April 8 - 9, 2011
A presentation of papers by a select group of doctoral students working on dissertation topics related to the history, theory, and criticism of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape.
Friday, April 8
Opening Discussion: 5:00 - 6:30
Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, author of Progress and Prospects: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, in conversation with Reinhold Martin, Director, Buell Center, Columbia University
Reception: 6:30 - 7:30
Saturday, April 9
Introduction: 9:00—9:15
Reinhold Martin, Director, Buell Center, Columbia University
Panel 1: 9:15 - 10:45
Irene Cheng, Columbia University, "Orson Fowler and the Octagon House as a Technology of the Self"
Francesco Marullo, Berlage Institute, "Typical Plan as Index of Generic"
Response: Edward Eigen, Princeton University
Panel 2: 11:00 - 12:30
Helen Gyger, Columbia University, "World Investments, Productive Homes: The Wichita-Lima Axis"
Kelema Lee Moses, The Pennsylvania State University, "America's Architectural Engagement with the Territory of Hawaii (1900-1959)"
Response: Dianne Harris, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Panel 3: 1:30 - 3:15
Brian Goldstein, Harvard University, "Constructing Community Control: African American Design Activism in Harlem, c. 1968"
Joy Knoblauch, Princeton University, "The Power of Parables: Oscar Newman's Theory of Crime Prevention Through Urban Design (1969-1974)"
Mariana Mogilevich, Harvard University, "People, Plants, and Plants (An Upper West Side Story)"
Response: David Smiley, Barnard College
Panel 4: 3:30 - 5:15
S. Faisal Hassan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Modernist Aberrations: The Dialectics of Expressionism in American Art & Architecture"
Jennifer Reut, University of Virginia, "3000 Years in 15 Minutes: Monumental Itineraries for American Tourists in Post-War Europe"
Deanna Sheward, New York University, "Building for the Bomb: Monumentality and the Manhattan Project"
Response: Joan Ockman, University of Pennsylvania
Closing Roundtable: 5:30
All participants
Reception: 6:00 - 7:00