Vernacular Architecture Forum VAN Summer 2020

VAF Received Mellon Grant for Field School

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:06:40 GMT

VAF is thrilled to announce the launch of a new field school program dedicated to documenting threatened African American cultural landscapes. In partnership with the University of Virginia, VAF has received support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to document and interpret African American buildings and landscapes, training a new generation of students in conducting the fieldwork necessary for documenting suppressed architectural histories, while involving the relevant communities in the process.

The Mellon grant will fund three different field schools launched in three consecutive summers; the schools will differ in location and type of architectural content, but all will contribute to the goal of examining architectural relevance to social history. Louis Nelson, the PI for the grant, and Claire Dempsey, president of VAF, will head an advisory committee currently composed of Niya Bates, Jim Buckley, Kim Hoagland, and Carl Lounsbury, and intended to be expanded. The committee will review proposals from potential field-school leadership teams comprised of scholars familiar with a range of field documentation strategies, expertise in African American history and culture, and local community partnership.

Drawing from VAF’s traditional strength in documentation and expanding to engage best practices of mutuality in community partnership, the students will learn traditional and new fieldwork strategies, from making measured drawings and taking photographs to using the latest digital-capture and visualization techniques. They also will learn ethical guidelines and community engagement methods for working with residents in collecting oral histories.

The program assumes that each field school will run for two field seasons and have a third season to complete a research report and the public presentation/dissemination of the work. The committee will begin taking applications in the late summer of 2021 with the expected launch of the first program in the summer of 2022.

“Standing at the heart of this proposal is the assumption that architectural historians have an important opportunity and responsibility to engage the contested histories of race in America,” Nelson argued in the application to Mellon. “This series of summer programs will provide an important catalyst for the fields of historic preservation, and for social justice scholars who endeavor to uncover suppressed and erased histories of marginalized people, as we train the next generation of scholars and practitioners in the fieldwork techniques that characterize Vernacular Architecture Forum’s close study of the built environment.”

This winter, the VAF website will upload a page with more detailed information about this initiative, including how to develop a proposal to direct a field school.

VAF Conducts First Online Election

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT

One of the important tasks that VAF accomplishes at its annual meeting is voting on board members. This year the annual meeting, like our papers session, was held virtually. Thanks to the tireless work of many, VAF also held our elections electronically, and below is the slate of new board members:

Executive Committee

Second Vice President: Kim Hoagland, Michigan Technological University (2022)

Secretary Secretary: Paula Mohr, Independent Historian (2025)

President-elect: James Buckley, University of Oregon

New board members to serve 2020-2023

Vyta Baselice, Graduate Student, George Washington University

P.J. Carlino, The New School/Parsons

Daniel De Sousa, Heritage Documentation Programs, National Park Service

Philip Herrington, James Madison University

Heather Barrett, Maryland Historical Trust has also been elected to fulfill the remainder of Jobie Hill's vacated spot on the board through 2021

Congratulations to the new board!

Call for Papers and Posters VAF 2021 Annual Conference, due November 10

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:55:00 GMT

The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper and poster proposals for its 42nd Annual Conference, Vernacular Landscapes of San Antonio and Central Texas, May 19 to May 22, 2021 in San Antonio, Texas. The paper and poster sessions will be on Saturday, May 22. Papers may address topics relating to vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide and how people use these sites. Submissions on all relevant topics are welcome. We encourage papers focusing on vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes of Texas, as well as issues of displacement, migration, acculturation of immigrants and natives, revival architecture, and peoples in slavery and freedom in borderlands.

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers should be analytical rather than descriptive, and no more than twenty minutes in length. Proposals for complete sessions are welcome. 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 your proposal is being submitted as part of a complete session. Please include the paper title, author’s name, email address, and 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 are expected to attend the entire conference. Speakers must register by March 1, 2021, or their paper will be withdrawn. Please do not submit a proposal if you are not committed to attending the conference and delivering your paper on Saturday, May 22, 2021.

If your 2020 paper proposal for San Antonio was accepted and you did not participate in the virtual event after the conference postponement, you must resubmit if you wish to give a paper in 2021.

THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS IS NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The proposals and c.v. should be emailed as a PDF attachment to the papers committee. All proposals received will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your paper within one week of its submission, please contact Papers Committee chair Sally McMurry.

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 received a degree in 2020 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 proposal 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.

CALL FOR POSTERS

VAF 2021 San Antonio also will host the annual poster session to showcase recently completed research and works-in-progress. Students and emerging scholars are particularly encouraged to submit. The poster proposal may address any topic relating to vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide as described in the first paragraph of this document.

Proposals should include a title, proposal (no more than 200 words), and a one-page c.v. Accepted presenters will be expected to follow general guidelines regarding poster dimensions but must design, print, and present their posters at the conference. If your 2020 poster proposal for San Antonio was accepted and you did not participate in the virtual event after the conference postponement, you must resubmit if you wish to present a poster in 2021. If you have any questions about the posters session, please contact Posters Committee chair Phil Gruen.

THE DEADLINE FOR POSTER PROPOSALS IS NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The proposals and c.v. should be emailed as a PDF attachment to the posters committee. All proposals received will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your poster within one week of its submission, please contact Posters Committee chair Phil Gruen.

COVID-19: We recognize that COVID-19 makes all plans uncertain. We hope that the pandemic will have subsided by next May, but if it has not we will be in touch with presenters regarding alternate conference plans.

GENERAL INFORMATION: For general information about the San Antonio conference, please visit the VAF website or contact Michelle Weaver Jones, VAF Conference Planner.

Call for Nominations: Abbott Lowell Cummings Award due December 15

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:50:00 GMT

The Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, named after the founding president of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, is awarded annually to the book that has made the most significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes. In judging the nominated works, 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 2019 through December 2020 are eligible for consideration. Edited collections of previously published materials are not eligible.

In the past five years, the following books have received the Cummings Award:

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide, by C.J. Alvarez (University of Texas Press)
Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens in the West, by Christian Tagsold (Penn Press)
California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage, by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (University of Minnesota Press)
Architecture and Empire in Jamaica, by Louis Nelson (Yale University Press)
Building Zion: The Material World of the Mormon Settlement, by Thomas Carter (University of Minnesota Press)

Please send your nominations to cummingsaward@vafweb.org by December 15, 2020.

More information is available at: http://www.vafweb.org/Cummings-Award

Available Funds! VAF's Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:40:00 GMT

Funds for field schools, fieldwork related to scholarly research, and field-based continuing education are still available in 2020 through the Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship. Although the Ridout Fellowship is well utilized by field school directors and students attending various programs, there are several other funding opportunities with this award. Because so many field schools had to cancel sessions this year due to the COVID pandemic, we wanted to highlight the other categories in which this fellowship can be immensely helpful to both students and professionals. Students may also apply to assist with research and fieldwork for the preparation of a thesis or dissertation, and practicing professionals and scholars may apply for continuing education as related to fieldwork or for actual fieldwork that compliments archival research.

Funding categories include:

1) Field school directors (VAF members) may apply for grants of up to $1,000 to support their programs and/or provide financial aid to participants;

2) Students participating in field schools or other training opportunities may apply for stipends of up to $500 to attend such programs (prior VAF membership not required);

3) VAF members may apply for grants up to $500 to support continuing education and professional training activities;

4) VAF members may apply for grants of up to $1,000 for support of fieldwork activities related to the pursuit of academic degrees;

5) VAF members may apply for grants of up to $1,000 to support fieldwork activities not related to fulfillment of academic degree requirements.

Please take advantage of this opportunity! For more information, see: https://www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org/Ridout-Fellowship

Call for Nominations: VAF Advocacy Award 2021 due January 4, 2021

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:30:00 GMT

The Vernacular Architecture Forum seeks nominations for the 2021 VAF Advocacy Award. The application deadline is January 4, 2021.

The VAF Advocacy Award recognizes exemplary efforts and achievements on behalf of the vernacular built heritage. The award honors individuals and groups for exceptional contributions toward the interpretation, appreciation, and protection of vernacular buildings and cultural landscapes and recognizes outstanding initiative, commitment, and action to promote and protect vernacular resources. The award may be made in recognition of a specific effort or a long-term record. Awardee will be given two full registrations to the VAF conference and a certificate of excellence.

Eligibility

Any public or private entity or individual in North America may be nominated.

Nominations

Nominations should include the following:

1. A summary paragraph of the nominee’s advocacy effort or highlights of the nominee’s long-term advocacy work.

2. A 1000-word narrative that explains how the nominee’s work has contributed to the appreciation and protection of vernacular buildings and/or cultural landscapes. This narrative should include information about the vernacular resources and their history that were the object of the nominee’s advocacy efforts, emphasizing the public outreach—such as curricula, print media, websites, social media, and public speaking—that is the basis for the nomination.

3. A description of people and organization partners that contributed to the advocacy effort.

4. For advocacy over a career, a timeline or chronology noting the highlights of the nominee’s advocacy.

5. Images of the vernacular resources that were the focus of the advocacy effort and

events that contributed to the effort and links to websites or other relevant digital outreach developed for the nominated project.

Submissions

Please submit nomination materials electronically in a single zip file OR as a link to a single downloadable file on a cloud drive to advocacy@vafweb.org. Should the file size exceed 50MB, please communicate with us at the same address. If you must send a paper or hard copy of your nomination and its supporting documentation, please email us so that we may make alternate arrangements.

Hard copies should be sent to:

Carter L. Hudgins

70 Bull Street

Charleston, SC 29401

The application deadline for 2021 VAF Advocacy Award is January 4, 2021.

B&L Announces New Editors

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:30:00 GMT

After a fruitful search, Buildings & Landscapes: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum is pleased to announce two new members of its editorial team: Rachel Leibowitz and Michael J. Chiarappa. Michael will replace Carl Lounsbury beginning next spring as the journal's co-editor, to serve with Lydia Mattice Brandt. Rachel will step in for our current book review editors, Andrew Johnston and Jessica Ellen Sewell, next spring. Thank you to Lydia Mattice Brandt, Claire Dempsey, Cynthia Falk, and Brian Goldstein for serving on the editorial search committee.

Michael J. Chiarappa received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. He is co-author of Fish for All: An Oral History of Multiple Claims and Divided Sentiment on Lake Michigan (2003), co-editor of Nature’s Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and its Environmental Thresholds (2012) and the author of articles focusing on vernacular architecture and landscapes, and marine environmental history. A graduate of the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, he has worked with museums and government agencies on maritime-related programming, including the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Park Service. A former board member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, he serves on the editorial board of Buildings & Landscapes.

Rachel Leibowitz is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a co-director of its Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation. Her current research projects examine the popularity of “the Japanese style” in midcentury residential design, the development of Chicago’s water filtration plants, and “the Lincoln elm” planted at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois. Before relocating to Syracuse in 2018, Rachel served for five years as the Division Head of the Illinois State Historic Preservation Office and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. She has taught courses in the history of architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently serves on the board of the Preservation Association of Central New York and is a past board member of both the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation and the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

VAF-NE Annual Meeting November 7, registration open

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:05:00 GMT

The VAF-NE Chapter Annual Meeting, scheduled for Saturday, 7 November 2020 will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting. The Annual Meeting Conference will run from 9:20 am to about 1:50 pm Eastern Standard Time.

The program of presentations, as originally planned for April 2020, remains the same, but the length of the day is shorter as there will be no extended lunch break but rather just one short break mid-day. This will allow for a shorter day while maintaining the same content. The papers will be pre-recorded, but each speaker will be introduced live before each presentation. A live question-and-answer session will follow each presentation.

You can find the list of presentations at VAF-NE Conference Schedule.

To sign up for the program, please go to the VAF website events page.

The registration fee is $10.00. Registration is open to all, but non-members will need to make a free account here first. For those who registered for the conference last spring we will contact you separately.

REGISTRATION CLOSES NOVEMBER 6

We look forward to an exciting day and hope that you can join us.

Field Notes: Challenges in Utah

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:00:00 GMT

by Alison Stone, Utah-VAF Legacy Project Coordinator

Wednesday, July 8, members of the Utah-VAF Legacy Project met to document a building on a ranch in Goshen, Utah. We came with masks, gloves, gel and wipes in homage to the new normal of measured drawing during a pandemic. The building was already known to some members of the group because it is a wonderful example of a Utah pioneer adobe home and unique in its Italianate style. The impetus for us assembling at the property was the owner of the ranch, Anna-Marie, who is very attached to the building and has dreams of stabilizing or even restoring it.

When we arrived at the ranch, we were disheartened to see the state of deterioration the building was in. Seeing the house through our eyes, Anna-Marie, spoke about how she regretted not starting the process earlier. Her family has owned the ranch for 85 years and the building has always been there so she, like many owners in the same situation, didn’t feel the urgency to get started on saving it. The house is surrounded by a horse corral and over the years the horses have licked the corner adobe bricks for the minerals in the clay. More fences were built to keep them away which made access for our documentation purposes challenging. In recent years, the deterioration has progressed exponentially: an entire façade of the building has collapsed leaving a pile of adobe bricks, the interior staircase is now completely exposed and the landing from the top of the stairs is lying on the ground.

According to Cory Jensen, Utah National Register Coordinator, there are no records of the history of this building. Everyone is depending on the owner to fill in its story. Anna-Marie has started reaching out to local families she believes were connected with the ranch before her family. She was kind enough to forward emails to me from the Trotter family. Mr. Trotter wrote about a four room house built by his great grandfather, the Mormon Bishop of Goshen, William Price for his second wife, Mary Ann Gardner. As a bride, Mary Ann didn’t like living in the same house with the first wife so the Bishop built her a house in 1881.^{^[1]} However, Mr. Trotter’s email is vague as to location and describes the house being on 5 acres or half a city block. Anna-Marie’s house is outside the current town of Goshen.

An alternative story of the building comes from Anna-Marie’s family; that it was used as a stagecoach station for overnight guests. The current floor plan of the building would support this: first floor with a foyer and one large room and a back closet for storage, second floor with a hall and three small bedrooms. There were two types of stations which served stagecoaches: swing and home. The former was for quick stops to stretch your legs and the later served food and housed people overnight. My cursory search of stagecoach routes from Salt Lake City show them going directly to California in a westerly route and not towards Goshen (southwest). However, the Mormon Trail to California was built in the 1840s to go from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles via Southern Utah and Las Vegas. My guess is that there could have been stagecoaches using this route in the later 1800s. Modern day I-15 closely follows the path of the old trail.

Our day of measured drawing highlights some of the challenges facing historic preservation agencies and families who own historic sites. So many questions about places evade answers through lack of any obvious records or existing research and having the time to conduct that research. Owners also face the issues of time and money; whether to do their own research and the reality of how waiting can increase the costs of restoration or even stabilization. In this case, Anna-Marie is determined to do both. Realizing she let time get away from her, she has marshaled her extensive family to clear away tree limbs from the house, remove the detritus and move all the fallen bricks into a shed. She hopes to find grants to bring the building back to the way it was in the 1800s. I sincerely hope she achieves her goal and the group who spent the day there are very happy to have a record of this unique and charming building.

^{^[1]} Trotter, Louise Price, History of Mary Ann Gardner Price, by her Daughter, p. 3.

Call for Abstracts: Landscapes of Slavery, Landscapes of Freedom due March 15, 2021

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:30:00 GMT

Landscapes of Slavery, Landscapes of Freedom:

The African diaspora and the American built environment

Harvard Graduate School of Design

November 5-7, 2021

Histories of the Atlantic world have focused both on the adaptation of ideas from the Old Continent to the new and on the material and cultural exchanges occurring throughout the centuries. To complement this scholarship, studies have been conducted on the slave trade between West Africa, mainland North America and the Caribbean, which formed the base of plantation economy and helped build the fortunes of many landowners in the colonial and antebellum period of the republic. Recent scholarship has acknowledged the violence of the archive of white records of slavery that have silenced the voices of the enslaved, and this work has sought to recover the experiences and vantage points of slavery’s victims.

This forum will address a more specific set of questions that have to do not only with the unique contribution the forced labor of the African diaspora and Afro-descendants brought to the plantation economy, but also with the potential exchange of knowledge about gardening and cultivation practices across the Atlantic, both from West Africa and between the Caribbean and mainland North America. On occasion the cultivation of specific staple crops such as rice depended upon the expertise of the enslaved. More generally, many of those forced to labor on their masters’ plantations simultaneously worked on small plots of land within their quarters, enabling them to exercise limited agency with regard to the extent and type of crop cultivation for their own use and consumption. When slavery legally ended, the exploitation of black labor continued, although over time black land-ownership increased and perhaps involved different approaches to land use than was common among white small-holders. Reconstructing these histories and those of the environments Africans built and cultivated for others and for themselves is challenging, as there is only a limited archival record that contains few enslaved voices.

This conference seeks to engage with the work of archaeologists, ethnobotanists, cultural geographers, anthropologists, and of experts in African American Studies and oral history in order to form a more complete picture of the African contribution to the shaping of the North American landscape.

Proposals for unpublished papers are welcome from scholars in any field. Topics might include (but are not limited to) such subjects as:

• the relationship between place-making and slave labor in North America and its cultural, social and economic underpinnings.

• the adaptation of imported African horticultural and agricultural knowledge in the Caribbean and North America.

• the exchange of knowledge related to agricultural and gardening practices between the Caribbean and the North American mainland.

• Atlantic World foodways.

• crop cultivation and food growing practices on plantation sites indebted to forced labor.

• the ways in which slavery and forced labor made intensive cultivation and production possible.

• the place-making of former slaves in both rural and urban environments.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words are to be headed with the applicant’s name, title of the paper, professional affiliation, and contact information. A two-page CV should also be included in the submission. Please send proposals by March 15, 2021 to: Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Email: rfabiani@gsd.harvard.edu

Authors of accepted proposals will be required to submit the complete text of their papers by June 15, and carry out potential revisions by August 30, 2021, after which the symposium chair will circulate them among the speakers. Publication of the essays presented at the conference is anticipated.

Attention Student Architectural Historians: Sally Kress Thompkins Fellowship application open now

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 09:00:00 GMT

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, a joint program of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), permits a graduate student in architectural history or a related field to work on a 12-week HABS history project during summer 2021. The Fellow’s research interests and goals will inform the building or site selected for documentation by HABS staff. HABS is a program of the National Park Service and the Fellow is usually stationed at our Washington, DC office. The award consists of a $12,000 stipend, and SAH conference registration and travel expenses up to $1,000.

Applications accepted Sept. 1 – Dec. 31, 2020

For more information visit the NPS website for the Tompkins Fellowship

Meet Board Member Phil Gruen

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 08:00:00 GMT

I’ve been interested in the entirety of the built environment for as long as I can remember. But I didn’t know anything about the vernacular until (now outdated) textbooks and exam methods of my undergraduate years attempted to reinforce differences between “high” and “low.” This never made much sense to me, and hardly reflected a more equitable perspective about the world I had learned in my youth. Raised in the public school climate of Berkeley, California in the 1970s and 80s, I remember holding hands with fellow classmates and singing “We Shall Overcome” more than I recall singing the Star-Spangled Banner. But I sang that too: attending major league baseball games and finding myself as intrigued by stadium architecture as much as the games themselves. Nobody told me that I wasn’t supposed to find entertainment- or theme-oriented buildings worthy of critical inquiry. For better or worse, I always thought buildings such as these told fascinating stories about culture, and I have directed much of my research towards them.

Affiliation with VAF (I’ve been a board member since 2019 but a member for much longer than that), provides me—all of us—with the institutional gravitas necessary to ensure that my interest in otherwise unorthodox topics or perspectives will find a home. It also reminds me that pulling over to photograph a fast-food restaurant or my images of the view from my hotel window—no matter how mundane—not only will find a curious audience, but one that likely has more of such photos and is analyzing them in critical ways revealing important new insight into issues of race, class, gender, or justice.

I consider myself highly fortunate to have had my passion for this sort of intellectual and physical exploration fostered, encouraged, and questioned by Peter Hales, Bob Bruegmann, and Mitchell Schwarzer during my M.A. program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, by Dell Upton and Paul Groth during my Ph.D. years at U.C. Berkeley, and by old (and new) VAF colleagues far and wide. Lessons from them continue to resonate: maintaining rigor, but never losing the passion for fieldwork, no matter its form. This is especially the case because I’ve spent the last seventeen years teaching at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington: a tiny place nestled into the endless rolling hills of wheat and lentils in the remote, yet striking, setting of the Palouse in eastern Washington. The layered complexity of the region is not immediately evident. But I am eternally grateful to VAF for helping me learn how to read a small rural community and its people—methods that have also helped my students recognize the richness of any place. So long as they are willing to explore.

I’ll admit, though, that my appreciation and understanding of my local community is strengthened by learning about places elsewhere. I can’t wait to join up with you in San Antonio 2021, this time for real (fingers crossed): I know I’m not alone in highlighting the incredible VAF conferences, tours, and guidebooks, which themselves are worth the price of admission. Until then, we’ll continue our efforts remotely. As the chair of VAF’s education committee, I’ll do my best to keep us traveling virtually by moving the guidebooks, along with course syllabi, into the digital sphere. Please don’t hesitate to contact me at jpgruen@wsu.edu if you have a syllabus to share. It is imperative that we continue to raise awareness about what we do.

Obituary: Edward A Chappell 1948-2020

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:40:00 GMT

Edward A. Chappell died in hospital of a heart attack on Saturday, July 25, 2020. He was born in Farmville, Virginia, October 16, 1948, the only child of Edward Acree and Rosa May Chappell. His wife, Susan Buck, survives him. Ed had made Williamsburg his home since 1980 when he was hired to rebuild and direct the Architectural Research Department at Colonial Williamsburg. He retired in 2016, by then holder of an endowed chair, the Shirley and Richard Roberts Director of Architectural and Archaeological Research.

His education and early work experience were preparation for this career appointment and for a wide variety of special projects in Virginia, Annapolis, Charleston, Jamaica, Bermuda, Antigua, and elsewhere. Taken together, they earned his reputation as a leading preservationist and historian of early Atlantic-world architecture. He attended Ferrum College and the College of William & Mary before taking a graduate degree from the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Ed was one of a small army of young men and women who found starter jobs with state historic preservation offices following passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Working summers and eventually full-time, he crisscrossed the backroads of Kentucky and Virginia surveying and recording hundreds of historic structures and archaeological sites before he finally settled down in the job at Colonial Williamsburg.

He brought his field experience to the Foundation at just the right time. Historians there were busy rethinking its educational mission. Their goal was to retell an American history more broadly conceived. They sought to take into account everybody who’d had parts to play in a more complicated story. Restored Williamsburg needed places to tell those stories. During Ed’s long tenure, he and the able young architectural historians he hired into his department added numerous missing buildings to the restored townscape—two slave quarters, a market house, a retail store, a hospital asylum, a coffeehouse, a city-county courthouse, a Revolutionary War armory, and a tin shop. Before he retired, plans were in hand to rebuild a working playhouse. His vision took in the environs of the 18th-century capital as well. He argued successfully to enlarge the greenspace around the Historic Area and to create scenic easements along the wooded approaches to the town. He encouraged the president and the trustees to invite the celebrated British neo-classicist architect Quinlan Terry to design additions to Merchants Square.

Ed and his colleagues generously shared Colonial Williamsburg’s largesse with many sister institutions. He and they lent their expertise to Monticello, Mount Vernon, Prestwould, Drayton Hall, Historic Charleston Foundation, Historic Annapolis, and to many private house owners as well. Ed always insisted that this side work was more than an even-steven trade: “When we see more, we learn more. We take away more than we give back.” Many of these outside projects found their way into publications, sometimes co-authored, sometimes Ed solo.

His irresistible curiosity about folk buildings everywhere took him literally to the ends of the earth. For pleasure or professionally (it was hard to tell the difference) he sought out world architecture. He traveled far and wide to Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Bali, Nepal, Bhutan, and China, and that isn’t counting innumerable side trips to England and Europe. Everywhere he went he measured floorplans, profiled moldings, and sketched hardware. These drawings, among other personal papers, he has donated to the Virginia Historical Society.

The breadth of Ed’s scholarship was a measure of his fascination with the makers of things and the things they made. He was an avid collector, a sorter and hoarder, and ultimately a generous donor: handwoven baskets, wood carvings, street paintings, exquisite Christmas tree ornaments, Chinese communist kitsch, and, most important of all, modern Pueblo pottery. For years he and Susan traveled to the Zuni reservation in New Mexico. There he interviewed potters who were trying to fit their fresh artistic visions to a venerable Zuni pot-making tradition. He concentrated on the work of a single modern master, Randy Nahohai, and ended up documenting and writing about a whole family of potters and the spiritual culture that underpins their work. Along the way Ed acquired a notable study collection of Pueblo pottery, soon to be shared with visitors to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Folk Art Museum at Colonial Williamsburg, and the Heard Museum in Phoenix.

Back home in Williamsburg Ed was a persistent citizen advocate for good civic and collegiate design. He served on architectural review boards for both the City and the College. Gentle persuasion was his preferred gambit, but, if need be, he could lower his voice, stretch out his Farmville drawl, and stare down college presidents, city officials, and even his employers. For his trouble the College gave him its highest stewardship award. For his steadfastness his fellow citizens came to regard him as the town’s foremost champion of architectural and landscape design that could and should be as forward-looking today as it was 200 years ago.

Ed Chappell was as many-sided as the miscellany of fans and friends who now mourn his sudden death. He leaves behind his two cousins Jeanne Edenzon and Kathy Powell, whom he regarded as sisters, and also their children who deeply loved and admired their “uncle”. When he married Susan, he joined a New England-bred family. They too embraced him and were entranced by his many travel adventure stories. He enlivened the lives of all who knew him.

A memorial service will be scheduled when it is safe to gather and share stories of Ed’s expansive and generous life. Meanwhile and in lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made payable to “Colonial Williamsburg for the Ed Chappell Architectural Research Fund" and sent to P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187.

Obituary: Donald W. Meinig, 1924-2020

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:30:00 GMT

republished from the Jewish Federation of Central New York:

Donald William Meinig, Ph.D., professor, author, husband, father and grandfather, passed away Saturday, June 13, in Syracuse. He was 95. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 64 years, Lee. Don was known as a gentleman scholar, dignified friend and community leader and supporter.

Meinig was Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment and Maxwell Research Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. His research included historical, regional and cultural geography as well as landscape interpretation. His most ambitious and well-known work is the four-volume series The Shaping of America (published 1986, 1993, 1998, and 2004). He also concentrated on literary spaces and geography, stating, "Literature is a valuable storehouse of vivid depictions of the landscapes and lives of modern-day society." Upon publication of volume four of The Shaping of America, Meinig was presented with the Presidential Achievement Award by the Association of American Geographers, its highest award, as well as the J.B. Jackson Prize for the best book interpreting the geography of America.

Professor Meinig was a Fulbright Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was the first American geographer to be elected as a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, in 1991. In 1965, the Association of American Geographers awarded him a citation "For Meritorious Contribution to the Field of Geography," and the American Geographical Society gave him their Charles P. Daly Medal in 1986. Meinig received an honorary doctorate (D.H.L.) from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in 1994. The Geographical Review devoted a special issue to him in July 2009. In 2010, he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Raised on a farm in Palouse, Washington, Meinig enlisted in the Army in 1943 and served stateside as a 2nd lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers until his honorable discharge in 1946. He received his bachelor's degree at Georgetown University and earned graduate degrees in geography from the University of Washington in 1950 and 1953. Starting in 1950, Meinig held a faculty position at the University of Utah. In 1958 he left Utah for a visiting position at the University of Adelaide in Australia under a Fulbright scholarship and in 1959 he joined the Syracuse faculty. He was chairman of the geography department at Syracuse from 1968 to 1973. Don lectured at universities around the world and he and Lee traveled widely, living briefly in Australia, Scotland and Israel.

In 1992, Meinig gave the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture, titled "A Life in Learning," saying, "It has been such a richly satisfying thing that when I reflect upon my life. It seems as if from the moment I first looked out in wonder across the hills of Palouse I have lived happily ever after."

He was loved and admired by many. Together he and Lee raised three daughters -Laurel Meinig Brewster, Kristin Cominsky and Lee Meinig. Other family members include his sons-in-law, Bob Brewster, Sidney Cominsky and John Tate; grandchildren Anna Cominsky Gatesy and her husband Sean; Elise Cominsky, Noah Cominsky, Maria Tate, and Carmen Tate and great-grandchildren Jordan Gatesy, Cameron Gatesy, and Matthew Herrera.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, a funeral will be held in Syracuse at a date to be determined. Memorial contributions may be made to a local food bank.

Jeremy Ebersole joins Milwaukee Preservation Alliance as new Executive Director

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:00:00 GMT

In June 2020, Jeremy Ebersole received his MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Oregon in Portland where his terminal research entitled “A Sight to Dwell Upon and Never Forget: Illuminating Strategies for Saving Portland’s Neon Signs” explored the history of neon signage with a focus on Portland, articulated the signs’ many benefits to cities, identified shortcomings in current preservation tools, and recommended action steps based on case studies of 20 innovative neon preservation initiatives around the country. The research has been presented on Instagram Live with Backroad Tripster, the Mondo Neon podcast, the Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage, and the APT/National Trust Joint Conference and elements will soon be published in the SCA Journal. Jeremy also recently joined the Milwaukee Preservation Alliance in Wisconsin as Executive Director.

Jose Vasquez awarded two prestigious grants

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 06:59:00 GMT

Jose Vasquez was awarded the Fulbright Garcia Robles Grant for 2020 by the US-Mexico Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (COMEXUS). He will be teaching in the Spring 2021 at Mexico’s Universidad de Guadalajara. Jose also received the Miami Dade College's Presidents Innovation Fund for his work on Miami Vernacular which was in part funded with an Orlando Ridout V Field work grant in 2018 and featured in VAN Fall 2019.

Robert Edwards publishes essay in New York Beacon

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Member Robert Edwards published an essay on expanding architectural history titled "The New Narrative: Will black history finally get to sit in the front of the bus?" in the New York Beacon newspaper in August. Below is an excerpt:

By Robert Louis Brandon Edwards

Is it really a new narrative or are some folks just now realizing that a part of history has been excluded from lectures, textbooks, conversations at the dinner table, and at museums and historical sites all across America? I ask you— what do you about the history of slavery? What do you know about the history of segregation? Think about how and why you know what you know. I know it is incredibly annoying to some, to read an essay with questions but this is a time for reflection and to provoke thought— to maybe ruffle a few feathers even. So if you suffer from a bad case of fragility please turn the page, and the next, and maybe even the page after that because this may take a while.

As an architectural historian I am trained to see a structure and a space and think about when it was designed, its architectural features, who designed it, and for whom; as an architect, I am trained to imagine and reimagine structures and spaces and to develop innovative design concepts; but as a black man, I am trained to question if some of these structures, spaces, and even landscapes are designed for me and how. How does a black body experience the built environment or maneuver through different landscapes? There is a certain level of “spatial consciousness” that I encompass and for me, the relationship between race and space is not theoretical. It is ingrained in the history of this country and cannot be fully understood from an article, podcast, documentary, or historical plaque or marker. It cannot be fully understood from a series of webinars or from the news of yet another police shooting of an unarmed black person. This is something that can only be fully understood with years of exposure, something that is felt and seen on a regular basis. It is something that I experienced first hand growing up in New York City during the 1990s. Not only would I get stopped and frisked in certain neighborhoods by Giuliani’s police department, but I encountered the invisible lines of segregation, inequality, and racism that were strategically placed throughout the city. I lived in Harlem, which at the time was a predominantly black community in Manhattan, but I attended schools in predominantly white communities, so I learned to maneuver through these different environments with a certain cultural dexterity.

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Kenneth Hafertepe wins Ron Tyler Award for new book on Waco, TX

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:55:00 GMT

Longtime member Ken Hafertepe’s latest book, Historic Homes of Waco, Texas (2019) has won the Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture from the Texas State Historical Association. His previous book, The Material Culture of German Texans (2016) also won the Tyler Award, as well as awards from the Victorian Society in America, the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians, and the San Antonio Conversation Society.

Remember to mark your calendars for May 19-23, 2021 for VAF in San Antonio.

While Supplies Last: Free Book to VAF Members

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:30:00 GMT

While supplies last, William B. Rhoads will ship one free copy of his book, Charles S. Keefe (1876-1946) Colonial Revival Architect in Kingston and New York (Black Dome Press, 2018) to VAF members in the U.S. who send a request to: rhoadsw@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu.

Summer/Fall Bibliography

Christine R Henry — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:00:00 GMT

compiled by Travis Olson

Ainsworth, Kyle. “Field Hands, Cowboys, and Runaways: Enslaved People on Horseback in Texas’s Planter-Herder Economy, 1835–1865.” Journal of Southern History 86, no. 3 (2020): 557–600. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2020.0168.

Alcindor, Mónica, and Daniel Coq-Huelva. “Refurbishment, Vernacular Architecture and Invented Traditions: The Case of the Empordanet (Catalonia).” International Journal of Heritage Studies 26, no. 7 (July 2, 2020): 684–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1678054.

Allen, Michael R. “Architectural Humanities in the Time of Pandemic and Revolt.” PLATFORM (blog), July 13, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/architectural-humanities-in-the-time-of-pandemic-and-revolt.

Bailey, Yelena. How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Baker, Bruce E. “Fires on Shipboard: Sandbars, Salvage Fraud, and the Cotton Trade in New Orleans in the 1870s.” Journal of Southern History 86, no. 3 (2020): 601–24. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2020.0169.

Barnett, William C., Kathleen A. Brosnan, and Ann Durkin Keating, eds. City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History. History of the Urban Environment. (Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).

Barry, Fabio. Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Age of Enlightenment. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020).

Baughn, Jennifer V. O., Michael W. Fazio, and Mary Warren Miller. Buildings of Mississippi. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020).

Beattie, James, ed. Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes. (London: Routledge, 2018).

Beck, Ann Flesor. Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland. Heartland Foodways. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020).

Blevins, Brooks. History of the Ozarks: The Old Ozarks. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020).

Bonser, Sarah. Virtual Vernacular. (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020).

Bottazzi, Roberto. Digital Architecture beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design. (New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018).

Brandi, Richard. Residence Parks Of San Francisco: A Historical and Architectural Study, 1905-1924. S.L.: MCFARLAND, 2020.

Bremner, G.A., ed. Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

Brenneman, Robert E., and Brian J. Miller. Building Faith: A Sociology of Religious Structures. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

Brooker, Colin. The Shell Builders: Tabby Architecture of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands. (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2020).

Campagna, Barbara A. “Redefining Brutalism.” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Special Issue: The Next Fifty Symposium (2020), 51, no. 1 (2020): 25–36.

Campanella, Thomas. Brooklyn The Once and Future City. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020).

Chappell, Marisa. “The Strange Career of Urban Homesteading: Low-Income Homeownership and the Transformation of American Housing Policy in the Late Twentieth Century.” Journal of Urban History 46, no. 4 (July 2020): 747–74. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218825102.

Christensen, Peter H., ed. Buffalo at the Crossroads: The Past, Present, and Future of American Urbanism. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).

Cohen, Jean-Louis. Building a New New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020).

Coleman, Jon T. Nature Shock: Getting Lost in America. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020).

Collins, Julie. The Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790-1940. Routledge Research in Architectural History. (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Connolly, N. D. B. “The Southern Side of Chicago: Arnold R. Hirsch and the Renewal of Southern Urban History.” Journal of Urban History 46, no. 3 (May 2020): 505–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219893680.

Darlington, John. Fake Heritage: From Artefact to Artifice, Why We Rebuild Monuments. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020).

Davis, Will. “Loneliness, Disappearance and the Veneer of Protection.” PLATFORM (blog), August 24, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/loneliness-disappearance-and-the-veneer-of-protection.

Dayle John, Kelsey. “Fences Tell a Story of Land Changes on the Navajo Nation.” Edge Effects (blog), July 14, 2020. https://edgeeffects.net/fences-the-navajo-nation/.

Demshuk, Andrew. Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).

Donnelly, Colm, Eileen Murphy, Dave McKean, and Lynne McKerr. “Migration and Memorials: Irish Cultural Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 24, no. 2 (June 2020): 318–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-019-00521-y.

Drueding, Meghan. “At a Lush Florida Site, an Artist’s Grand Vision Comes Together.” Preservation Magazine, Summer 2020. https://savingplaces.org/stories/at-a-lush-florida-site-an-artists-grand-vision-comes-together#.X03sb8hKjIU.

Ekman, Peter. “‘Radburn Rackets’: Robert D. Kohn and Marjorie Sewell Cautley’s Sketches Against the Speculative Suburb.” PLATFORM (blog), July 6, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/radburn-rackets-robert-d-kohn-and-marjorie-sewell-cautleys-sketches-against-the-speculative-suburb-ht5p8.

Emery, Mary Lou. Bungalow Modernity: A Study of Twentieth Century Fictions of Home. (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020).

Erickson, Jennifer Lynn. Race-Ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).

Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella, ed. The Culture of Cultivation: Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture. (Abingdon, Oxon and New York, NY: Routledge, 2020).

Farhat, Georges, and Dumbarton Oaks, eds. Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism. (Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2020).

Fernandez, Lilia. “In the Shadow of the Second Ghetto.” Journal of Urban History 46, no. 3 (May 2020): 500–504. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219891152.

Fordham, Clifton, ed. Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era. (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Gabrielian, Aroussiak, and Alison B. Hirsch. “Prosthetic Landscapes: Place and Placelessness in the Digitization of Memorials.” Future Anterior 15, no. 2 (Winter 2018): 112–30.

Golubev, Alexey. The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).

Graefenstein, Sulamith. “The Memory Imperative as a Narrative Template: Difficult Heritage at European and North American Human Rights Museums.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 26, no. 8 (August 2, 2020): 768–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1693414.

Graham, James. “‘Commercial Battles of Self-Support’: Concrete Construction and the Disabled World War I Veteran.” Future Anterior 16, no. 1 (Summer 2019): 17–32.

Granger, Willa. “Viewing, Watching, Observing: Aging and the Architecture of Intermediate Space.” PLATFORM (blog), July 20, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/viewing-watching-observing-aging-and-the-architecture-of-intermediate-space.

Half, Daphna E. “Typology as Situatedness: The Architectural Dialectics of Modern Vernaculars in British Mandate Palestine.” The Journal of Architecture 25, no. 3 (April 2, 2020): 230–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2020.1758954.

Harlan, Megan. Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays. Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2020).

Headley, Gwyn, and Wim Meulenkamp. The English Folly: The Edifice Complex. (Liverpool: Historic England in association with Liverpool University Press, 2020).

Hoffman, Lisa M., and Mary L. Hanneman. Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021).

Hovey, Bradshaw. “The Global Context of the Future of Preservation Technology.” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Special Issue: The Next Fifty Symposium (2020), 51, no. 1 (2020): 5–8.

Hunziker, Alyssa A. “Playing Indian, Playing Filipino: Native American and Filipino Interactions at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.” American Quarterly 72, no. 2 (2020): 423–48. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2020.0031.

Jasper, Adam. Architecture and Anthropology. (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Jordan, Kate, and Ayla Lepine, eds. Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom. (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2020).

Kalakoski, Iida, Satu Huuhka, and Olli-Paavo Koponen. “From Obscurity to Heritage: Canonisation of the Nordic Wooden Town.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 26, no. 8 (August 2, 2020): 790–805. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1693417.

Karaim, Reed. “A San Francisco Victorian House Provides a Portal to the Past.” Preservation Magazine, Summer 2020. https://savingplaces.org/stories/haas-lilienthal-san-francisco-victorian#.X03sbchKjIU.

Kelley, Stephen J., Donald Friedman, Kyle Normandin, and Pamela Jerome. “The Paradox and Dilemma of Reconstruction: A Report from the 2018 College of Fellows Roundtable.” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Special Issue: The Next Fifty Symposium (2020), 51, no. 1 (2020): 49–55.

Klanten, Robert, and Andrea Servert Alonso-Misol. Beyond the West. New Global Architecture. (Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2020).

Kyung Lee, Min, and Andrea Borghini. “Dwelling in Times of Quarantine.” PLATFORM (blog), April 6, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/dwelling-in-times-of-quarantine.

Landa, Pablo. “Building the City of God in Tijuana: How Migrant Shelters Are Transforming Mexican Urban Landscapes.” PLATFORM (blog), August 31, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/building-the-city-of-god-in-tijuana-how-migrant-shelters-are-transforming-mexican-urban-landscapes.

Larson, Jessica, and Aubrey Knox. “A Building Worth Remembering.” PLATFORM (blog), August 3, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/pzs0nkzwnfpp1yibr6f5hqyxtravn8.

Lawrence, Ranald. “Halls, Lobbies, and Porches: Transition Spaces in Victorian Architecture.” The Journal of Architecture 25, no. 4 (May 18, 2020): 419–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2020.1767176.

Lawrence, Ranald. The Victorian Art School. (Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2021).

Le Devehat, Marie. “The Local Perception of the Memory of Communism in a Dictator’s Hometown; the Case of Gjirokastra.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 26, no. 8 (August 2, 2020): 753–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1693413.

Lewis, Robert D. Chicago’s Industrial Decline: The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920-1975. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).

Liebermann, Wanda Katja. “Whose Heritage? Architectural Preservation and Disabled Access in Boston and San Francisco.” Future Anterior 16, no. 1 (Summer 2019): 35–56.

Linds, Justin Abraham. “Fermentation, Rot, and Power in the Early Modern Atlantic.” Edge Effects (blog), August 11, 2020. https://edgeeffects.net/fermentation-rot-and-power/.

Lock, Katy, and Hugh Ellis. New Towns: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth. (London: RIBA Publishing, 2020)

Loosen, Sebastiaan, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde Heynen, eds. Figure of Knowledge: Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s. (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2020).

Lozanovska, Mirjana. Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration. (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Lutz, Raechel. “Petroleum’s Park: How Oil Shaped the Palisades Interstate Park, 1900–1960.” Technology and Culture 61, no. 3 (July 2020): 713–38.

Maher, Ashley, ed. Reconstructing Modernism: British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

Martínez, Ana. Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico’s Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020).

Meints, Graydon M. The Fishing Line: A History of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2018).

Merlino, Kathryn Rogers. Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020).

Mitchell, Koritha. From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. The New Black Studies Series. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020).

Mitchell, LaLuce. “The Next Fifty: Perspective from the Next Generation.” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Special Issue: The Next Fifty Symposium (2020), 51, no. 1 (2020): 9–12.

Navin, John J. The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020).

Niles, Skye, and Shawhin Roudbari. “Design, Politics, and Infrastructures of Immobility.” PLATFORM (blog), August 3, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/design-politics-and-infrastructures-of-immobility.

Beveridge, Charles E., Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills, eds. Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020).

Paine, Ashley. “Not Quite Wright: Re-Performing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Ex Situ.” Future Anterior 15, no. 2 (Winter 2018): 62–79.

Pearson, Christie. The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020).

Perry, Beth, L. Ager, and R. Sitas. “Cultural Heritage Entanglements: Festivals as Integrative Sites for Sustainable Urban Development.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 26, no. 6 (June 2, 2020): 603–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1578987.

Perry, Laura, and Paige Glotzer. “Financing American Inequality: A Conversation with Paige Glotzer.” Edge Effects (blog), May 19, 2020. https://edgeeffects.net/paige-glotzer/.

Picon, Antoine, and Abigail Grater. The Materiality of Architecture. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020).

Poling, Kristin. Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City. History of the Urban Environment. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).

Polley, Robert and Margaret Fletcher. Handbook of Architectural Styles. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020).

Ptáčková, Jarmila. Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects. Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020).

Rakow, Donald Andrew, Meghan Z. Gough, and Sharon A. Lee. Public Gardens and Livable Cities: Partnerships Connecting People, Plants, and Place. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).

Rieh, Sun-Young. Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments: How Young Children Construct Place Attachment. (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Rosso, Michela, ed. Laughing at Architecture: Architectural Histories of Humour, Satire and Wit. Place Of (New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020).

Rozas-Krause, Valentina. “Sinking Monuments: Notes on Our Current Statuophobia.” PLATFORM (blog), July 20, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/sinking-monuments-notes-on-our-current-statuophobia.

Savage, Kirk. “No Time, No Place: The Existential Crisis of the Public Monument.” Future Anterior 15, no. 2 (Winter 2018): 146–54.

Schwake, Gabriel. “The Americanisation of Israeli Housing Practices.” The Journal of Architecture 25, no. 3 (April 2, 2020): 295–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2020.1758952.

Sen, Arijit. “Walking the Field in Milwaukee.” PLATFORM (blog), July 13, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/walking-the-field-in-milwaukee.

Serlin, David. “Banking on Postmodernism: Saving Stanley Tigerman’s Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (1978).” Future Anterior 16, no. 1 (Summer 2019): 87–108.

Sinha, Amita. Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed. (Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).

Snyder, Daniel E. Tender Detail: Ornament and Sentimentality in the Architecture of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020).

Som, Nicholas. “The Front Doors of James Madison’s Montpelier Show Their True Colors.” Preservation Magazine, Summer 2020. https://savingplaces.org/stories/the-front-doors-of-james-madisons-montpelier-show-their-true-colors#.X03sYchKjIU.

Sprague, Tyler S. Sculpture on a Grand Scale: Jack Christiansen’s Thin Shell Modernism. (Seattle: University of Washington, 2019).

Strang, Victoria, Tim Edensor, and Joanna Puckering, eds. From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light. (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Taylor, Amy Murrell. Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil Wars Slave Refugee Camps. (Chapel Hill: Univ Of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. “The Banality of Segregation: Why Hirsch Still Helps Us Understand Our Racial Geography.” Journal of Urban History 46, no. 3 (May 2020): 490–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219896575.

Taylor, Lisa. Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices. (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Thompson Brandt, Mark, and Cory Rouillard. “Climate Chaos and Heritage-Conservation Values: The Urgency for Action.” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Special Issue: The Next Fifty Symposium (2020), 51, no. 1 (2020): 37–48.

Ventos, Maria Rubert de. “Breathing Room.” PLATFORM (blog), May 18, 2020. https://www.platformspace.net/home/breathing-room-k3pdn.

Wang, David. Architecture and Sacrament: A Critical Theory. (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Whyton, Tony. “Space Is the Place: European Jazz Festivals as Cultural Heritage Sites.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 26, no. 6 (June 2, 2020): 547–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1517375.

Widrich, Mechtild. “Moving Monuments in the Age of Social Media.” Future Anterior 15, no. 2 (Winter 2018): 132–44.

Wiggins, Danielle. “‘Order as Well as Decency’: The Development of Order Maintenance Policing in Black Atlanta.” Journal of Urban History 46, no. 4 (July 2020): 711–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218822805.

Williams, Rhonda Y. “Places Created and Peopled: ‘Black Women: Where They Be . . . Suffering?’” Journal of Urban History 46, no. 3 (May 2020): 478–89. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219896574.

Williams, Timothy J. “The Intellectual Roots of the Lost Cause: Camaraderie and Confederate Memory in Civil War Prisons.” Journal of Southern History 86, no. 2 (2020): 253–82. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2020.0036.

Woodcock, David G. “Preservation Philosophy and Approaches: The Next Fifty.” APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Special Issue: The Next Fifty Symposium (2020), 51, no. 1 (2020): 13–24.

Yaneva, Albena. Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy. Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).

Zavoretti, Roberta. Rural Origins, City Lives: Class And Place In Contemporary China. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020).

Zimring, Carl A., and Steven H. Corey, eds. Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).

Zubovich, Katherine. Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020).