Program - Society of Architectural Historians

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/ Program Schedule • THURsday \
PS4
Room:
Institutions and Their Architecture in the
17th Century
Anthony Geraghty, University of York, and Lydia M. Soo,
University of Michigan, Co-Chairs
D3-20, Cobo Center
9:00 a.m. Introduction
9:10 a.m. Architecture as Institutional Evidence in 17th-Century
England, Olivia Horsfall Turner, English Heritage, UK
9:35 a.m. Alexandria on the Cam: The Wren Library and the
Ancient City, Robert Ferguson, University of Minnesota
10:00 a.m. The Architecture of Scientific Institutions in England,
1660–1680, Matthew Walker, University of Edinburgh
10:25 a.m. Making the Metropole: The East India Company in London,
Byron Bronston, University of California, Berkeley
10:50 a.m. Imagining Iberia, Dreaming of Home: A British Colonial
Landscape, Ann-Marie Akehurst, University of York
11:15 a.m. Discussion/Q&A
11:30 a.m. Closure of Session
PS5
Room:
9:00a.m.
Radical Marble
Nicholas Napoli, Pratt Institute, and William Tronzo,
University of California, San Diego, Co-Chairs
D3-22, Cobo Center
Introduction
9:10 a.m. Decorative Display in Roman Public Baths: Intention
and Reception, Maryl Gensheimer, New York University
9:35 a.m. Water from the Rock: The Use of Marble in Ravenna’s
Baptisteries, Carly Jane Steinborn, Rutgers University
10:00 a.m. Romanitas in Anglia: Purbeck Marble in Gothic England,
Matthew Woodworth, Duke University
10:25 a.m. Marble and Marble’s Twin Brother, at Home and in
Colonial Brazil, Madalena Matos, Technical University
of Lisbon
10:50 a.m. The Silent Seed of Modernity: How Marble Made
Rationalism, Daniele Vadalà, University of Reggio
Calabria
11:15 a.m. Discussion
11:30 a.m. Closure of Session
PS6
Room:
9:00 a.m. Introduction
Infrastructure as Political Technology
Andrew Herscher, University of Michigan, Chair
D3-24, Cobo Center
9:10 a.m. Tropical Measures: Systemic Ambiguities in Fry and
Drew’s Projects in Africa, Ijlal Muzaffar, Rhode Island
School of Design
9:40 a.m. Fast-Track Development: Israeli Construction in 1961
Sierra Leone, Ayala Levin, Columbia University