28-31. Mrs. S. Henry Edmunds, His toric Charleston at 3 p.m. in the Western Reserve Historical Society. Foundation, will serve as Chairman. Announcementof the tour will be mailed to the membership by May 15, 1971. ORGANIZATIONS 1972 Annual Tour. The Architecture of H. H. Richardson, National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Trust held His Contemporaries and His Successors , in Boston and its 24th Annual Me eting and Preservation C onference vicinity - Augus t 23-27. Robert B. Rettig will serve as November 4-8 in C harleston, S.C . It was the largest in Chairman. attendance (1600), and perhaps the most felicitous in 1971 Foreign Tour. Northern Cities in Britain: their Trust history, with its blend of tours, workshops, and architecture and development in the 19th century - Au­ lectures in one of the most s ignificant and delightful gust 12-23. Frank I. Jenkins, Department of Architecture, historic districts in the United States. The President University of Manchester, is Coordinating Chairman. All of the Trust, ] ames Biddle, is a member of SAH, and many accommodations will be in British Transport Hotels, SAH members participated in the program, including which were built around the turn of this century. Places Frederick D. Nichols, Vincent P. Foley and Mrs. Peter are open on the tour. Adams, who spoke on preservation activities in their 1972 Foreign Tour. Japan, May 28-June 18, 1972. Bunji respective areas, and Ernest A. Connally, William J. Kobayashi, Department of Architecture, N ihon University, Murtagh, James C. Massey and H. Roll McLaughlin, who Tokyo, will serve as Chairman. served on Technical Consultation Workshops . Among the other programs were a series of papers on Charleston CHAPTERS architecture and preservation; a session on ' 'The Role of Chicago. Frances Steiner lectured on "The Architecture State Programs,'' during which Antoinette F. Downing of Ezra Eban Roberts" on November 3 at the Oak Park (SAH) spoke on "The Urban Survey," and a session on Public Library. E. B. Roberts practiced in Oak Park from preservation law, a new and important direction in Trust 1890 to 1926, and was responsible for many of the town's activities, arranged by Terry B. Morton (SAH) and Frank major buildings. On December 7, Harriet Smith and Fred B. Gilbert. On Saturday, November 7, Philip C. Johnson Koeper showed slides of the recent SAH New Mexico tour, (SAH) chaired a program concerned with ' 'Contemporary and Thomas Slade discussed the 1969- 70 survey of his­ Buildings in Historic Districts," with Harmon H. Goldstone toric buildings in Newport, R.I., carried on by the National (SAH) speaking on "The Marriage of New Buildings With Park Service's Historic American Buildings Survey. Old," and William Seale (SAH) chaired a sess ion on "The Changing Historic House Museum ," which included George Latrobe Chapter of Washington. At a meeting and recep­ L. Wrenn (SAH) who spoke on "What Is a His toric House tion in the Old Patent Office November 16, Caroline R. Museum.'' Heath gave a n illustrated talk on the architecture of At its annual banquet the Trust's major a ward, The Chicago a nd its preservation problems. On short notice Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award was presented to Miss Heath, an architectural historian with the State of Frank L. Horton, Director of Restoration of Old Salem, Illinois, substituted for Wilbert R. Hasbrouck, publisher North Carolina. The main speaker at the banquet was of the Prairie School Press and a director of SAH, who Michael Cafferty, Acting Assistant Secretary for Environ­ had suffered a heart attack, but is now recovering. ment and Urban Sys tems of the Department of Transporta­ Missouri Valley. The Chapter held a business meeting at tion , who delivered a s ignificant policy speech on ''Progress Arrow Rock, Mo., October 17 during the Missouri Historic and Preservation Transportation in Our Changing Preservation Conference, and discussed matters of future Cities." In his talk Mr. Cafferty spoke in detail about activity for the Chapter, including the possible expansion the efforts being made by his Department to consider the of their area of members hip to include all of the State of impact of highways on the historic environment, and the Missouri - and thereby St. L ouis. President of the Chap­ steps being taken to a void harm to historic and cultura l ter is Theodore Seligson. properties. (For details see "Historic Pres ervation," New York. Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich, Visiting Pro­ page 8.) fessor, New York University, and former Director, Zentral SAH-Great Britain. The British SAH will hold their 1971 lnstitut fur Kunstgeschichte, Munich, spoke on "The Conference at St. Andrews, Scotla nd, September 10-12 on Architectural Designs of Leonardo" December 7 at the the theme "The Uniqueness of Scottish Architecture." Institute of Fine Arts. Also of Scottish news is the award of the Society's Alice Western Reserve Architectural Historians. On December Davis Hitchcock Book Award for 1970 to Andor Gomme 11 the Chapter toured a group of Cleveland' s grand movie and David Walker for their book Architecture o f Glasgow palaces that are now deserted, but for which there are (Lund Humphries, 1968). Other events forthcoming for hopes for renewed use. In January, Richard N. Campen 1971 include the Annual Lecture, to be given by Rudolf will give an illustrated lecture on ''] ohn Nash and His Wittkower (SAH) on "The English Editions of Palladia's 1 I Quattro Libri" on January 29 at the V & A Museum, 6 by the Portuguese Government the rank of grand officer p.m. On April 17 the first in the series of Annual Sym­ in its Military Order of Santiago (St. James) and the Sword posia will be held in the new RIBA Drawings Gallery, for his services to the art and architecture of Portugal. 21 Portman Square, London WI, on the theme ''The Gothic The investiture took place in Washington on the 16th of Revival in British Architecture." October with the Portuguese ambassador, V. V. Garin, SAH members working in British subjects are reminded bestowing the honor ... PAUL THIRY, Seattle architect that the Society of Architectural Historians of Great and a former SAH Director, has received an honorary DF A Britain maintains a Register of Unpublished Research and from St. Martin' s College, Olympia, Washington. Work in Progress. Although the Register is primarily in­ tended for the work of British scholars, information about BOOKS research by others is always welcome, particularly in the Carlo Aymonino, Manlio Brusatin, Gianni Fabbri, Mauro sphere of British architecture. Extracts from the list are Lena, Pasquale Lovero, Sergio Lucianetti, Aldo Rossi. published from time to time; the current issue may be La citta di Padova. Saggio di analisi urbana, Rome: obtained from the Registrars, Dr. and Mrs. Andor Gomme, Officina, 1970. L. 30,000. Department of English, The University, Keele, Stafford­ Franco Barbieri. The Basilica. Corpus Palladianum: shire ST5 5BG, England. The price is one dollar, and the Vol. II, University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State Uni­ most convenient method of payment is by dollar bill. versity Press, 1970. $24.50. Second in the series on the Victorian Society - Great Britain. The following letter work of Andrea Palladio. Original Italian edition, Vicenza, has been received from Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Chairman 1969. of the Victorian Society: Theodore M. Brown (SAH). The Work of G. Rietveld, Sir, Architect. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1970. $12.50. The Victorian Society of Great Britain is anxious to First published in Holland, 1958. increase its American membership which costs Jll 0 a year, and for students J/5. To belong to the Victorian Society The Civil Engineer: His Origins. New York: American of Britain results in certain benefits which might he of Society of Civil Engineers, 1970. ASCE Historical Pub­ interest to present and future architectural historians. lication No. 1. $5. First of a new series on engineering There are, in the first place, detailed architectural notes history, sponsored by the ASCE Committee on History on areas in which walks, expeditions and tours are under· and Heritage of American Civil Engineering. This first taken by us, Much of what they contain goes beyond what volume comprises a selection of early essays ofengi­ can he found in my Buildings of England, which anyway neering history. Availa.ble: ASCE, 345 E. 47th Street, won't be complete for the whole country for several years, New York, N.Y. 10017. and even then will exclude Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Civilizing American Cities; A Selection of Frederick Law Then there are the Annual Reports - well produced, I am Olmsted's Writings on City Landscapes. Edited by S. B. told, and full of meat - and there are the Conference Re­ Sutton. Cambridge, Mass.: M.LT. Press, 1970. $12.50. ports and the Study Tours. Ian Dunlop. Palaces and Progresses of Elizabeth I. The reason why we are anxious to gain more members New York: Taplinger, 1970. $10. (although we have after not much more than ten years Anthony Emery. Darlington Hall. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970. already over 2,100) is that we have to live on subscription $21. income.