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.

November 6-8,1986

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

A symposium to honor Edgar Kaufmann, jr., on the 50th anniversary of the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright's house at Bear Run, Pennsylvania.

Sponsored by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University in the City of New York.

 

Friday, November 6
Avery Hall

5:30 - 6:00 Registration
Keynote Address: Vincent Scully, Yale University, "Frank Lloyd Wright and History" 

Followed by a reception.

 

Saturday, November 7

9:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:30 - 9:45 Introduction
Robert A. M. Stern

9:45 - 10:30
Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University, "Primordial Fires: Frank Lloyd Wright, Gottfried Semper, and the Chicago School"

10:30 - 11:15
Jack Quinan, SUNY Buffalo, "Wright, Photography, and Architecture"

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:15
Franklin Toker, University of Pittsburgh, "Master Builder: Mr. Kaufmann of Pittsburgh"

12:15 - 12:45 Response and Discussion
William Jordy, Brown University
Anthony Alofsin, Columbia University

12:45 - 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 - 2:45
H. Allen Brooks, "Fallingwater and Frank Lloyd Wright's Responses to Modernism"

2:45 - 3:30
Kathryn Smith, Southern California Institute of Architecture, "Running Water, Still Water: The Life Force in the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright"

3:30 - 3:45 Coffee Break

3:45 - 4:30
Neil Levine, Harvard University, "The Temporal Dimension of Fallingwater"

4:30 - 5:00 Response and Discussion
Kenneth Frampton, Columbia University
Vincent Scully, Yale University

5:00 - 5:30 Concluding Remarks
Edgar Kaufmann, jr.

Followed by a reception.