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April Newsletter 2013

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2013 Volume LVII, No. 4 / Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter
 
2013 av福利社 Fellows Announced at Annual Conference in Buffalo
At the 66th Annual Awards Ceremony, the Board of Directors named as Fellows of the Society of Architectural Historians the following individuals who have distinguished themselves by a lifetime of significant contributions to the field: Nancy Stieber, Frank Kowsky, Barbara Miller Lane, and Jack Quinan. Their contributions include scholarship, service to av福利社, and stewardship of the built environment. .
   
2013 av福利社 Publication Award Winners Announced
Every year the Society presents six awards to honor the most distinguished publications in architectural history, urban history, landscape history, preservation, and architectural exhibition catalogs that have been published in the previous two years. av福利社 also presents the Founders' Award for the best Jav福利社 article written by an emerging scholar in the previous two years.
   
Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award
Jean-Louis Cohen, Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War, Canadian Centre for Architecture/ Éditions Hazan, 2011

Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award - Honorable Mention
Heather Hyde Minor, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010

Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award
Anthony Vidler, James Frazer Stirling, Notes from the Archive, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2010

Antoinette Forrester Downing Award
Daniel Bluestone, Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation, W.W. Norton & Company Press, 2011

Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award
David H. Haney, When Modern Was Green: Life and work of landscape architect Leberecht Migge, Routledge, 2010

Spiro Kostof Book Award
Sheila Crane, Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture, University of Minnesota Press, 2011

Founders' Jav福利社 Article Award
Kathryn E. O’Rourke, “Guardians of Their Own Health: Tuberculosis, Rationalism, and Reform in Modern Mexico,” Jav福利社, Volume 71, Number 1, March 2012


   
 
av福利社 Call for Papers for 67th Conference in Austin, TX
The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 67th Annual Conference in Austin, TX, April 9-13, 2014. Please submit abstracts no later than June 1st for one of the 30 thematic sessions or for the open sessions. Sessions have been selected to cover topics across all time periods and architectural styles. av福利社 encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; members of partner organizations; and graduate students. .  
   
Announcing BUS Texas
The latest in the Buildings of the United States Series, Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, is now available online through the UVA Press. .  
   
Hashim Sarkis Lecture on Geo-Architecture
Hashim Sarkis, Harvard GSD, will speak on "Geo-Architecture" on April 17, 6pm, at IIT. This lecture is part of the Chicago Expander at Archeworks program directed by Iker Gil and Antonio Petrov and is co-sponsored by av福利社. .
   
  av福利社 Blog: Two Perspectives on Preservation

The two latest blog posts describe the contrasting stories of two Neutra & Alexander buildings. Richard Longstreth's  writes on the demolition of the Gettysburg Cyclorama and Barbara Lamprecht's  writes on the successful fight to save the former U.S. Embassy in Karachi, Pakistan. 

av福利社 Blog: Why the Humanities Matter
In his post , Kostis Kourelis poses the question of how av福利社 will address the financial crisis confronting the humanities and what direction architectural history should take to stay relevant. Leave your thoughts in the comments! 
   
Symposium: Michigan Modern
 is a symposium hosted at Cranbrook Education Community, Blomfield Hills, from June 13-16. This event will explore how Michigan designers and architects met the challenge of a new century with innovative design and new methods and materials. . 
 
Gifts to av福利社 Archipedia and Buildings of the United States Publications
In the last year, av福利社 has received a number of grants for av福利社 Archipedia and three volumes of the Buildings of the United States series, Buildings of Texas Volume I (2013), Volume II (2016), Buildings of Hawaii (2011), and Buildings of North Dakota (2014). .
 
av福利社/Mellon Author Award - Deadline June 1
The is now receiving applications. The award is a temporary measure to provide financial relief to early-career scholars who are publishing monographs on architectural history and the history of the built environment, and who are responsible for paying for rights and permissions for images in their publications. The deadline is June 1, 2013. 
 
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av福利社 April Booklist
Read the  and of recently published architecture books and related works. The booklist and exhibition catalog booklist are selected by Barbara Opar, Architecture Librarian, Syracuse University Library.