The School of Architecture was robustly represented at the important Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting. Eight faculty members across the SoA’s departments presented their research, co-chaired a panel, and led architectural tours.
Carrie Bly, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor, presented a paper, “From Center Market to Commerce Department, Washington, DC, ca. 1913/31 in the session “Making Markets.”
Chantal El Hayek, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor, presented a paper, “The Spiritualist Foundations of Urbanism,” in the session “Secularization and the Persistence of the Sacred.”
Rosetta S. Elkin, PhD, Professor in the Master of Landscape Architecture program, was the co-chair of the session, “Plant Back: Gardening As Transformative Practice.”
Dante Furioso, Visiting Assistant Professor, presented a paper, “From Foundations to the Roof: Black Building Labor in 1830s Havana,” in the session “The Spaces of Labor(ers).”
Jeffrey Hogrefe, Professor, is the incoming co-chair of the Indigenous Architecture Affiliate Group of the Society for Architectural Historians. During the conference, this group organized a presentation by Elis Mendoza of PATIO Lab, a forensic architecture and social mapping laboratory.
Elena M’Bouroukounda, Visiting Assistant Professor, presented a paper, “Plantation Banking: Default, the Crédit Foncier Colonial, and Architectural Fragments in Réunion (1860–1920)” in the session “Bad Buildings: Writing the Stories of Difficult Architecture.”
Masha Panteleyeva, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, presented a paper, “Negotiating Identity: Contested Heritage in Post-Soviet Kyiv,” in the session “Erasure and Resilience in Eastern European Architectures.”
Shivani Shedde, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor, was awarded the David Brownlee Dissertation Award
Meredith TenHoor, PhD, Professor and academic coordinator of undergraduate history and theory, presented a paper, “Qu’est-ce que tu fais? Family, Collaboration, and Aging as an Architect” in the session “Architectural Histories of Expansive Families.”
The Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference brings together professionals in architectural history and allied fields for the scholarly exchange of ideas through keynote lectures, paper sessions, receptions for further conversation and networking, site-specific architectural tours, and more. The conference is held in a different location each year, and this was the first time it was held in Mexico. Participation in the conference is through a highly competitive selection process. It is exciting that so many of the SoA faculty presented their work, and congratulations to all who presented their research.