Program - Society of Architectural Historians

3:00 p.m. Socialist modernity: the built environment debate
in East Germany, Torsten Lange, University College
London
3:25 p.m. The communists have changed: Oscar Niemeyer’s
headquarters for the PCF, Vanessa Grossman,
Princeton University
3:50 p.m. Postcolonial Architecture in Ahmedabad: Towards a
Synthesis, Elisa Alessandrini, University of Bologna
4:15 p.m. Discussion/Q&A
4:30 p.m. Closure of Session
PS23
Room:
Architectural Ecologies: A Relational History
of Architecture
Karin Jaschke, University of Brighton, Chair
D2-11, Cobo Center
2:00 p.m. Introduction
2:10 p.m. Pliny Fisk and the Wager of Systems, Sarah Deyong,
Texas A&M
2:40 p.m. Learning from Edo: Architecture at the Intersection
of Milieux, Ariel Genadt, University of Pennsylvania
3:10 p.m. Future Fossils: Architectural Geohistories, Lydia
Xynogala, Princeton University
3:40 p.m. Bateson, Beer and Pask: Emergence of an
Eco-Materialist Aesthetics, Jon Goodbun, University
of Westminster
4:10 p.m. Discussion/Q&A
4:30 p.m. Closure of Session
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PS24 Architecture’s Nocturnes
Thomas Mical, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Chair
Room: D2-13, Cobo Center
2:00 p.m. Introduction
2:10 p.m. Urban Noir as Future-Gazing: Hugh Ferriss’s Metropolis
of Tomorrow, Adnan Morshed, The Catholic
University of America
2:50 p.m. Lost in Space City: The Rothko Chapel & The Astrodome,
James O’Connor, University of Cambridge
3:30 p.m. Evocations of a Historical Night in Venice, Anne
Marie Fisker, Aalborg University, Marie Frier Hvejsel,
Aalborg University
4:10 p.m. Discussion/Q&A
4:30 p.m. Closure of Session