Bard Graduate Center Undergraduate Summer School in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture https://www.bgc.bard.edu/ug-summer-school announced a 2021 course introducing students to the history of design and fashion in the United States and Europe from the mid-nineteenth century to the present with a focus on how conceptions of race,…[Read more]

Please join the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group and SAHGB’s Women’s Architectural Historian’s Network for a SAH CONNECTS virtual program.

The Advent of Women Architectural Professionals: A US-UK Comparative Perspective | Monday, March 8, 2021, 12:00 – 1:30 pm CST
https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/sah-connects/the-advent-of-…[Read more]

Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University by Reinhold Martin, Columbia University Press, March 2021, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/knowledge-worlds/9780231189835, last accessed on 2.8.2021.

SAH 2021 Virtual Conference Program; https://www.sah.org/2021-virtual-conference, last accessed on 2.2.2021.

Lynne Dearborn and Nastaran Shishegar Receive 2021 ARCC Awards

https://arch.illinois.edu/about-us/news/lynne-dearborn-and-nastaran-shishegar-receive-2021-arcc-awards/ 

2021 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education awarded to Kathryn Anthony

https://www.aia.org/press-releases/6356469-2021-aiaacsa-topaz-medallion-for-excellenc

Guggenheim free access event: “The World Around Summit 2021: Architecture’s Now, Near, and Next”

https://www.guggenheim.org/event/the-world-around-summit-2021-architectures-now-near-and-next?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=E_TWAAnnouncement_012021

Forthcoming book by Kenneth Frampton; please see: Kenneth Frampton, The Other Modern Movement, Architecture, 1920–1970, Yale University Press, Publication Date: May 4, 2021:https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300238891/other-modern-movement, last accessed on 1.19.2021.

Here is a new seminar at the Harvard GSD, 2021 Spring term (if anyone is interested in it):

“Hidden Figures: The City, Architecture and the Construction of Race and Gender

“By Hansy Better Barraza,
Visiting Professor in Architecture and Urban Planning and Design, spring 2021 term,

For more, please:…[Read more]

Beverly L. Greene and Norma Merrick Sklarek:
New Research in Black Women’s History in Architecture

Virtual event and discussion organized by the Columbia University, GSAPP Program on January 15, 2…[Read more]

Now through 4.10.21: Engineer, Agitator, Constructor marks a recent transformative addition to MoMA from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, one of the great private collections of political art. Illuminating the essential role of women in avant-garde activities while mapping vital networks across Europe, the exhibition presents the social…[Read more]

Thursday, January 28, 11:00 am–12:30 pm CST, COVID and CONTAGION | Society of Architectural Historians (sah.org) Free and open to the public.
Carla Yanni, Second Vice President of the Society of Architectural Historians will moderate the discussion.
Panelists:
Annmarie Adams, McGill University, SAH WiA AG Advising Chair
Chris Clarke McQueen, M…[Read more]

I’m a classically trained composer considering writing a chamber piece about Joan of Arc.  I’m looking for information regarding (folk, or not) songs she would have probably been familiar with during the early part of her life – before she began her quest.  Any information, links, suggestions, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!