NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS JUNE 1984 VOL. XXVIII NO.3 SAH NOTICES KENNETH J. CONANT 1985 Annual Meeting-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 17- 21). General chairman, Osmund Overby of the University It is with deep regret that the Society announces the of Missouri with local co-chairmen, Franklin K. Toker, of recent death of one of its early fo unders: Kenneth J. the University of Pittsburgh and Richard L. Cleary, Car­ Conant. A full obituary will appear later this year in the negie Mellon University are finalizing arrangements for the SAH Journal. 1985 annual meeting. Headquarters for the meeting will be the William Penn Hotel with Joseph Urban's Art Deco banquet hall. 1984 Domestic Tour-Northern Michigan (August 15-19). Receptions are being planned at the Hall of Architecture Kathryn B. Eckert, Michigan History Division, leader. (For at Carnegie Institute and the Wintergarden at PPG Place. further details of the tour, see page 7 .) Tours will include the Mellon mansions, a three-hour boat trip down the Ohio, the Jones and Laughlin steel mill, and 1985 Domestic Tour-Orlando and Area (January 9-13). The Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. A post-meeting tour to tour will include visits to Tampa, Cape Canaveral, planta­ Lancaster is being planned (Sunday through Tuesday) by tion houses and Epcot Center in addition to Orlando, with a Elaine Holden. The Lancaster tour will include visits to guided walk through the historic section of the city. Local eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century build­ experts will do on-site leading of the group. We will stay at ings in the cities recently revitalized downtown, as well as to the Harley Hotel in Orlando. Detailed information will be public and private buildings in surrounding country towns. sent to the membership in summer. A list of all SAH sessions appeared in the April 1984 Newsletter, with the names and addresses of the persons Second 1985 Domestic Tour-Providence/Newport (June who will chair them. Persons wishing to submit papers for 19-23). Note: This tour was originally scheduled for August, the Pittsburgh meeting are reminded that proposals for but has been changed to June 19-23. William Jordy of papers should be sent directly to the persons chairing the Brown University will guide SAH tour participants through sessions; the deadline is September 13, 1984. Providence and Newport. Professor Jordy plans to visit interiors not ordinarily open to the public in many of the The Rosann Berry Annual Meeting Fellowship. Awarded most prominent buildings and houses in that area. each year by the SAH to enable a student engaged in advanced graduate study to attend the annual meeting of the Society. For the recipient, the Society will waive all fees SAH Tour Scholarship Committee. The committee to review and charges connected with the meeting itself, and, in applications for the two 1985 domestic tour student schol­ addition, will provide reimbursement for travel, lodging arships has recently been appointed by President Carol Krinsky. Sarah B. Landau will chair the committee, assisted and meals directly related to the meeting, up to a combined total of$500.00. To be eligible, an applicant must have been by Peter L. Goss and Hanna Lerski. Applications for the a member ofSAH for at least one year prior to the meeting; scholarships are available by writing to the SAH office, 1700 be currently engaged in advanced graduate study (normally Walnut Street, Suite 716, Philadelphia, PA 19103-6085. beyond the Master's level) that involves some aspect of the Please identify which tour scholarship you are applying for. history of architecture or of one of the fields closely allied to it; and apply for the Fellowship by using the application 1985 Foreign Tour-Yugoslavia. Slobodan Curcic will lead form that may be secured from the Executive Secretary, the SAH tour to Yugoslavia in late May, 1985. The tour will Society of Architectural Historians, 1700 Walnut Street, be in Yugoslavia for two weeks with SAH obtaining group Suite 716, Philadelphia, PA 19103-6085. rates for those who care to tour Venice before returning home. 1986 Annual Meeting-Washington, DC (April1-6). Osmund Overby, University of Missouri, is general chairman of the Nominating Committee for 1984/1985 Slate. Suggestions meeting. Antoinette Lee, former President of the Latrobe and recommendations to the committee should be sent to Chapter of SAH, will serve as local chairman. Ms. Lee has Adolf K. Placzek, c/o Society of Architectural Historians, organized an outstanding local committee to help plan the 1700 Walnut Street, Suite 716, Philadelphia, PA 19103- major events. Headquarters for the meeting will be the 6085. Other members of the committee are James Acker­ Mayflower Hotel. man, Catherine Bishir, Mirza Dickel, and William Drake. Guide to Graduate Degree Programs in Architectural Histo­ ALERT ry. Dora Wiebenson, Chairman of the SAH Education Do you know of anyone you feel would be a good Committee, has announced the completion of the 1984 addition to SAH's Board of Directors? Send the name, Guide to Graduate Degree Programs in Architectural Histo­ along with supporting information, to SAH's Nominating ry. It is currently available from the SAH office, for $3.65, Committee, c/o the Philadelphia office. The Committee which includes postage and handling. welcomes all such suggestions. SAH Membership Pins. !OK gold filled lapel pins, carrying Do you know of any deserving graduate students who the SAH logo, are available from the SAH office. Cost is would benefit from going on one of the Domestic Tours? We $10.00, which includes postage and handling. have a scholarship fund to enable them to do this, but the applications must be in before the deadline for consider­ ation. None such were received before the Northern Michi­ Report of Annual Business Meeting gan Tour deadline, so no scholarship was awarded. NOW is Amfac Hotel the time to start the process for the next tours. Minneapolis, Minnesota April 27, 1984 Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts and Landmark Center, The meeting was called to order by President Damie Michael Conforti, Shirley Nilsen, Barbara Braman, and Stillman. Mary Campbell. In closing, Krinsky thanked the session chairmen and the speakers. President's Report. Stillman welcomed SAH members Second Vice-President's Report. Osmund Overby report­ and guests to the 37th annual meeting. General Chairman ed that the tour of nothern Michigan will include summer Carol Krinsky and local chairmen, Eileen Michels and Tom houses, resorts, Bible camps, and industrial architecture, all Martinson were thanked for the success of the meeting. The surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery in the membership was informed of the recent death of Kenneth United States. Members are urged to call the office for Conant, one of the founders of SAH. Stillman announced information and reservations. Two Domestic Tours will be that Paul Goldberger was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his conducted in 1985. SAH will visit Orlando and Tampa in architectural criticism and that Richard Meier received the January, 1985, and Providence/Newport in June of 1985. Pritzker Prize awarded for a significant contribution to the The summer tour to Mexico was cancelled due to lack of building environment through the art of architecture. The registrations. Slobodan Curcic will lead a tour to Yugoslavia newly appointed nominating committee will be chaired by in late spring of 1985. Plans are being made for a tour to Adolf Placzek and have James Ackerman, Catherine Bishir, China in 1986 with Nancy Steinhardt as leader. A tour Mirza Dickel, and William Drake as members. Stillman questionnaire is being prepared and will be sent to the urged SAH members to contact the committee with recom­ entire membership. Overby urged everyone to reply. Future mendations and suggestions for next year's slate. Dimitri annual meetings will be held in Pittsburgh in 1985 with Tselos, University of Minnesota, emeritus, Honorary Franklin K. Toker and Richard L. Cleary as co-chairmen. A Chairman of the annual meeting was introduced and spoke post meeting tour to Lancaster is planned, led by Elaine briefly about his early days as an architectural historian. Holden. The Society will meet in Washington, DC in 1986. Treasurer's Report. In the absence of Treasurer Paul Antoinette Lee is chairman. Other meeting sites are San Henderson, the report was presented by Robert Jorgensen. Francisco, 1987, Chicago, 1988, and Montreal in 1989. In order to meet all expenses it was necessary to borrow Secretary's Report. Eileen Michels informed the mem­ some of the 1983 interest and dividends from the Endow­ bership that currently there are 26 chapters. Three new ment Fund. The Fund did grow from $140,000 to $151,000. chapters have been formed, Southeast Chapter, Central The Rosann Berry Memorial Fund has reached $10,000. Indiana Chapter, and Virginia Chapter. A meeting was held Because the imbalance between income and expense was with chapter representatives with an excellent exchange of recognized by summer of 1983, the Board of Directors ideas. Michels reported seeing chapters as an increasingly passed an increase in dues in September. SAH is not eligible effective way to strengthen SAH. for another Challenge Grant for three years and the Journal Editor's Report. Naomi Miller reported that the Treasurer urges the Society to take strong, permanent cost March, 1984 issue of JSAH would be late with publication reduction measures. in late May or early June. Miller, who will complete her term as Journal Editor with the March, 1984 issue, thanked Executive Secretary's Report. Olson announced meeting Richard Betts, Book Review Editor and Carol Betts who has registration of 360. Membership is down from 1983, cur­ served as Copy Editor on an interim basis.