Friday, October 21, 2022

Paula Lupkin, University of North Texas

Moderator: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Research Committee

At SAH 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, HIG President Paula Lupkin presented a paper based on extensive research into the historiography of interiors in several major scholarly journals, including the Journal of the…[Read more]

From Paula Lupkin:

HIG Folk,

HIG’s Emerging Scholars Symposium on Digital Interiors, concluded on Friday June 17, was brilliantly conceived, organized, and led by Lauren Drapala, Laura Jenkins, Vanessa Vanden Berghe and Michelle Jackson-Bennett. Recordings of both panels are now available for viewing through the SAH Connects website.

The…[Read more]

Free and open to the public. The symposium will be recorded and video will be available online after the events.

This symposium, sponsored by the SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG), will bring together Emerging Scholars and early-career professionals from across the globe to discuss digitality in relation to the study and practice of…[Read more]

National Symposium: Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia

(The 2022 National Symposium is a collaboration of Docomomo US and Docomomo US/Philadelphia)

May 31 – June 5, 2022

Philadelphia, PA

“ Yo! Modernism! In the Philadelphia region, ‘yo’ is a colloquialism used to get someone’s attention quickly. It’s a phrase without pretense, and when…[Read more]

For those of you attending the SAH 2022 Conference next week, I attach a guide compiled by the HIG Events and Conferences Committee to highlight sessions of interest to HIG members.

All best,

Jennifer Olivarez

SAH-HIG-The Historic Interiors Affiliate Group, invites its members and scholars of medieval art and architecture to submit proposals for its second HIG-organized session at the Society of Architectural Historians in Montreal in April 2023.  Its focus, on material culture and medieval church interiors, expands our group’s consideration of the hi…[Read more]

Thresholds 50: The Exhibition
On view April 22-May 18, 2022
MIT Keller Gallery 7-408

“ On the occasion of its anniversary issue, Thresholds 50: The Exhibition invites readers to join the editorial team of Thresholds 50: Before | After to look backwards and forwards at pasts, futures, and present possibilities. Featuring new research, creative i…[Read more]

Concrete in Switzerland, Histories from the Recent Past

Edited by Salvatore Aprea, Nicola Navone, Laurent Stalder, and Sarah Nichols

April 2022

The University of Chicago Press, distributed for EPFL

” A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss architectural archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in…[Read more]

Date: Wed May 18, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Location: The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

“Architectural History as Migrant History:  The Development of a Binational Construction Industry from Below” with Sarah Lopez | Spring 2022 Warnock Lecture

“Architectural History as Migrant History tracks the development ove…[Read more]

Columbia GSAPP Event Series: Writing Architectural History 

April 22, 1 PM.

Location: Zoom & Avery 114

“This book launch and discussion for Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), organized by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture to…[Read more]

Our upcoming seminar series ‘Hidden Histories: Gender in Design’ aims to bring to the fore hidden or previously ignored figures and design projects, and seeks to highlight the role of gender and collaborative process behind much design history of the last century and into the future.
The seminars are free and held online so we warmly invi…

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Reading Interiors | Temporary House of Home For Reading Interiors, the artist Tivon Rice trained a number of AI voices to engage with images from Het Nieuwe Instituut’s archives. Photos and illustrations of interiors are analysed and described by a machine learning system that operates somewhere on the spectrum of human and non-human language w…[Read more]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Terra-sponsored Digital Art History Article in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

Deadline: April 15, 2022

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (NCAW) is pleased to announce the continuation of our series American Art History Digitally supported by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The editors of NCAW are no…[Read more]

Docomomo US/New England call for board nominations:

“Are you interested in helping to preserve and share the significant heritage of modernism in New England? The New England chapter of Docomomo US is reaching out to those who might want to become involved in extending the group’s reach throughout the region and in participating in activities and…[Read more]

SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group: Student Mentoring Program | Virtual Roundtable

As part of the annual program, March 2022: Celebrating Women’s History Month, SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group is pleased to announce the launch of the SAH WIA AG Mentoring Program. The first Student Mentoring Program virtual roundtable, o…[Read more]

Historic Interiors Group Book Event Monday, March 28, 2pm EST (11 am PST, 12 pm MST, 1 pm CST, 7:00 GMT) 

New Approaches to Interiors in New Books  

Organized by the SAH Historic Interiors Group (HIG), this online event concerns methods and approaches to race, gender, sexuality and politics in two new books which can help in und…[Read more]

Yasmeen Lari talk: Saving humanity and saving the planet

Join RIBA International for a talk with Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to qualify as an architect in Pakistan. Lari is renowned for her work of empowering marginalised communities through architecture and building the world’s largest zero carbon shelters programme.

Date: 18 March 2022,…[Read more]

SAH Archipedia: Women in Architecture Series
https://sah-archipedia.org/Series/Women-in-Architecture

” As part of the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group’s annual program, “March 2022: Celebrating Women’s History Month,” SAH Archipedia editors and the SAH WiA AG are pleased to announce the publication of the Women in Architecture Series…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues, Please join us in person at Pratt Institute or Virtually for Interior Provocations 2022: onEDGE | Saturday April 9, 2022. Please circulate amongst your network and with students.

Admission is free, RSVP required  Updates available on the Interior Provocations website https://commons.pratt.edu/interiorprovocations/

SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) Digital Interiors: Emerging Scholars Symposium

The SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) is seeking proposals for its 2nd Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium: Digital Interiors, to be held virtually in June 2022. The shift to virtual work and learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has…[Read more]