The biennial Dissertation Colloquium brings together a select group of doctoral students from diverse institutional and disciplinary backgrounds working on dissertation topics related to the history, theory, and criticism of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape. 

The Buell Conference on the History of Architecture brings together scholars in architectural and urban history to discuss topics in architecture, urbanism, and modernity as broadly understood.

Buell Dissertation Colloquium

The biennial Dissertation Colloquium brings together a select group of doctoral students from diverse institutional and disciplinary backgrounds working on dissertation topics related to the history, theory, and criticism of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape. 

May 8, 2015, at 6:00

East Gallery, Buell Hall

Claire Zimmerman, Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planing, delivered a keynote address titled "A Speculative History: Albert Kahn, Building, and Architecture" to open the 2015 Buell Dissertation Colloquium.

The Colloquium continued on Saturday, May 9th with a full day of presentations and panel discussions. See this page for more information.

Image: copyright Albert Kahn Associates, courtesy of Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan