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Note from the Editor

Christine R Henry — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:00:00 GMT

This Fall issue of VAN includes announcements for many great opportunities including conferences and scholarships across the many disciplines that VAF members represent. We also have calls for VAF award nominations and papers for the upcoming annual conference in Salt Lake to be held in the summer of 2017. The member news section is packed with updates from members about the great work they have been doing in the field and classroom. Finally, the three featured essays in this issue are from 2016 awardees reflecting on their experiences in Durham .

These essays have inspired me to reflect on my experiences with VAF. As I prepared to start my second year of teaching I worked to develop an upper level undergraduate seminar on vernacular architecture and was reminded of my first introduction to vernacular studies. It was just over 15 years ago that I attended the Poplar Forest Field School, taught by long-time VAF member Travis McDonald where my interest and enthusiasm for fieldwork was kindled. This transformative experience gave me not only the opportunity to see the ongoing work of restoration at Poplar Forest, but to get hands-on experience in the field measuring, analyzing, and documenting a building in Lynchburg. As I designed my new course, I wanted to cultivate that same sense of excitement and awe I felt in delving deeply into the multiple layers of material and culture in a building. I perused the VAF syllabus exchange to find readings and design projects that challenge my students to expand their skills and thinking. I also reflected on the numerous informal conversations I have had with members over the years on bus rides to intriguing sites and over meals in inspiring spaces and was amazed by all of the generosity of the VAF community. In the end, I designed a class that is both grounded in VAF and also my own personal approach to the topics that I hope will inspire my students to find and explore their own interests. Thank you VAF for providing a place to challenge, inspire, and share. I would love it if you would share your reflections on VAF experiences, either through the comments section below or by sending an essay to me at vaneditor@vaf.web. Hope you enjoy the issue! Christine

Note from Tania Martin, 2016 Paul E. Buchanan Award Recipient

Christine R Henry — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 21:40:38 GMT

It was a great honour to receive the VAF Buchanan Award 2016 for the Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes Field School. Such heartfelt recognition from one’s peers and colleagues is certainly appreciated. However, I also wish to acknowledge the numerous collaborators who contribute to the success of the Field School, notably Nancy van Dolsen, John Wood, Jean-Benoit Saint-Laurent and Léïc Godbout who generously share their expertise in field documentation and restoration, the office of Gaspé-based Vachon Roy architects, professors at the Cégep (college), representatives of Parcs Canada, Percé and Gaspé municipal authorities and non-profit organisations who yearly participate in community workshops, the Musée de la Gaspésie and the Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec Gaspé for access to primary sources, engaged citizens in our host localities for their warm welcome, and of course the students who come from diverse horizons and enrich the whole experience with their disciplinary lenses.

Additionally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the VAF for its support through a fieldwork grant when I first started up the Field School and successive Orlando V. Ridout fellowships awarded to students enrolled in the Field School.

The following link leads you to the English version of the course web site where you can learn more about the Field School.

Thank you all.

Tania Martin, Professor at Université Laval School of Architecture.

“Bring It Home” Reflections on the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) Durham 2016 Conference

Christine R Henry — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 19:22:53 GMT

by Betty R. Torrell, 2016 VAF Access Awardee

We hope once more to feel like a small group of intrepid fieldworkers, in it together to better understand what we love. (Conference Program-Welcome to Durham)

There are several definitions for the colloquial expression “bring it home”. They are primarily concerned with emphasizing the delivery of a message or an outcome. Each of these defines an aspect of my experiences at the Durham conference:

A positive encouraging and motivating phrase to get to the punch line.
Encouraging to state the point.
Please get to the climax.
To return something to its rightful location (http://www.urbandictionary.com)

1. “A Positive Encouraging and Motivating Phrase to get to the Punch Line”

I applied for the Access Award as a Visiting Professor of Interior Design at Western Carolina University (WCU). Having moved to North Carolina from the Pacific Northwest, an awareness of the vernacular architecture and material culture of North Carolina became central to my personal education and my new role as an educator.

One of my classes is the History of Design, a survey of art, architecture and furniture from ancient times through the present day. Inspired by the rich local culture of the region, I added to the curriculum a unit focusing on North Carolina where the students’ individual research projects concentrated on the local vernacular both in terms of the built environment and material culture. This year’s theme for their research papers echoed the WCU campus theme of Africa, specifically exploring the contribution of the African-American to the material culture of Appalachia. Coincidentally, the subject of one of the student research projects was the work of cabinet maker Thomas Day, whose work and workshop were included in the VAF conference Field Notes, “Bright Leaf Culture and Thomas Day”. More than a coincidence, this “punch line” to my conference experience reinforced my belief in the importance of the local vernacular to the appreciation of the history of design.

2. “Encouraging to State the Point”

The second definition, “encouraging to state the point” was “brought home” in the conference Paper Sessions, particularly as a new VAF member and conference attendee in the session titled “User’s Guide to the VAF”. The new members who attended this sessions were invited to “get the most out of what VAF has to offer” by receiving information about participating in VAF conference paper presentations and publishing in the Journal of the VAF Forum or VAN, thus encouraging us to “state the point” by sharing our work with the VAF community.

3. “Please get to the climax”

As a new attendee to the conference the climax for me was the fieldtrips: both the All-Day Bus Tours and the Post-Conference Tours on Sunday. When registering for the tours, I found it difficult to select from the choices. All the fieldtrips seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The preparation material in the booklets was exhaustive and thought-provoking. The significance of the often little known but extraordinary sites and the level of access to these sites was beyond expectation. The camaraderie and fellowship of the tour participants and leaders was inspiring, and the pride exhibited by the building and site caretakers was heartwarming. Of the four conference days the tours were truly the highpoint for me.

3. “To return to its rightful location”

The opportunity to participate in this year’s conference “brought home” to me not only the richness and diversity of North Carolina as expressed through its vernacular architecture, but reinforced the importance of the discourse on the vernacular and how this discourse occupies a “rightful location” in our scholarship and work. As Yuko Nakamura wrote in the Vernacular Architecture Newsletter (VAN) reflecting on the conference Field Notes sessions:

This issue of definition, apparently so simple, has proven to be one of the most serious problems for advocates of vernacular architecture and landscapes research. ‘A straightforward, convincing, authoritative definition has not yet been offered,’ write architectural historians Dell Upton and John Michael Vlach, in the introduction of their 1986 edited volume ‘Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture.’ Thirty years have passed since this statement. I now look for VAF members’ help to better understand what we study.

As Nakamura’s question coming out of the conference seeks to define vernacular architecture, our answer will shape the outcome of our efforts and its impact on our communities.

SCAD Ambassadors Consider Experiences in Durham

Christine R Henry — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:17:28 GMT

by ambassadors: Elizabeth Clappin (MFA –Architectural History) and Stephanie Heher (MFA Candidate – Historic Preservation)

It was a small group of student ambassadors from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the annual VAF conference but the experience was a very fruitful and enjoyable one nonetheless. Though the two of us attended the same tours, Piedmont Patchwork and Durham: City of the New South when the groups met at the end of the day we were able to share stories and learn about the highlights of the other tours we missed out on. As the focus of both our graduate work is American vernacular architecture it was perfectly suited to giving us both a taste of our specialties in a new setting. Perhaps the factor that stood out the most for both of us was the fact that as student ambassadors there was no barrier or distinction made to separate us from the group. We were openly and warmly accepted as members of an academic community, which personally leads us to desire to continue to work with the VAF for years to come. Graduate school often looks at the field abstractly however the opportunity to see just how many ways people are working towards documenting and preserving our architectural heritage made us only want to work as part of this community more. If we had to pick a favorite spot, the Palmer Institute was incredible and the director a fantastic guide though we would have loved more time there! The diversity of talks allowed us to split up and attend lectures based on our own areas of study and the student chapter meeting was an excellent chance to network. Elizabeth was able to make connections that lead to a new job in Philadelphia starting this month.

Call for Papers: VAF 2017 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah due October 30, 2016

Christine R Henry — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:10:48 GMT

The Vernacular Architecture Forum (www.vafweb.org) invites paper proposals for its 36th Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 31-June 3, 2017. Papers may address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions on all relevant topics are welcome but we encourage papers exploring western American themes, including ethnic settlement, landscapes of ranching, mining, and agriculture, urbanization, religious expression, Native American identity, and the creation of vacation and recreation landscapes. Additionally, the VAF is launching a multi-year program of inquiry into the distinctiveness of the VAF and the vernacular architecture movement. To this end, we encourage papers that consider this field over time. How does the wide range of VAF projects (tours, guidebooks, book and article awards, field schools, annual conference papers, publications, etc.) demonstrate how our questions, concerns, and methods have changed and evolved? Where do we see evidence of that history in our current work, and what might our future look like? Proposals might focus on a particular building type (i.e. houses, barns), a research strategy (fieldwork), political or theoretical convictions (Gender, Marxism, the Everyday, etc), or particular approaches to presenting our work and engaging colleagues and the public.

Students and young professionals may also apply for the Pamela H. Simpson Presenter’s Fellowships offering support of up to $500 to presenting papers at VAF’s annual conference.

SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT

Papers should be analytical rather than descriptive, and no more than twenty minutes in length. Proposals for complete sessions, roundtable discussions or other innovative means that facilitate scholarly discourse are especially encouraged. At least one session will be devoted to Field Notes – shorter papers (five to eight minutes in length) that introduce new techniques, innovations, and discoveries in documenting vernacular buildings and landscapes. Proposals should clearly state the argument of the paper and explain the methodology and content in fewer than 400 words. Make sure to indicate if it is a regular paper proposal or a shorter fieldwork proposal. Please include the paper title, author’s name, email address, a one-page c.v. You may include up to two images with your submission. Note that presenters must deliver their papers in person and be VAF members at the time of the conference. Speakers who do not register for the conference by March 1, 2017, will be withdrawn. Please do not submit an abstract if you are not committed to attending the papers session on Saturday, June 3rd.

THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS OCTOBER 30, 2016. The abstracts and c.v. should be emailed as a PDF attachment to the VAF Papers Committee Chair, Daves Rossell, at papers@vafweb.org. For general information about the Salt Lake City conference, please visit the conference website here or contact Alison Flanders at saltlakecity@vafweb.org.

Pamela H. Simpson Presenter’s Fellowships:

VAF’s Pamela H. Simpson Presenter’s Fellowships offer a limited amount of financial assistance to students and young professionals presenting papers at VAF’s annual conference. Awards are intended to offset travel and registration costs for students, and to attract developing scholars to the organization. Any person presenting a paper who is currently enrolled in a degree-granting program, or who has received a degree within one year of the annual conference is eligible to apply. Awards cannot exceed $500. Previous awardees are ineligible, even if their status has changed. Recipients are expected to participate fully in the conference, including tours and workshops.

To apply, submit with your abstract a one-page attachment with "Simpson Presenter’s Fellowship" at the top and the following information: 1) name, 2) institution or former institution, 3) degree program, 4) date of degree (received or anticipated), 5) mailing address, 6) permanent email address, 7) telephone number, and 8) paper title.

Walking Tour of Washington DC's Historic Emerald Street: October 8, 2016

Christine R Henry — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:38:19 GMT

Emerald Street, NE (between E/F and 13th/14th Streets) has a fascinating history. In 1892, speculators transformed the square from empty space to 169 rowhouse lots and a new one-block street, today's Emerald Street. Developers immediately bought lots and within a year were already building houses for Capitol Hill's growing middle-class market. Emerald Street became a street of Queen Anne houses. Emerald Street's history reflects Washington's history - after a boom period as a middle-class neighborhood, disinvestment set in by the 1950s. The riots after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968 devastated H Street, NE. Emerald Street was included in the H Street Urban Renewal Area, and many houses were rehabilitated by DC Redevelopment Land Agency. Today, Emerald Street is a vibrant community.

Come on a free walking tour and learn about Emerald Street's interesting history.

Saturday, October 8, 10 am

Meet at 13th and Emerald Streets, NE

Tours will go on rain or shine

Free, open to the public

For more details, or to RSVP (optional), contact the CHRS office at: caphrs@aol.com or (202) 543-0425.

VAF New England Chapter scheduled tour October 15 in Brattleboro, VT

Christine R Henry — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:35:22 GMT

Save the Date

Another VAF-New England Field Trip!

October 15, 2016

Brattleboro, Vermont

Please see the NE chapter section of the VAF website for details

Cornell University and Historic Ithaca Celebrate Milestone Anniversaries with Conference October 14-15

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:25:02 GMT

Historic Ithaca is celebrating its 50^th anniversary this year and the graduate program in Historic Preservation Planning at Cornell University is celebrating its 40^th anniversary by partnering to sponsor a preservation symposium at Cornell on October 14^th and 15^th. All are welcome! For more information, please see the conference website.

Tompkins Fellowship now accepting applications Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 2016

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:10:31 GMT

Attention Student Architectural Historians!

Spend your summer conducting research on a nationally significant U.S. building or site and preparing a history to become part of the permanent HABS collection. The HABS/SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship is a joint program of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) that permits a graduate student architectural historian to work on a 12-week HABS history project during the summer of 2017. The Fellow’s research interests and goals will inform the building or site selected for documentation by HABS staff. Applicants should be pursuing studies in U.S. architectural history or a related field. The award consists of a $10,000 stipend, and SAH conference registration and travel expenses up to $1,000.

Applications accepted September 1 – December 31, 2016.

For more information visit the NPS website.

Call for Nominations or Entries: Abbott Lowell Cummings Book Prize

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:06:23 GMT

The Vernacular Architecture Forum seeks nominations or entries for the Abbott Lowell Cummings Book Prize. The Cummings Prize, named after the founding president of the VAF, is awarded annually to the publication that has made the most significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes. In judging the nominated books, the jurors look for a publication that is:

- based on primary research,

- emphasizes fieldwork that takes seriously the materiality of architecture and landscapes, and draws on particular elements of environments as evidence,

- breaks new ground in interpretation or methodology, and

- contributes generally to the intellectual vitality of vernacular studies in North America

Entries may come from any discipline concerned with vernacular architecture studies. Books published from January 2015 through December 2016 are eligible for consideration. Edited collections of previously published materials are not eligible.

The deadline for the 2017 Cummings Prize is December 15, 2016.

There is no application form, but a cover letter should include a complete mailing address, phone number and email address in order to notify the candidate should the nominated work receive the award.

Books should be sent directly to each of the three committee members for the Cummings Prize. Please contact the committee chair with any questions at cummingsprize@vafweb.org.

2017 Cummings Prize committee:

Ryan Smith, chair

Department of History

Virginia Commonwealth University

811 S. Cathedral Place

Richmond, VA 23284-9105

Annmarie Adams

School of Architecture

McGill University

815 Sherbrooke St. West

Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C2

*To avoid customs charges for the book recipients, please ensure the shippers pay all duties and taxes. The parcels must arrive Delivered Duty Paid (DDP).

Robert Saint-George

History Department

University of Pennsylvania

1 College Hall, Room 208

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379

For more information please see the awards section of the VAF website.

International Architectural Paint Research (APR) Conference registration now open

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:00:00 GMT

The International Architectural Paint Research (APR) Conference will be held from March 15 - 17, 2017 in New York City on the historic campus of Columbia University. APR is a multi-disciplinary field, and this conference promises to bring together many members of this vibrant, creative community that includes historic paint analysts, scholars of historic interiors, art and architecture conservators, material scientists, decorative painters, preservation architects, and heritage managers.

The 2017 APR conference will be the sixth in a series of increasingly influential and groundbreaking conferences that brings together professionals from around the world to share their latest findings related to the study, analysis, conservation, and replication of historic finishes in the built environment. With over 30 speakers from 14 different countries, conference topics are not limited to paints, and include architecturally engaged finishes such as wallpaper, gilding, plasterwork, and wood finishes.

Previous APR conferences have been held in Stockholm, Sweden (2014, hosted by the Swedish National Heritage Board); Lincoln, England (2010, hosted by the University of Lincoln); and New York City (2008, hosted by Columbia University). Each conference has resulted in an illustrated volume of peer-reviewed papers published by Archetype Publications Ltd., one of the world’s leading publishers in the conservation of art and antiquities and technical art history.

Registration is now open on the conference website.

Call for Nominations: Catherine W. Bishir Prize

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:55:56 GMT

Does your work contribute to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes? Have you published a scholarly article on the subject in the last two years? You may be eligible for the Bishir Prize.

The Bishir Prize, named for longtime member and influential scholar Catherine W. Bishir, is awarded annually to the scholarly article from a juried North American publication that has made the most significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes. They should be based on primary research, break new ground in interpretation or methodology, and contribute to the intellectual vitality of these fields. Entries may come from any discipline concerned with vernacular architecture studies.

Please note that essays published as chapters in a book are also eligible if the volume is peer-reviewed, published within the time parameters specified, and the research presented in the essay is new. Anthologized collections are not eligible.

The deadline for nominations for the 2017 Bishir Prize is December 20, 2016.

To nominate an article please submit the following:

MS Word document providing contact information, publication data (name of book publishing company or title of journal, and date of publication), and a brief statement contextualizing the author(s) and article.
PDF copy of the article.

Nomination materials should be submitted to Arijit Sen at bishirprize@vafweb.org

For more detailed information please see the awards section VAF website.

University of Oregon Preservation Program Moves to Portland and has New Director, VAF Member Jim Buckley

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:46:02 GMT

The Historic Preservation Program at the University of Oregon has a brand new home in Portland! With the help of a significant private gift, the graduate program has moved from UO’s Eugene campus to newly-renovated classrooms and offices in the White Stag Block, an award-winning renovation of historic commercial buildings along the Willamette River in Portland’s historic Old Town. The HP program joins UO’s existing architecture, law, and business programs in the expanding Portland nucleus.

The HP Program also has a new director, as James Buckley has taken over from the retiring long-time head, Kingston Heath. Heath, who guided the program for 13 years, worked with the donor to plan the new space and provide an endowed chair for the program. Buckley, whose background includes both development of historic properties and academic roles at UC Berkeley and MIT, expressed excitement about the opportunity that the move to Portland presents: “Our students will have state-of-the-art facilities from which to explore one of the most dynamic cities in the country, where intense development pressure threatens a remarkable physical and cultural heritage.” As part of the bequest, the program will be able to add another full-time tenure-track faculty position, with the search to commence in the Fall of 2016.

The program will continue to emphasize hands-on experience in preservation, offering Master’s degree students the chance to work with local professionals on actual sites and policies in the Portland Metro area and throughout the West. This summer, for example, students in UO’s flagship Field School joined National Park Service experts in a variety of restoration projects in Mt. Rainier National Park. Both Heath and Buckley are long-time members and former board members of the VAF, ensuring that vernacular perspectives will continue to be at the core of UO’s preservation program.

More information on the program is available at http://hp.uoregon.edu/historic-preservation-program.

University of Kentucky to offer graduate online certificate in Historic Preservation, starting Fall 2016

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:30:00 GMT

VAF board member Annmarie Adams named to professorship of McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:10:51 GMT

Longtime VAF member and board member Dr. Annmarie Adams has been appointed to a professorship at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine. With degrees in art history and architecture, her research interest is in the intersection of medicine and architecture including work on hospitals, surgical environments, end-of-life care and gendered space. Follow these links to read the full announcement in English or en Francais.

VAF member Laurie Bryant publishes book on adobe houses in Salt Lake City

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:07:14 GMT

VAF member Afiya Webb looking for research experience

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:40:01 GMT

Are you interested in the overlap between vernacular architecture and data science? Need a unpaid part-time assistant? My name is Afiya Webb and I am an independent researcher in the greater Boston area. I am looking to gain experience with BIM, data science techniques (using Python or R), and/or using the Faro laser scanner to investigate topics in vernacular architecture. If interested, please contact me at afiyawebb@gmail.com.

VAF Member Boyd Pratt helped create website for the barns of San Juan Islands

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:31:55 GMT

After years of survey work, VAF member Boyd Pratt has worked with the 100 Friends of Old Island Barns to create a web site Historic Barns of the San Juan Islands that showcases the incredible variety in age, function, size, and form of barns located on the collection of islands in the waters north of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. In addition a database that is searchable by location and roof type that provides concise histories and beautiful images, there is technical information on preservation and reference material for delving into the historical context of the area.

Fall 2016 Bibliography

Christine R Henry — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:17:13 GMT

Compiled by Ian Stevenson and Zachary Violette

Beisaw, April M. “Water for the City, Ruins for the Country: Archaeology of the New York City Watershed.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 20, no. 3 (September 2016): 614–26. doi:10.1007/s10761-016-0363-4.

Buggeln, Gretchen Townsend. “Viewpoint: Teaching Buildings and Landscapes to Today’s Undergraduates: Beyond the Classroom.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 23, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 1–15.

Byrd, Dana E. “Motive Power: Fans, Punkahs, and Fly Brushes in the Antebellum South.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 23, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 29–51.

Campbell, Hugh. “The Façade Fills the Frame: The Uses and Meanings of the Elevational View.” The Journal of Architecture 21, no. 6 (August 17, 2016): 860–72. doi:10.1080/13602365.2016.1218906.

Carr, Gilly, and Caroline Sturdy Colls. “Taboo and Sensitive Heritage: Labour Camps, Burials and the Role of Activism in the Channel Islands.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 22, no. 9 (October 20, 2016): 702–15. doi:10.1080/13527258.2016.1191524.

Casella, Eleanor Conlin, and Katherine Fennelly. “Ghosts of Sorrow, Sin and Crime: Dark Tourism and Convict Heritage in Van Diemen’s Land, Australia.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 20, no. 3 (September 2016): 506–20. doi:10.1007/s10761-016-0354-5.

Castro, Mauricio F. “Object Lesson: ‘All the Help I Needed, I Got Here’: Miami’s Freedom Tower and the Freedom Tower’s Miami.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 23, no. 1 (Spring 20016): 16–28.

Cenac, Christopher Everette, Sr. Hardscrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016.

Chance, Helena. The Factory in a Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2017.

Chang, Elizabeth Hope. “Hollow Earth Fiction and Environmental Form in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 38, no. 5 (October 19, 2016): 387–97. doi:10.1080/08905495.2016.1219190.

Damlūǧī, Salma Samar ad. A Yemen Reality:: Architecture Sculptured in Mud and Stone. 1: A Yemen Reality: Architecture Sculptured in Mud and Stone. 1. ed. Reading: Garnet, 1991.

———. The Valley of Mud Brick Architecture: Shibām, Tarīm & Wādī Ḥaḍramūt. Ancient to Contemporary Design. Reading: Garnet, 1992.

Davis, Timothy. National Park Roads: A Legacy in the American Landscape. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016.

———. “Passing the Torch: Landscape Studies in the Post-Jacksonian Age.” In Drawn to Landscape: The Pioneering Work of J .B. Jackson, edited by Janet Mendelsohn and Chris Wilson, 187–222. Staunton, VA: George F. Thompson, 2015.

DeFilippis, James, ed. Urban Policy in the Time of Obama. Globalization and Community, volume 26. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Dodson, Heidi. “Race and Contested Rural Space in the Missouri Delta: African American Farm Workers and the Delmo Labor Homes, 1940–51.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 23, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 78–101.

Erby, Kelly. Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston. A Quadrant Book. Minneapolis, MN: University Of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Finkelstein, Allison S. “A Female Sanctuary on the Former Western Front: The Gold Star Pilgrimage Rest Houses in France, 1930–33.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 23, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 52–77.

Geertse, M. “The International Garden City Campaign: Transnational Negotiations on Town Planning Methods 1913-1926.” Journal of Urban History 42, no. 4 (July 1, 2016): 733–52. doi:10.1177/0096144214566974.

Gibb, James G., and Scott D. Lawrence. “Imposed and Home-Grown Colonial Institutions: The Jesuit Chapels of St. Mary’s City and St. Francis Xavier, Maryland.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 20, no. 3 (September 2016): 536–47. doi:10.1007/s10761-016-0358-1.

Gissen, David. “Exhaust and Territorialisation at the Washington Bridge Apartments, New York City, 1963–1973.” The Journal of Architecture 21, no. 5 (July 3, 2016): 734–46. doi:10.1080/13602365.2016.1207435.

Havens, Mark, Jamer Hunt, and Joseph Giovannini. Out of Season: The Vanishing Architecture of the Wildwoods, 2016.

Hill, Libby. The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.

Johnson, Martin L. “The Well-Lighted Theater or the Semi-Darkened Room? Transparency, Opacity and Participation in the Institution of Cinema.” Early Popular Visual Culture 12, no. 2 (n.d.): 199–212.

Ju tte, D. “Living Stones: The House as Actor in Early Modern Europe.” Journal of Urban History 42, no. 4 (July 1, 2016): 659–87. doi:10.1177/0096144214566979.

Jütte, Daniel. “Smashed Panes and ‘Terrible Showers’: Windows, Violence, and Honor in the Early Modern City.” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 22, no. 2 (September 2015): 131–56. doi:10.1086/685867.

Karjanen, David J. The Servant Class City: Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego. Globalization and Community 25. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Kiechle, M. “Navigating by Nose: Fresh Air, Stench Nuisance, and the Urban Environment, 1840-1880.” Journal of Urban History 42, no. 4 (July 1, 2016): 753–71. doi:10.1177/0096144214566981.

Kinney, Rebecca J. Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth. California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage. Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Kutzler, Evan. Ossabaw Island: A Sense of Place. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2016.

Lewi, Hannah, and Andrew Peckham. “Building as Artefact: An Analytical Disposition.” The Journal of Architecture 21, no. 5 (July 3, 2016): 677–78. doi:10.1080/13602365.2016.1207858.

Longhurst, Peta. “Quarantine Matters: Colonial Quarantine at North Head, Sydney and Its Material and Ideological Ruins.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 20, no. 3 (September 2016): 589–600. doi:10.1007/s10761-016-0360-7.

Lynch, Nicholas. “Domesticating the Church: The Reuse of Urban Churches as Loft Living in the Post-Secular City.” Social and Cultural Geography 17, no. 7 (n.d.): 849–70.

Martin, Reinhold. The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Massey, Jonathan. “Buckminster Fuller’s Cybernetic Pastoral: The United States Pavilion at Expo 67.” The Journal of Architecture 21, no. 5 (July 3, 2016): 795–815. doi:10.1080/13602365.2016.1207433.

Matthews, Glenna. “Toward the Rebirth of Downtown San Jose: Postwar Sprawl and Redevelopment in a Silicon Valley City.” Pacific Historical Review 83, no. 3 (August 2016): 354–78.

Mendelsohn, Janet, and Chris Wilson, eds. Drawn to Landscape: The Pioneering Work of J .B. Jackson. Staunton, VA: George F. Thompson, 2015.

Merkel-Hess, Kate. The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China. Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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Peckham, Andrew. “Beyond Formalism: The Quiescent Art of Formal Analysis in Architecture.” The Journal of Architecture 21, no. 5 (July 3, 2016): 679–89. doi:10.1080/13602365.2016.1207441.

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