[MassHistPres] an architectural change of pace

[Dennis De Witt]

Want an architectural change of pace?

The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to invite you to a series of short talks on a wide variety of topics — most by PhD candidates and related to their thesis topics. 

Dennis De Witt

 
The SAH/NE Annual Student Symposium features presentations by outstanding students from programs in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, art history, urban studies, historic preservation, and related fields.

 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2014 from 9:00am - 1:30pm at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (Portico rooms). 

The event is free and open to the public.

 More information is available at: https://www.facebook.com/events/255124054664969/

1_ARCHITECTURE OF EMPIRE, NATION AND COMMUNITY (9:25-10:25)

Curious Encounters: Fischer von Erlach’s Porcelain Tower of Nanjing and the Vision of Imperial China

Melany Sun-Min Park (Harvard University)

 
The Etawah Pilot Project: Self-Reform without Revolution

Deepa Ramaswamy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 
Human Space:  Memory and Architectural Theory in Postwar Germany

Sara Hayat (Brown University)


2_ARCHITECTURE OF PERCEPTION (10:40-11:40)

Chambre Obscure: Sensation, Perception, and the Late 18th Century Artificial Grotto

Victoria Addona (Harvard University)

 
Catacoustic Subjectivity:  Carl Ferdinand Langhans’s Theory of Reverberation

Joseph Clarke (Yale University)

 
Assembling the Landscape of Zion: The Mormon Overland Experience and the Convergence of History and Perception in the Great Basin

Brett Culbert (Harvard University)

 
3_ARCHITECTURE AND DISCIPLINARY DISCOURSES (12:25-1:25)

Its Own Sense of Justice: Interpreting the Philadelphia House of Correction

Jamie Devol (Boston University)

 

Ando Tadao and the Making of “Modern Japanese Architecture”

Judy Yoo (Amherst College)

 
CoEvolution Quarterly (1974–1984) and Environmental Participation: Ecology, Exchange, and Expertise

Jessica Varner (Yale University)