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April 2017 Newsletter

Apr 17, 2017 by av福利社 News

 
April 2017 Volume LXI, No. 4 / Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter
 
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 		   Call for Papers: av福利社 2018 Saint Paul Conference
The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 71st Annual International Conference in Saint Paul, MN, April 18-22. Please submit an abstract no later than 5:00 p.m. CDT on June 15, 2017, to one of the 45 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the open sessions.
     
China    Register for China Field Seminar
December is the perfect time to go to China when the trip is south of the Yangtze River. Travel in the warmth and sun of South China from Shanghai to China’s greatest beauty spots and gardens (Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Ningbo), the great capital Nanjing, the commercial seaport Guangzhou (Canton) and off-the-beaten-track Huizhou and Guiyang, with long-time av福利社 member and Chinese architectural historian Nancy Steinhardt.
     
FLWMoMA

   Register for Preview of Frank Lloyd Wright at MoMA
Join curators and scholars at The Museum of Modern Art on June 2 for a one-of-a-kind, daylong preview of Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, a major exhibition on one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th century. The fellowship deadline is April 28, 2017.
     
    av福利社 Partners with GAHTC to Offer Grants
av福利社 is partnering with the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative to offer Research-to-Teaching Grants and Field Seminar Travel Grants. These new grants are part of the GAHTC's nearly $500,000 in funding to build new content for its free, digital platform of teaching materials.
     
students    Call for Partnerships: av福利社 American Architecture & Landscape Field Trip Program
av福利社 seeks partners to organize tours of the built environment for our youth-oriented American Architecture and Landscape Field Trip program. Created to provide opportunities for underserved students from the third grade through high school, av福利社 offers grants to not-for-profits to organize tours for young people on the history of architecture, parks, gardens, and town/city planning.

     
conference    av福利社 Annual Fund
Thank you for making the Society of Architectural Historians a part of your professional and cultural life. Your partnership and support allow us to carry out av福利社’s educational mission, maintain the robust resources we offer members, and expand our collective understanding of the built environment. We hope you will make a contribution to the av福利社 Annual Fund today to support vital programs


     
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   Jav福利社 March Issue Now Available
av福利社 is pleased to announce the release of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 76, No. 1, March 2017 issue. av福利社 members can access full articles by first logging on to the av福利社 website and visiting the Jav福利社 Online webpage.

     
Syria
   av福利社ARA Highlights: Syria
It seems appropriate to acknowledge the tragic damage and destruction caused by the civil war to so many of Syria’s significant buildings, including all six of its UNESCO heritage sites. Thanks to the research, travel, and photography of our members and their contributions, there are valuable images in av福利社ARA of these monuments taken before these assaults.

     
Japan
   Reclaimed: Sites of Conflict, Industry and Population Change in Japan
By Danielle S. Willkens, 2015 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellow
Spring is beginning to make an appearance in Japan. Although the evenings are still cool in central Honshu, the days are getting warmer and some of the sakura [cherry blossoms] are blooming, complementing the deep purple flowers of the plum trees that signify the end of winter.
 

 
Second-Quarter Donors
The Board of Directors and av福利社 staff thanks its many donors for their gifts to support our mission and educational programs during the period from January 1–March 31, 2017. .
 
Current av福利社 Opportunities
: Open to current full-time graduate students and emerging professionals to participate in the av福利社 Study Day Special Preview of Frank Lloyd Wright at MoMA, June 2. Deadline April 28.

: These awards provide financial relief to scholars who are publishing their first monograph on the history of the built environment and who are responsible for paying for image rights and permissions. Deadline June 1.

: Open to current full-time graduate students and emerging professionals to participate in the av福利社 Field Seminar to China, December 26-January 7. Deadline August 31.
 
av福利社 Chapter and Partner News
"Observations from Cuba: The Architecture of Havana, Matanzas, and Varadero" presented by John Guenther, architect and architectural historian, at the  on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 6:30-8:00 pm, free. This lecture is part of the av福利社 St. Louis Chapter and the Steedman Architectural Library presentation of the av福利社 2017 Lecture Series. Join us for an open house of the Steedman Architectural Library from 6:00-6:30 before the lecture.

Docomomo US welcomes guests to join them for their second travel tour series, , October 14-22, 2017. The tour will focus exclusively on Mexico City's modern architecture, art and design. Tour leaders Louise Noelle Gras and Kathryn O'Rourke will be joined by Juan Ignacio del Cueto. Register today.
 
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Princeton University - Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Fellows
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av福利社 April Booklist
Read the of recently published architecture books and related works. are selected by Barbara Opar, architecture librarian, Syracuse University Library.
 
New av福利社 Members
av福利社 welcomes our newest members: Ian Anderson, Jennifer Anderson, Melanie Bishop, Katherine Breen, Roger Canon, Ab Card, Erik Carver, Doruk Çiftçi, Bruce Corley, Miranda Critchley, Caroline Edwards, Panagiotis Farantatos, Adrian Forty, Miel Groten, Sarah Hendriks, Kimberly Henry, Mollie Hutchings, Daniel Kaplan, Sara Kovachich, Penny Lewis, Aimee Lind, Mhairi McVicar ,Cequyna Moore ,Eelco Nagelsmit, Dijana Omeragic Apostolski, Tom Parnell, Sarah Pearce, Rebekah Perry, Christopher Purcell, Jr., Andy Rivera, Nancy Royal, Annie Rubel, Eva Schreiner, Alexa Sekyra, Elena Smirnova, Blair Smith, Nicole Stoecklmayr, Elliott Sturtevant, Rebecca Tropp, Michael Tymkiw, Aaron White, Nelson White, Dilan Yigit, and Sarah Yoon.