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November Newsletter 2013

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November 2013 Volume LVII, No. 11 / Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter
 
  Speaker and Sessions Chair Child-Care Grant Deadline Extended
The deadline for the has been extended to November 30, 2013. Applications are now being accepted. Speaker and Session Chair Child-Care Grants offer up to $200 per family to assist av福利社 session chairs, speakers, and Graduate Student Lightning Talk participants who are bringing children to the in Austin, Texas (April 9-13).
 
2014 Annual Conference Program Mails Next Month 
The 2014 Annual Conference program will be mailed to all av福利社 members in December. Please make sure your mailing address is current to receive your copy of the printed program. Log onto the av福利社 website to update your address and profile today. Need help logging on? See .
     
  Planning for the 2017 Annual Conference in Glasgow 
av福利社 is seeking your input on dates for the 2017 av福利社 Annual Conference, which is planned for Glasgow, Scotland. We need your feedback about which set of dates may be more convenient for you. Since this conference would be held in the month of June, rather than April, your input is especially important. .
     
    av福利社 Members Receive 50% Discount on JPASS
In collaboration with JSTOR, av福利社 is pleased to offer its members a special, discounted fee for JPASS, a new JSTOR access plan for individuals. Designed for those without institutional access to the JSTOR archival collections, JPASS is ideal for av福利社 members working outside of the academy. It is also valuable for faculty members at institutions with limited access to JSTOR, and for adjuncts with sporadic access to library resources. Regardless of your institutional affiliation, JPASS serves as your personal library card to the rich selection of journals on JSTOR. .
     


  Miami and Miami Beach Study Day
Miami is the quintessential world city. Young, dynamic, and diverse, the city finds its longstanding role as a commercial center and port of entry reflected in its emerging status as a center for art and design in the western hemisphere. Held on February 7, 2014, this Study Day offers a chance to visit two recent examples of the city’s architectural patrimony, the newly-opened Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and 1111 Lincoln Road. Pritzker Prize laureates Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron designed both buildings, whose patrons – Robert Wennet and Terry Riley – will welcome Study Day participants. Among the exhibitions on display at PAMM will be a site-specific installation by Ai Weiwei. .
     
  Croatia at the Crossroads of Time and Space Study Tour
The 2014 Croatia Study Tour, held August 18-29, explores the transformation of Croatia's rich built environment in harmony with the beauty of the natural environment along the Adriatic Sea Coast from Dubrovnik to Venice with visits to many of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. Boris Srdar, principal architect the Seattle-based firm NAC|Architecture, will serve as tour leader and lecturer. An optional Study Day at the Venice Biennale will be offered on August 30. .
     

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Are you on Instagram? Then follow us at . We'll be sharing photos and videos of our events, tours, Annual Conferences and more. Be sure to also follow us on and (@av福利社1365) to keep up with the latest news and opportunities from av福利社.
     

  New Chapter of av福利社 at SCAD
The James Oglethorpe Chapter at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is the newest student chapter of av福利社. Olivier Maene is the president of the chapter, which strives to promote the interdisciplinary field of architectural history, while advocating a greater understanding of the built environment. .
     
  Call for Nominations to the Jav福利社 Editorial Advisory Committee
The Society of Architectural Historians invites nominations and self-nominations for eight individuals to serve on the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Editorial Advisory Committee for staggered terms of one to four years. features leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of the history of the built environment. Ideal candidates have published substantially in the field and may come from any of the Society’s constituencies in academia, preservation, museum work or independent scholarship; institutional affiliation is not required. The Society seeks to form a committee that will collectively provide expertise across the discipline’s chronological and geographic subfields. .
     
  av福利社 Study Day Columbus Report
By Joss Kiely, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
The av福利社 Study Day to Columbus, Indiana, led by Henry Kuehn, aimed to showcase a large cross section of modern and postmodern projects, all clustered in a small town an hour south of Indianapolis. Amid farm fields and silos, Columbus, a small town of 44,000 people, is home to as many important modern and contemporary architectural projects as a city one hundred times its size. The daylong tour was intensive and enlightening, and included a range of projects from the late 19th century to additions currently under construction. .
     
  Isolated Monsters: Neoclassical Architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentina
By av福利社ARA Travel Fellow Caroline "Olivia" Wolf
The urban location of the colonial façades and Andalusian patios featured throughout this collection may surprise its viewers. After all, Buenos Aires is renowned for the international nature of its modern architecture, which drew heavily upon French, Italian and British influences. Yet amidst the Neoclassical, Beaux-Arts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco monuments that dominate Argentina’s capital city, one encounters another twentieth-century movement — the Neocolonial style, also known as the Colonial Renaissance. .
     
 
Oppose Devastating Cuts to the NEH
In its FY 2014 budget resolution, the House of Representatives Budget Committee called for the complete elimination of funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, writing that the programs funded by NEH “…go beyond the core mission of the federal government, and they are generally enjoyed by people of higher-income levels, making them a wealth transfer from poorer to wealthier citizens.” The House subcommittee that oversees the NEH’s appropriation has followed through on the spirit of this resolution by approving a 49 percent cut to the agency’s budget. Oppose the cuts and help restore NEH's critical support for the humanities by
 
Chapter & Partner News 
This year, the offered its members two well-attended programs. Springtime featured a tour of two of San Francisco's prime historic residential parks, while a fall program took members to Mare Island Naval Station, a National Register site and the oldest naval base on the Pacific Coast. Winter will find NCCav福利社 snuggled in one of San Francisco's historic movie theaters for an architecture-themed film festival.

Join the on November 16, as they explore 40 years of master planning by renowned Case Study House architect Edward A. Killingsworth at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) and Crosby Doe Associates, the program will begin with an informative panel discussion, followed by a book signing and self-guided walking tour of the campus. The panel will feature former colleagues of and experts on Killingsworth's architecture and planning activities. .

invites proposals to organize and chair a sponsored session at the 68th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians to be held in Chicago, April 15-19, 2015. The IAS is actively seeking proposals to be submitted by December 1, 2013. The IAS is guaranteed one session — propose yours today! For more information, please contact Nicola Camerlenghi, vice president for program coordination, or visit the  page of the IAS .
 
Current av福利社 Opportunities 
: The av福利社 Award for Film and Video was established in 2013 to recognize annually the most distinguished international work of film or video on the history of the built environment. Deadline December 1.

: A joint program of the Society of Architectural Historians (av福利社) and the National Park Service's Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), this fellowship permits an architectural historian to work on a 12-week HABS project during the summer of 2014. Deadline December 31.

: A joint program with the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, this fellowship supports the participation of a graduate student in the research and writing for a volume in the Buildings of the United States (BUS) series and/or av福利社 Archipedia, the Society’s online architectural resource. Deadline January 2.

: av福利社 68th Annual Conference in Chicago: The Society invites members and future members to chair a session at the 2015 av福利社 Annual Conference in Chicago, April 15-19. Deadline January 15.
  
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av福利社 November Booklist
Read the  of recently published architecture books and related works. The booklist and exhibition catalog list are selected by Barbara Opar, Architecture Librarian, Syracuse University Library.