Vernacular Architecture Forum VAN March 2021

VAF’s Virtual Conference Website Now Live

Julia Griffith — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:06:29 GMT

Information about the Virtual Conference May 21-22, 2021 is now live on the website!

Save the dates! VAF’s Virtual Conference, May 21-22, 2021

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:40:00 GMT

VAF’s Virtual Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, May 21 and 22, 2021.

Friday’s events begin at 2 pm central and will include a welcome, a brief annual meeting, an awards ceremony for both 2020 and 2021 winners, a Field Work Round Table, and a San Antonio Preview.

Saturday’s paper and poster day begins at 10 am central and will include three paper sessions, one in the morning and two in the afternoon, with the poster sessions at midday.

More details on schedule and registration coming soon!

More Good News for VAF

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:35:00 GMT

by Claire W. Dempsey, VAF President, and Claudia R. Brown, VAF Treasurer

Once again this year, an exceptional benefactor has made an unrestricted gift of $100,000 to the Vernacular Architecture Forum. We are indeed fortunate to have the continued generosity of this remarkable donor who, since 2011, has bestowed $100,000 annually to the VAF.

These gifts have transformed our organization, providing the financial security and resources that underpin all our programs. VAF’s net worth has grown significantly, from under $150,000 in 2011 to over $1.8 million today. This extraordinary good fortune has suggested it was time for a review of our investment policies and of the structure of the assets that serve as our ‘endowment,’ a process currently underway within the Finance Committee. This should allow us to continue to strengthen our programs, provide administrative help to the Board, and increase our own generosity, all to improve our understanding of vernacular buildings and landscapes.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to this dear friend of VAF.

VAF and UVa Initiate Mellon-funded African American Fieldwork Program

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:30:00 GMT

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has generously awarded funding to the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the University of Virginia to sponsor and support summer field schools that will focus on African American places and engage Black communities, scholars, and students. VAF President Claire Dempsey had formed a committee to work with UVa’s principal investigator Louis Nelson to develop the format and goals of the program. The committee currently includes Carl Lounsbury, Kim Hoagland, Niya Bates, and Jim Buckley in addition to Claire and Louis, with additional members to be an announced. The group hopes to complete the initial application materials for distribution on the VAF website this Spring and select the first field school site in Fall 2021 in time for an initial fieldwork session in Summer 2022.

VAF anticipates working with three different field school teams at three different African American historical sites over the summers of 2022-2025. Each site will run two 3- or 4-week sessions spread over two summers, and the teams will work with VAF and UVa as sponsors to select a diverse cohort of field school participants from both national and local sources. Field school students will not need to have previous experience in vernacular field work, as participants will be trained in and carry out a variety of recording techniques, including traditional hand measuring, high tech imaging, and ethnographic methods.

Please spread the word about this fabulous opportunity to help us increase our diversity and broaden our knowledge about African American vernacular sites! For more information about this program, contact Louis Nelson at ln6n@virginia.edu.

Call for Editors of the Vernacular Architecture Forum Newsletter (VAN)

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:15:00 GMT

The Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) solicits letters of interest to serve as part of its Vernacular Architecture Newsletter (VAN) team of editors. The newsletter currently has openings for 1) VAN Editor; 2) Assistant Editor for News; and 3) Assistant Editor for Features. This will be an exciting opportunity to contribute to our VAF community and help VAN transition to a dynamic new format.

In a time of social distancing, digital communications are even more essential for keeping VAF members in touch and current. In recent months, an ad hoc committee has reviewed the current state of VAN and envisioned ways VAN can be redesigned and restructured to be more useful for our members, more easily integrate with all our digital communication channels, and bring in new generations to VAF. The VAF Board has approved a plan to increase VAN’s publication schedule from quarterly to monthly and to add two Assistant Editors to share the work of producing the newsletter.

Publication every month, with set deadlines for submission and publication, will improve communication and alleviate the uncertainty of publication. Going forward, information that comes to VAN editors will be immediately posted in one of four blogs on the website, currently planned to cover VAF business, other business, member news, and features. A monthly digest of blog posts will be sent to members as VAN, with expanded visual and narrative content on a quarterly basis. Eight times a year, the newsletter will be mostly text and will include news and information items from the VAF. Four times a year, the newsletter will have more images, longer features, the bibliography, and any news items.

Undertaking this work will be three editors. The VAN Editor will oversee the Assistant Editors and the collection, editing, and publishing of VAN eight times per year. The VAN Editor serves a three-year term and is also a member of the VAF Board. The Assistant Editor for Features will solicit and edit longer articles, works with the bibliographer, and oversee the collection, editing, and publishing of VAN four times per year. The Assistant Editor for News will edit/adapt and sends content to social media, coordinating with web editor. The Assistant Editors will first serve a one or two year term to establish a rotation for the three positions and will then be eligible for a three year term. The Assistant Editors will not serve on the Board. The plan is for the new VAN Editor to join the selection committee to select the Assistant Editors. All editors will begin their terms in spring 2021 by shadowing the current VAN editor, Christine Henry.

To be considered for one of these VAN editorial positions, interested parties should send letters of interest and CVs/resumes (or any questions) to VAF President Claire Dempsey at dempseyc@bu.edu. Applicants should have knowledge of the VAF and its mission regarding the built environment; excellent writing, editing, and communication skills; and facility with social media. Past digital issues of VAN are available on the VAF website.

Applications for all positions VAN Editor, Assistant Editor for Features, and Assistant Editor for News are due by April 1, 2021.

Preview #3 of Tour Sites for VAF in Texas, May 2022

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:00:00 GMT

Although this year because of the pandemic we will all gather again virtually to have our annual meeting and share wonderful research we want to make sure that everyone is planning for San Antonio in May 2022. So this is the third installment of images that preview those exciting tours. Hope to see you all there!

Our Hill Country sojourn will include an afternoon visit to the Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm, which has been well-restored by the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife. Just across the Pedernales River is LBJ’s Texas White House, definitely an extraordinary landscape, but on the south side is an excellent everyday landscape. The site includes an older house, the home of Friedrich and Emil Sauer, which began as a single room with walls of alternating logs and rock, circa 1869, but which was enlarged with three rooms of stone. A few feet away is a slightly later rock kitchen, and, across a dogtrot, a late Victorian one-story house built for Emil and Emma Beckmann circa 1915. As if this were not enough, it is surrounded by rock outbuildings and a well-preserved barn!

Meet Board Member PJ Carlino

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:30:00 GMT

I study vernacular architecture because it complements my interest in industrially produced vernacular objects. My scholarship originates in mass-produced tools and furnishings that are embedded in networks of power which are often inseparable from the surrounding space. I am interested in the complex networks of agents who shape the dynamics of race, gender, and class formation through industrial design. The study of vernacular spaces is critical to my understanding of how structural inequality is made concrete in the built environment.

As a design historian interested in the anonymous and overlooked object teaching among designers focused on innovation, I frequently must defend the applicability of my work to colleagues. VAF gives provides an opportunity to share my work with a supportive and engaging community. It is invaluable to have a large and diverse group of knowledgeable like-minded folk critique my ideas and investigations.

In addition to being a historian and educator, I am a designer and artist drawn to cultural landscapes of industry. There are few organizations where I could spend the morning touring a working industrial saw mill with two dozen friends as we did at the Philadelphia conference, and then the afternoon touring the inside and outside of worker housing, churches, and burial grounds of the surrounding community. That day, my phone was lit up by a continual stream of text messages sent between myself and friends alerting one another of sites not to be missed because they pertained to our interests. No one thought it strange as I crawled around on my hands and knees underneath the mechanical seats of a church looking for clues to their history.

I am honored to be part of the VAF community, to contribute to the body of scholarship the organization has created, and to bring my administrative and educational skills to the work of the board.

Meet Board member Daniel De Sousa

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:20:00 GMT

What are your interests in vernacular architecture?

I've been interested in everyday architecture ever since I was a kid, who spent the drives to Grandma's comparing all of the different houses we saw along the way. Unsurprisingly, my childhood dream was to become an architect, and during my high school summers I worked as a draftsman at a local firm learning all about life "on the inside." The principals trained me in the dying arts of pencil-on-vellum and hand lettering, and involved me in every kind of project that crossed the drafting table: from strip mall storefronts to dentist offices, warehouses to bakery production lines, raised ranch additions to the developer spec houses that were replacing them.

Classes at Connecticut College with my advisor (and former VAF President) Abby Van Slyck introduced me to vernacular architecture as a field of study. She opened my eyes to the ways the built environment can inform our understanding of patterns of living. It was also Abby who pointed me to historic documentation as a line of work, and reshaped the future of my entire career: in my senior year she suggested I apply to the Heritage Documentation Program's (HABS/HAER/HALS) summer program, and I've been there ever since.

In my time at HDP, I’ve spent every summer on the other side of that experience, teaching students how to document historic structures using the latest in laser scanning and digital photogrammetry combined with profile combs and pencil and paper. My work has taken me all over the country, documenting barns, hospitals, campgrounds, mid-century apartments, lighthouses, zoo enclosures, and even the Statue of Liberty.

Why are you involved in VAF?

I received a crash course in VAF in 2010, when several of my colleagues at HDP were involved in planning the Washington, DC Conference. Since it was local, I was allowed to participate on the office's dime. Two full days of architecture tours led by experts, with meals included? How could I turn that down? Even the paper sessions, I discovered, were on such widely varied topics it was hard to choose which ones to attend. And then there was the zeitgeist of the membership: the almost reverential respect toward owners who had opened their homes to us; the collegial debates in attics and cellars over the meaning of an iron nail or muntin profile; how friendly and enthusiastic everyone was to meet someone new, or to see their old friends again. By the end, I knew that I had found a tribe of “my people.”

If you have one, what is a favorite memory about VAF, and why do you want to be on the board/what do you bring to the board?

I’ve attended seven of the last ten conferences held since 2010, and each has given me the opportunity to see wonderful places, make great connections, and broaden my knowledge beyond the niche of producing architectural documentation. When I was asked if I was interested in serving on the Board, I was more than happy to give back to the organization that’s given me so much.

With my background, joining the Orlando Ridout V Fellowship Committee felt like a natural fit. I strongly believe that physically interacting with and exploring a structure is an indispensable part of learning about it. Working at HDP has given me the immense luxury of spending many weeks a year in the field, and a good chunk of that teaching the next generation of practitioners. The pandemic, unfortunately, has meant challenging times for field schools, including our own. Heritage Documentation Programs cancelled its summer program for the first time in living memory last year, and it will remain dormant in 2021. As we begin to recover, though, I hope that I can bring a useful perspective to the committee and advocate for what I consider the best part of the job.

Meet Board Member Vyta Pivo

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:10:00 GMT

My interests in vernacular architecture concern the construction of concrete infrastructure, from roads and highways to bridges and unspectacular high rises. I am curious about not only how built environments are designed, but also how the materials that go into their construction are manufactured and distributed, and how they affect natural, animal, and human bodies. This is the topic of my PhD dissertation at the George Washington University, titled “The Gospel of Concrete: American Infrastructure and Global Power.”

I was introduced to VAF by two of my mentors, Richard Longstreth, the co-chair of my dissertation, and Lisa Davidson, Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship supervisor. Richard is a giant in the field and has been involved with VAF for decades; he encouraged me to attend my first conference in Alexandria, VA in 2018. Lisa guided my HABS documentation of Paul Rudolph’s Burroughs Wellcome headquarters in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; the building has been recently demolished, but my JSAH article based on this research will be coming out later this month. Lisa's attention to detail and instruction for how to properly measure and describe buildings helped me understand that VAF is not just another conference, but an opportunity to learn and sharpen skills in observation and documentation. I joined the VAF Board of Directors as a graduate student representative to help guide the organization and to also voice an important student perspective.

My favorite memory about VAF is attending my first meeting on the Potomac. I very much enjoyed the paper sessions, but the trips along the Maryland shore completely blew me away. I felt like I was back in architecture school, traveling across diverse landscapes to document typically inaccessible buildings. And at VAF my peers came from all types of different backgrounds, including academia, historic preservation, nonprofit, and the government sectors. I really enjoyed learning alongside these folks, who soon became very close colleagues. At a time when education in architecture and design seems to lead only on a path to further precarity, it is so encouraging to see architectural preservation and documentation work thriving and at its highest standard.

Notes from the Field: Tom Leytham Documents Industrial Heritage in Watercolors

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:07:00 GMT

by Tom Leytham

HAYWARD & KIBBY MILL - TUNBRIDGE, VERMONT

In the early 19th century Tunbridge, Vermont was a one-stop shopping center. The town had a general store, livery stable, hotel, granary, grist mill, saw mill, and blacksmith shop as well as well as several covered bridges. The Spring Road part of the historic district has a 1½ story blacksmith cottage and residence, a covered bridge, grist and saw mill. The mill is the step child of the group, in the shadow of the Vermont cute village image.

But the mill is one of the most original examples of Vermont vernacular architecture –hiding in plain sight. The 1½ story grist mill was built in 1820 using locally sourced brick. In 1870, a saw mill was added by just building a new structure over the existing building – Pokeman style. The configuration was dictated by the sloping lot, in order to keep the belts vertical from the turbine through the building – with one turbine serving the grist and saw mills plus the wood shop. Restricted by the land and river, the bold addition does not overpower the modest original structure but ingeniously compliments it.

The interior is almost intact. Patterns for bull rakes hang on the wall of the woodshop. The band saw, table saw, planer, and lathe are ready for the leather drive belt to engage. The chutes, conveyors and mill stones are still hooked up and ready to make flour.

The 1911 turbines have been removes to ready the building for its next life – to generate electricity for homes in Tunbridge Village.

WOOD SHOP

https://www.tomleythamwatercolors.com/

for a video about Tom's work "Hiding in Plain Sight"

Notes from the Field: VAF Legacy Project Documents Site

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:05:00 GMT

The VAF Legacy project team here in Utah recently visited the Muir-Poulsen house, built in 1897, which sits at the base of Bell and Little Cottonwood Canyons in the Salt Lake Valley. It is a one-story Victorian Eclectic house, a central block stone house with a projecting gable. The walls are composed of a rough hewn granite block over a similar foundation with a framed roof. Folklore abounds around this house but it is thought that the stone used to build the house was pulled out of the same quarry used for the famous Salt Lake Temple by the owner and builder, James A. Muir, a noted granite quarryman, farmer and early settler in this area of southeastern Salt Lake County. The house faces east and sits near the northeast corner of a large 68-acre farmstead which includes the farm and a historic orchard associated with the Muir residence and which still produces fruit.

The team photographed the house and measured and documented the floor plans and elevations as groundwork is laid to begin renovating the house which has been vacant for a number of years. The house sits within a large natural preserve, Dimple Dell, and the Dimple Dell Preservation Commission is the group supporting the project.

Commentary: Reflections on the Gist of Vernacular Architecture

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:01:00 GMT

by XK Bromley

Using search engines or even a tangible Dictionary can leave someone more confused about what vernacular architecture is or is supposed to be when looking for answers. But what is the best way to summarize its meaning quickly? First, as far as a consensus of what Vernacular Architecture is, this may not be possible. Perspectives can change, and chances that everyone is at the same level of understanding for a concept isn't always feasible. But the following are some further thoughts beyond quick search definitions to help find its “gist”:

Building material culture creates matter and focal points that expand dialogues in our telling about space, place, and time. This telling, in part, is vernacular architecture. Some folks say that vernacular architecture's defining element is the design applied or everything but polite architecture (a theory to create a formal language for architecture to be universally enforced). Yet, vernacular architecture is not a set style or an opposite. See, vernacular architecture is an ongoing conversation (however rudimentary) about building. And what defines "building" is crucial to include when discussing Vernacular Architecture.

Long before there were blue hard hats at construction sites carrying blueprints (also known as “The Polite”), buildings' planning and organization were done and continued to be done by a wide range of individuals and partnerships. This wide range of historical, anthropological, landscape, and traditional planning is part of vernacular architecture. Vernacular architecture is not everything but does mean it is a type of communication, a language, about the planning of a building.

This communication is a significant part, often the foundation, of building art, science, and business. The structure made from a building isn't just a house to skyscrapers. It is the building of just about anything one can imagine or already have done so. Therefore, discussing what vernacular architecture is may not be such a quick answer. But the discipline of vernacular architecture allows for windows of opportunity to show light in overlooked areas. It is a guide for the past and a pathway forward.

Spring Bibliography 2021-part 1 authors A-L

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:00:00 GMT

compiled by Travis Olson

Ahlstrom, Aaron A. “‘Wealth and Beauty in Trees’: State Forestry and the Revitalization of Massachusetts’s Rural Cultural Landscape, 1904–1919.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 2 (2020): 83. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.2.0083.

Andrzejewski, Anna Vemer, “‘Selling Sunshine’: The Mackle Company’s Marketing Campaign to Build Retirement and Vacation Communities in South Florida, 1945–1975.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 2 (2020): 59. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.2.0059.

Auji, Hala. “As the Dust (Un)Settles: Consuming Disaster in Beirut’s Reconstruction.” PLATFORM (blog), October 5, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/as-the-dust-unsettles-consuming-disaster-in-beiruts-reconstruction.

Banerjee, Tridib. In the Images of Development: City Design in the Global South. Urban and Industrial Environments. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2021.

Barber, Daniel A. “Ventopenings: Conditioning in Pandemic Times. Part 1—Built In.” PLATFORM (blog), November 9, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/ventopenings-conditioning-in-pandemic-times-part-1built-in.

———. “Ventopenings: Conditioning in Pandemic Times. Part 2—Air Change.” PLATFORM (blog), November 16, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/ventopenings-conditioning-in-pandemic-times-part-2air-change.

Barber, Daniel A., Ahu Aydogan, Dorit Aviv, and Marta Gutman. “Ventopenings: Conditioning in Pandemic Times. Part 3—A Conversation about Air Quality.” PLATFORM (blog), December 14, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/ventopenings-conditioning-in-pandemic-times-part-3a-conversation-about-air-quality.

Beaven, Brad. “‘One of the Toughest Streets in the World’: Exploring Male Violence, Class and Ethnicity in London’s Sailortown, c. 1850–1880.” Social History 46, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2021.1850052.

Berque, Augustin and Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon. Thinking through Landscape. London ; New York: Routledge, 2013.

Beyond the West: New Global Architecture. Berlin: Gestalten, 2020.

Biuk, Siara. “Shell Button-Making on the Delmarva Peninsula, ca. 1930s-1990s.” Northeast Historical Archaeology 47, no. 1 (January 29, 2021). https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol47/iss1/3.

Bond, Carly. “Restoring a Cast-Iron Secret at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology 51, no. 2/3 (2020): 5–12. https://doi.org/10.2307/26943422.

Brook, Richard. “The National Computing Centre: ‘White Heat,’ Modernization, and Postwar Manchester.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 438–58. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.4.438.

Brown, Jayna. Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Brown, Thomas J., and Svea Larson. “Swedish Migration, Naval Militarism, and Industrial Modernity: The John Ericsson Memorial in Washington, DC.” Winterthur Portfolio 54, no. 2–3 (June 1, 2020): 117–48. https://doi.org/10.1086/711868.

Bryant, Chad Carl. Prague: Belonging in the Modern City. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021.

Buttenwieser, Ann L. The Floating Pool Lady: A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City’s Waterfront. Ithaca [New York]: Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.

Cannady, Lauren R. “Thought Patterns in the Space of an Eighteenth-Century French Curiosity Cabinet.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 286–307. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.286.

Carr, Sara Jensen. Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape. Richmond: University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Carso, Kerry Dean. Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture. Ithaca [New York]: Cornell University Press, 2021.

Carter, Schuyler S. “The Lost Legacy of the Forgotten HBCU.” PLATFORM (blog), February 15, 2021. https://www.platformspace.net/home/the-lost-legacy-of-the-forgotten-hbcu.

Chiarappa, Michael J. “The Gyre Narrows, Again: Vernacular Buildings, Vernacular Landscapes, and Environmental History.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 2 (2020): 1. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.2.0001.

Chiu, Chen-Yu, Philip Goad, Peter Myers, and Cem Yılgın. “Ideas and Ideals in Jørn Utzon’s Courtyard Houses: Dwelling, Nature, and Chinese Architecture.” The Journal of Architecture 25, no. 5 (July 3, 2020): 513–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2020.1788115.

Conklin, Emily. “Reclaiming the Red Hook Waterfront.” PLATFORM (blog), November 9, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/reclaiming-the-red-hook-waterfront.

De Almeida, Décio Otoni. “A Building without Doors: Vilanova Artigas and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism Building at the University of São Paulo.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 80, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 85–101. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.1.85.

Deutsch, Nathaniel, and Michael Casper. A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

Dodson, Michael S. “The Architectural Legacy of Kuldip Singh (1934-2020).” PLATFORM (blog), January 18, 2021. https://www.platformspace.net/home/the-architectural-legacy-of-kuldip-singh-1934-2020.

Engelberg, Isaac. “Salesforce Park’s Sleight of Hand.” PLATFORM (blog), October 19, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/salesforce-parks-sleight-of-hand.

Fair, Alistair. Modern Playhouses: An Architectural History of Britain’s New Theatres, 1945-1985. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Fowler, Jonathan, Andre Robichaud, and Colin Laroque. “Dating the Morris House: A Study of Heritage Value in Nova Scotia.” Northeast Historical Archaeology 47, no. 1 (January 29, 2021). https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol47/iss1/11.

Frank, Stephanie. “Industrial Networks and Urban Development: Kansas City’s Film Row District and National Film Distribution.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 1 (2020): 46. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.1.0046.

Franklin, Alex, and Nora Schuurman. “Aging Animal Bodies: Horse Retirement Yards as Relational Spaces of Liminality, Dwelling and Negotiation.” Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 7 (September 2, 2019): 918–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1392592.

Gallagher, Sean. “The Prison of Public Works: Enslaved People and State Formation at Virginia’s Chiswell Lead Mines, 1775–1786.” Journal of Southern History 86, no. 4 (2020): 777–804. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2020.0239.

Giesen, James C. “The View from Rose Hill: Environmental, Architectural, and Cultural Recovery on a Piedmont Landscape.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 2 (2020): 19. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.2.0019.

Grama, Emanuela. “A Deconstruction Story: Property, Memory, and Temporality in a Transylvanian Village.” History and Anthropology 31, no. 5 (October 19, 2020): 618–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2020.1830385.

Gutman, Marta, Matthew Gordon Lasner, and Kishwar Rizvi. “Voting in the Age of Pandemic.” PLATFORM (blog), November 2, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/voting-in-the-age-of-pandemic.

Hall, Valerie. “‘Wild Neat Cattle…’: Using Domesticated Livestock to Engineer Colonial Landscapes in Seventeenth-Century Maryland.” Northeast Historical Archaeology 47, no. 1 (January 29, 2021). https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol47/iss1/8.

Hartley, Roger C. Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021.

Headley, Gwyn ; Meulenkamp, Wim. The English Folly: The Edifice Complex. Oxford: Historic England Publishing, 2020.

Hein, Carola, and Dirk Schubert. “Resilience and Path Dependence: A Comparative Study of the Port Cities of London, Hamburg, and Philadelphia.” Journal of Urban History 47, no. 2 (March 2021): 389–419. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144220925098.

Hemphill, C. Dallett, Rodney Hessinger, and Daniel K. Richter. Philadelphia Stories: People and Their Places in Early America. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

Herscher, Andrew. “The Right to the Creative City in the Era of #blacklivesmatter.” PLATFORM (blog), February 8, 2021. https://www.platformspace.net/home/the-right-to-the-creative-city-in-the-era-of-blacklivesmatter.

Hubbard, Phil. “Enthusiasm, Craft and Authenticity on the High Street: Micropubs as ‘Community Fixers.’” Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 6 (July 24, 2019): 763–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1380221.

Hultzsch, Anne. “Sharing Knowledge, Promoting the Built: The Origins of the Architectural Magazine in Nineteenth-Century Europe.” The Journal of Architecture 25, no. 7 (October 2, 2020): 799–808. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2020.1841940.

Ignaccolo, Carmelo. “How Past Epidemics Gave New Public Spaces to Cities.” PLATFORM (blog). Accessed March 21, 2021. https://www.platformspace.net/home/how-past-epidemics-gave-new-public-spaces-to-cities.

Janesko, Sarah. “Cultivating Historic Farms: A Study of Late-Nineteenth Century Maryland Farms.” Northeast Historical Archaeology 47, no. 1 (January 29, 2021). https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol47/iss1/5.

Kezer, Zeynep. “The Projections of a Roof: An Ottoman Armenian Family Residence in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Turkey.” PLATFORM (blog), November 23, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/the-projections-of-a-roof-an-ottoman-armenian-family-residence-in-nineteenth-century-eastern-turkey.

Khorshid, Reem. “Experiencing the Sounds and Silences of Cairo.” PLATFORM (blog), October 26, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/experiencing-the-sounds-and-silences-of-cairo.

Kingwell, Mark. The Ethics of Architecture. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Kroessler, Jeffrey A. Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb. Empire state editions. New York, New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.

Kuutma, Kristin, and Aet Annist. “Home and Heritage out of Place: The Disjunction of Exile.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 26, no. 10 (October 2, 2020): 942–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1714695.

Lahiji, Nadir. Architecture or Revolution. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Littmann, William. “Viewpoint: Walk This Way: Reconsidering Walking for the Study of Cultural Landscapes.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 1 (2020): 3. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.1.0003.

Spring Bibliography 2021-part 2 authors M-Z

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:59:00 GMT

Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth. Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York City. New York: Empire State Editions, 2021.

Margalith, Dana. “Memory Enabling Dwelling: Remembrance and Amnesia in Louis I. Kahn’s Design for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.” The Journal of Architecture 25, no. 5 (July 3, 2020): 602–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2020.1791931.

Martin, Laura Renata. “Fighting for the Working-Class City.” Radical History Review 2021, no. 139 (January 1, 2021): 145-65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8822651.

McEvoy, Maura, Basha Burwell, and Kathleen Hackett. The Main House. New York: Vendome Press, 2021.

McMurry, Sally Ann. “The American Farm Pond.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 2 (2020): 39. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.2.0039.

Moran, Dominique, and Tom Disney. “‘It’s a Horrible, Horrible Feeling’: Ghosting and the Layered Geographies of Absent–Presence in the Prison Visiting Room.” Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 5 (June 13, 2019): 692–709. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1373303.

Moses, Kelema Lee. “Lessons from Hawai‘i.” PLATFORM (blog), October 19, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/lessons-from-hawaii.

Nelson, Louis P. “Preserve (Some of) the Wreckage.” PLATFORM (blog), January 25, 2021. https://www.platformspace.net/home/preserve-some-of-the-wreckage.

Norwood, Bryan E. “Whiteness and the Architectural Profession in the United States.” PLATFORM (blog), September 21, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/whiteness-and-the-architectural-profession-in-the-united-states.

Ore, Janet. “Viewpoint: Landscape Disputed: What Environmental History Can Show Us.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 2 (2020): 5. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.2.0005.

Ornelas-Higdon, Julia. “Agricultural Citizenship and the German Winemakers of Los Angeles County, 1853–1891.” Pacific Historical Review 89, no. 4 (September 29, 2020): 465–99. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2020.89.4.465.

O’Rourke, Kathryn E. “Houston Is Almost All Right: Postmodernism on the Texas Gulf Coast.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 308–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.308.

Pabón-Charneco, Arleen. Architecture History, Theory and Preservation: Prehistory to the Middle Ages, 2021. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429441356.

Pearson, Lynn F. England’s Co-Operative Movement: An Architectural History, 2020. http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=6389793.

Pivo, Vyta. “‘PhDs among the Possums’: Paul Rudolph’s Burroughs Wellcome Headquarters and the Transformation of Laboratory Architecture.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 80, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 68–84. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.1.68.

Platt, Sarah E. “Urban Dialectics, Misrememberings, and Memory-Work: The Halsey Map of Charleston, South Carolina.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 24, no. 4 (December 2020): 989–1014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-019-00533-8.

Rault, Jasmine. “Window Walls and Other Tricks of Transparency: Digital, Colonial, and Architectural Modernity.” American Quarterly 72, no. 4 (2020): 937–60. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2020.0053.

Reinberger, Mark. “Research Notes: Using Dendrochronology to Date First-Period Houses in the Georgia Backcountry.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 1 (2020): 65. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.1.0065.

Rosen, Robert N. A Short History of Charleston. Revised and Expanded edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021.

Rotramel, Ariella. “Discarding Homes: New York City Public Housing and Single Mother-Led Households (1963–2016).” Women’s History Review 30, no. 2 (February 23, 2021): 320–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2020.1757884.

Rowen, Jonah. “Architecture and Slavery.” PLATFORM (blog), September 14, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/architecture-and-slavery.

Ruberto, Laura E., and Joseph Sciorra. “‘Columbus might be dwarfed to obscurity’: Italian Americans’ Engagement with Columbus Monuments in a Time of Decolonization,” Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement: Migrants and Monuments, Ed. Sabine Marschall. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 61-93.

Ruberto, Laura E., and Joseph Sciorra. “Toppling Columbus, Recasting Italian Americans,” Process History, the blog of the Organization of American Historians, The Journal of American History, and The American Historian: July 23, 2020. http://www.processhistory.org/rubertosciorra-toppling-columbus/

Sachs, Avagail. “The Garden in the Machine: Architecture and Landscape in the Tennessee Valley.” PLATFORM (blog), September 28, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/the-garden-in-the-machine-architecture-and-landscape-in-the-tennessee-valley.

Saffarini, Hassan. “Rehabilitation of Exterior Stone Masonry at the Union Station Head House in Toronto.” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology 51, no. 2/3 (2020): 57–64. https://doi.org/10.2307/26943428.

Sandler, Maya C. “Negotiating Care.” Radical History Review 2021, no. 139 (January 1, 2021): 166–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8822663.

Saumarez Smith, Otto. Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Schleuning, Sarah, Cindi Strauss, Sarah Horne, Martha MacLeod, and Berry Lowden Perkins. Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

Schmidt, Freek. Passion and Control: Dutch Architectural Culture of the Eighteenth Century. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Schreffler, Michael. “A Triumphal Arch for the Count of Moctezuma: Architectural Poetics and Artistic Competition at the Cathedral of Mexico City, ca. 1670–1700.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 414–37. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.4.414.

Scott, Darius. “Oral History and Emplacement in ‘Nowhere at All:’ The Role of Personal and Family Narratives in Rural Black Community-Building.” Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 8 (October 13, 2019): 1094–1113. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1413205.

Seggerman, Alex Dika. “Umrah in Atlantic City: The Representation of Muslim-American Space in Ramy.” PLATFORM (blog), December 7, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/umrah-in-atlantic-city-the-representation-of-muslim-american-space-in-ramy.

Sen, Arijit. “Stories from the Flatlands.” PLATFORM (blog), September 28, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/stories-from-the-flatlands.

Sharp. “Research Notes: New Discoveries in Old Sources: A Neglected Ledger Reveals the Persons and Processes of Building in Late-Colonial Virginia.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 1 (2020): 79. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.1.0079.

Smith, Ryan K. “Disappearing the Enslaved: The Destruction and Recovery of Richmond’s Second African Burial Ground.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 1 (2020): 17. https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.1.0017.

Snyder, Robert W. “Looking for Cree Country, Finding Mushkegowuk.” PLATFORM (blog), February 1, 2021. https://www.platformspace.net/home/looking-for-cree-country-finding-mushkegowuk.

Spady, Matthew. The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020.

Sparke, Penny. Nature inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

Speer, Jessie. “Urban Makeovers, Homeless Encampments, and the Aesthetics of Displacement.” Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 4 (May 4, 2019): 575–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1509115.

Stewart, Alec R. “Visible But Unseen: The Material Cultures of Los Angeles’s Indoor Swap Meets.” PLATFORM (blog), February 15, 2021. https://www.platformspace.net/home/visible-but-unseen-the-material-cultures-of-los-angeless-indoor-swap-meets.

Street, Sean. The Sound of a Room: Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Strunk, Christopher, and Margaret Richardson. “Cultivating Belonging: Refugees, Urban Gardens, and Placemaking in the Midwest, U.S.A.” Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 6 (July 24, 2019): 826–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1386323.

Sugarman, Joe. “The House That Hutchinson Built: Preserving a Touchstone to Edisto Island’s Black History.” Preservation Magazine, Winter 2021. https://savingplaces.org/stories/the-house-that-hutchinson-built-preserving-a-touchstone-to-edisto-islands-black-history#.YFbAVGhKjIU.

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Thabet, Andrea. “‘From Sagebrush to Symphony.’” Pacific Historical Review 89, no. 4 (September 29, 2020): 557–99. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2020.89.4.557.

Tippey, Brett. “Richard Neutra in Spain: Consumerism, Competition, and U.S. Air Force Housing.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 80, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 48–67. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.1.48.

Tomich, Dale W., Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and Carlos Venegas Fornias. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

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Urban, Florian. “Bottom-Up Postmodernism: Unauthorized Church Architecture in Socialist Poland.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 459–77. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.4.459.

Verpoest, Luc, Leen Engelen, Jan Schmidt, and Pieter Uyttenhove, eds. Revival After the Great War Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2021. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/80816/.

Vitale, Patrick. Nuclear Suburbs: Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Vuic, Jason. The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

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Walker, Nathaniel. Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Warren, Chris. “The Rich History of 5 Top Ski Towns.” Preservation Magazine, Winter 2021. https://savingplaces.org/stories/the-rich-history-of-5-top-ski-towns#.YFbATmhKjIU.

Watson, Sophie. “Liquid Passions: Bodies, Publics and City Waters.” Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 7 (September 2, 2019): 960–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1404121.

Yarker, Sophie. “Reconceptualising Comfort as Part of Local Belonging: The Use of Confidence, Commitment and Irony.” Social & Cultural Geography 20, no. 4 (May 4, 2019): 534–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1373301.

Jennifer Baughn co-authors Buildings of Mississippi book to be published in May 2021

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:20:00 GMT

In May 2021, UVA Press will publish the Buildings of Mississippi co-authored by VAF board member Jennifer V. O. Baughn, Michael W. Fazio, and Mary Warren Miller.

This guidebook surveys a range of such locations, from Native American mounds and villages to plantation outbuildings that bear witness to the lives of enslaved African Americans, from twentieth-century enclaves built for sawmill workers and oil tycoons to neighborhoods that bolstered black Mississippians during segregation, and from the vernacular streetscapes of small towns to modern architecture in Greenville, Meridian, Jackson, and Biloxi. In the pages of this latest volume in the celebrated Buildings of the United States series, newly redesigned in a more user-friendly format, readers will come to know the history of close to 600 sites, illustrated by 250 photographs (most in full color) and 29 maps, including such wide-ranging places as Longwood and the Museum of African American History and Culture in Natchez, Vicksburg National Military Park, Winterville Mounds, the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, the Neshoba County Jail and Courthouse, the University of Mississippi and William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak in Oxford, and the homes of Medgar and Myrlie Evers and Eudora Welty in Jackson.

This is a volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the Society of Architectural Historians

Andrew Dolkart to be honored with NYLC Moses award in May

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:15:00 GMT

In May 2021, Andrew S. Dolkart will be presented with the New York Landmarks Conservancy's Lucy G. Moses Award for Preservation Leadership, the organization's highest honor for outstanding preservation efforts.

VAF 2010 Tour of Bowie Featured in Documentary on MPT

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:12:00 GMT

Maryland Public Television (MPT) recently posted a documentary "Tales of Belair at Bowie" (available for viewing on its website) about one of Maryland's first planned communities, and just a few minutes into the film features VAF member Jaime Jacobs leading the VAF tour of the community in 2010.

Tom Leytham received a commission for six watercolors of Rumford, Maine

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:11:00 GMT

Six watercolor vignettes of Rumford, Maine by Tom Leytham have been commissioned for a report “The River Valley” published by the American Roundtable, sponsored by the Architectural League of New York and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation. The comprehensive report was edited by Aaron Cayer PhD Assistant Professor of Architectural History, University of New Mexico, and Kerri Arsenault, environmental writer and editor.

For more of Tom's work, see his website.

Myron Stachiw contributes to Encyclopedia of the Vernacular Architecture of the World

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:10:00 GMT

Myron Stachiw, Independent Scholar and historical consultant, contributed several entries on Ukrainian vernacular architecture, including "Ukraine-Cultures and Habitats," "Ukrainian Churches," "Ukrainian Carpathian Region-Cultures and Habitats," "Crimea and southern oblasts-Cultures and Habitats," Podilia-Cultures and Habitats," "Slobozhanshchyna-Cultures and Habitats," and "Ukrainian vernacular architecture of the northern Great Plains, North America- Cultures and Habitats" in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Vernacular Architecture of the World, 2nd edition, ed. Marcel Vellinga (London, UK: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021). Overall, the encyclopedia will feature 3,000 illustrated entries written by the world’s leading scholars of vernacular architecture and material culture.

Amber Wiley Shares Her Research at UPenn and Contributes to Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:05:00 GMT

On March 4th Amber gave an evening talk sponsored by the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. Her presentation re-examined the legacy and impact of the work of the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation (ABC) in Washington, DC.

Amber was also one of the numerous contributors to the recently published Architectural Guide: Sub-Saharan Africa edited by Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai. Her essay, “Firmitas, Utilitas, Profectus: The Architecture of Exploitation in Ghana,” covers the history and evolution of Elmina and Cape Coast Castle in Ghana.

Two Grant Opportunities with NPS due March 31, 2021

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:45:00 GMT

The NPS’s Underrepresented Communities Grant Program (URC) is now accepting applications for competitive grants. Since 2014, the NPS has awarded almost $3 million in grants to diversify the nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. Grant-supported projects include surveys and inventories of historic properties associated with communities underrepresented in the National Register, as well as the development of new nominations to the National Register.

The National Park Service’s (NPS) Historically Black Colleges & Universities Grant Program (HBCU) is now accepting applications for competitive grants. The HBCU Preservation Grant Program exists to document, preserve, and stabilize structures on HBCU campuses that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places either individually or as contributing to a National Register or National Historic Landmark historic district.

Applications for both programs will be due March 31, 2021.

Registration Open for SAH Virtual Conference April 13-17, 2021

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:30:00 GMT

The 2021 Virtual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians will bring scholars, practitioners, professionals, and students in architectural history and related fields together online to share new research on the history of the built environment, engage in thought-provoking conversations, and connect with colleagues from around the world. The Virtual Conference will take place between Tuesday, April 13, and Saturday, April 17, and will include 36 paper sessions with live Q&A, a social hour, the SAH Business Meeting, a pre-conference workshop, keynote talks, the annual SAH Awards Ceremony, and the SAH Montréal Seminar. Registrants receive 30-day access to watch recorded paper presentations. In addition, SAH will present a series of free roundtable discussions throughout the month of May. Register at https://www.sah.org/2021-virtual-conference.

SESAH call for papers for conference in Natchez, MS due May 1, 2021

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:15:00 GMT

The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) is now accepting paper abstracts for the 2021 Annual Conference, to be held in Natchez, Mississippi, September 29—October 2, 2021, and co-hosted by Historic Natchez Foundation, Natchez National Historical Park, and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The paper sessions will be held on Thursday and Friday, September 30 and October 1. Please submit paper and/or session proposals via Qualtrics at: SESAH 2021 Paper and Session Proposals by May 1, 2021.

For the full call for papers and important dates, see the SESAH conference page.

Center for Preservation of Civil Rights Sites launches new website

Christine R Henry — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:00:00 GMT

The Center for the Preservation of Civil Right Sites has just launched a brand new website. The website features a curated list of searchable resources about black heritage and the built environment. Also – we have an ongoing initiative Picturing Civil Rights, a crowd-sourced digital exhibition commemorating Civil Rights sites in the vernacular landscape. This is now an Instagram account as well @civilrightsites.