“This year’s Annual Symposium is held in partnership with Architects Declare, ACAN, Heritage Declares, and the RIAS. Spread across two weeks, the Symposium is convened by Prof Alex Bremner, Dr Barnabas Calder, Savia Palate, and Dr Neal Shasore.”

“ The Symposium places the nexus between architecture and energy centre stage in our under…[Read more]

“This year’s Annual Symposium is held in partnership with Architects Declare, ACAN, Heritage Declares, and the RIAS. Spread across two weeks, the Symposium is convened by Prof Alex Bremner, Dr Barnabas Calder, Savia Palate, and Dr Neal Shasore.”

“ The Symposium places the nexus between architecture and energy centre stage in our under…[Read more]

Archives, Collections and Curatorship:
Virtual Special Issue for the Journal of Design History
June, 2019, Zoë Hendon
https://academic.oup.com/jdh/pages/archives_vsi, last accessed on 9.24.2021

” Design historians frequently find their interest in a particular subject prompted by archival materials, or begin their research with…[Read more]

Current: Collective for Architecture History and Environment

“…Current: seeks to develop strong alliances with fields that are already poised to address the climate crisis such as ecology, sociology, anthropology, media studies, geography, critical race studies, history of science, history of technology, and the environmental humanities at…[Read more]

Current: Collective for Architecture History and Environment

“…Current: seeks to develop strong alliances with fields that are already poised to address the climate crisis such as ecology, sociology, anthropology, media studies, geography, critical race studies, history of science, history of technology, and the environmental humanities at…[Read more]

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/sah-news/news-detail/2021/09/08/sah-announces-strategic-planning-committee?_zs=BfSgX&_zl=Kfek2, last accessed on 9.9.2021.

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/sah-news/news-detail/2021/08/31/katerina-bong-named-sah-graduate-student-representative?_zs=BfSgX&_zl=Ifek2, last accessed on 9.9.2021.

Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style by Charles L. Davis, at the Columbia University-GSAPP, September 22, 2021; 6:30 pm.

https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/2444-charles-l-davis-ii; last accessed on 9.9.2021.

A conference organized by the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture​; March 5-7, 2020​.

For more: https://architecture.ou.edu/schools-of-thought, last accessed on 8.27.2021.

Last week SAH signed an urgent appeal for Afghanistan’s scholars, students, practitioners, civil society leaders and activists.

The Society of Architectural Historians has signed a letter that Scholars at Risk (SAR), in partnership with 40 higher education institutions, associations and networks, and over 1,000 professionals and students…[Read more]

Last week SAH signed an urgent appeal for Afghanistan’s scholars, students, practitioners, civil society leaders and activists.

The Society of Architectural Historians has signed a letter that Scholars at Risk (SAR), in partnership with 40 higher education institutions, associations and networks, and over 1,000 professionals and students…[Read more]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJZd4VJYowQ, last accessed on 8.23.2021.

https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/reader/189-footnotes-on-climate-a-reading-list-on-architecture-and-climate-change, last accessed on 8.23.2021.

“…This reading list is offered not as a survey of the field or even a syllabus of sorts, but as a collection of documents (historical and contemporary, scholarly and speculative, governmental and act…[Read more]

CALL FOR AUTHORS
Call for Authors: SAH WiA AG & SAH Archipedia Publication Project on the Work of Women Architects

In anticipation of the annual program, March 2022: SAH WIA AG Celebrates Women’s History Month, SAH Archipedia editors and the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group are collaborating on a publication project to highlight the w…[Read more]

An enduring intellectual and a perceptual rift divides the city from the natural world both in scholarship as well as in the public imagination. In the past three decades, humanities scholars working with social and natural scientists have challenged these assumptions by investigating the complex interaction and intersection of cultural and…[Read more]

This co-edited book will examine the role of race in the construction of historical narratives of ‘American architecture’ during the nineteenth century. Focusing on a relatively narrow group of people, structures, and landscapes, canonical surveys of American architecture written up through the 1930s continue to have substantial influence on our…[Read more]

In and Outside the Archive: Evidencing Spatial Performance, Performing Spatial Evidence (SAH Session at CAA 2022)
The following is the call for participation for the SAH session “In and Outside the Archive: Evidencing Spatial Performance, Performing Spatial Evidence,” which will be presented in-person at the CAA 2022 Annual Conference in Chicago,…[Read more]

Barber, D. A., 2020, Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning, Princeton University Press; https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Architecture-Climate-Design-Conditioning/dp/0691170037

Barber, D. A., 2020, Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning, Princeton University Press; https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Architecture-Climate-Design-Conditioning/dp/0691170037

Hello everyone,

If you are interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion in architectural archives, please see for our online panel record:

https://wwd2021.com/diverse-women-artitects, last accessed on 7.30.2021.

Our aim is to continue this discussion online. Please, stay tuned!

Panelists:  *Prof. Dr. Mary Norman Woods, Professor…[Read more]