Society of Architectural Historians 68th Annual Conference in Chicago, April 15-19, 201

The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 68th Annual Conference in Chicago, April 15-19, 2015. Please submit abstracts no later than June 6, 2014, for one of the 32 thematic sessions or for an open session. Sessions have been selected to cover topics across all time periods and architectural styles. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; and members of partner organizations.

List of Sessions

  • After Analog: New Perspectives on Photography and Architecture
  • Ancients and Moderns: The Unraveling of Antiquity
  • Architectural Histories of Data
  • Architectural History in the Anthropocene
  • An Architectural History of the Pacific Basin?
  • Architecture in A New Light
  • Bigger Than Big: American Matter Out Of Scale
  • Brutalism in the Americas: North-South Connections
  • Building Practices in Transcontinental Migration
  • Darwinism and the Evolution of American Architecture
  • Destroying and Constructing Reality: Material and Form Since 1800
  • Dwelling In Asia: Translations between Housing, Domesticity & Architecture
  • Emotional Histories of Architecture
  • Environmental Technologies In History: Chicago’s Role
  • From Drawing to Building – Reworking Architectural Drawing
  • Housing: Intersections of Architecture, Planning & Social Reform
  • Industrial Landscapes and Heritage: A Global Examination
  • The Invaluable Indigene: Local Expertise in the Imperial Context
  • The Legacy of Totalitarianism
  • Materiality and Modernism
  • The Printed and the Built
  • Reassessing the Cold War in Architecture and Planning
  • Replicas: Contentious Reconstructions of The Past
  • Repositioning Mughal Architecture Within the Persianate World
  • Resource Architectures
  • Sound Modernity: Architecture, Technology, and Media
  • The Tent: One of Architecture’s Many Guises
  • Time, Transformation, and Textuality in African Architecture
  • 21st Century Critical Conservation: Re-Thinking the Status Quo
  • Vernacular Chicago: Architecture in the City Of Broad Shoulders
  • Watery Networks
  • What Canon? Questions of Landscape History
  • Open Session