April 5 - 6, 2013
A presentation of selected papers by candidates from international doctoral programs based on dissertation research in areas related to American architecture, landscape, and urbanism.
Friday, April 5
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Opening Discussion: 5:00 - 6:30
Barry Bergdoll and Carole Ann Fabian, "Finding Wright"
Reception: 6:30 - 7:30
Saturday, April 6
612 Schermerhorn Hall
Introduction: 9:30 - 9:45
Reinhold Martin, Columbia University
Panel 1: 9:45 - 11:30
Moritz Gleich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH), "From Storing to Transmitting: Architecture and the Communication of Heat"
Gretta Tritch Roman, Pennsylvania State University, "An Ethos in Exchange: The Currency of Morality and the Chicago Board of Trade Building (1882-85)"
Olga Touloumi, Harvard University, "Architectures of Communication in the 'Workshop for Peace' c.1950"
Response: John Harwood, Oberlin
Panel 2: 11:30 -1:00
Samuel Dodd, University of Texas at Austin, "Design-a-thon: Architecture Made for TV"
Rafico Ruiz, McGill University, Montreal, "The Plant: Subarctic Immaterial Vernaculars on the North Atlantic"
Response: Gabrielle Esperdy, NJIT
Lunch
Panel 3: 2:00 - 3:00
Shiben Banerji, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Between Present and Future: Marion Mahony's Theory of the Globe"
Ginger Nolan, Columbia University, "Aphasia: The Architecture of a Wordless Environment"
Response: Meredith TenHoor, Pratt
Panel 4: 3:30 - 5:15
Catherine Boland Erkkila, Rutgers University, "Remodeling a Nation: How American Railways Shaped the Midwest"
Ana Maria Leon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Machine in the Pampas: Buenos Aires, 1943"
Michael McCulloch, University of Michigan, "City of Homes: Industrialists Shape Detroit's Fordist Urbanism in the 1910's"
Response: Owen Gutfreund, CUNY
Closing Roundtable: 5:15 - 6:00
All participants
Followed by a reception.
