This group explores the impact of the climate crisis on the methods and narratives used to write architectural history, as well as the role architecture has played in shaping the current crisis. The group also focuses on climate justice—the ways in which inequities and instabilities produced by climate change are distributed, often with the heaviest impacts on the most vulnerable.
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic “Society of Architectural Historians, the 2022 Class of Fellows” in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 1 year, 8 months ago” The Society of Architectural Historians today announced the 2022 class of SAH Fellows, one of the Society’s highest honors. SAH Fellows are individuals who have distinguished themselves by a lifetime of significant contributions to the field, which may include scholarship, service to the Society, teaching, and stewardship of the built e…[Read more]
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Pauline Saliga started the topic Green Reconstruction: A Curricular Tool Kit for the Built Environment in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThe Temple Hoyne Buell Center announces a new Tool Kit for teaching about green reconstruction:
https://mailchi.mp/cd93f1f0e9e3/green-reconstruction-buell-center?e=e5f7590a9c
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Norman Foster's talk on climate change on 11/3. in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 1 year, 10 months agoNorman Foster’s talk on climate change with the US Climate Envoy John Kerry. 11/3.
(Norman Foster’s comments and suggestions might shed light on some critical issues in climate change from a historical perspective in architecture.).
For more, please: https://unece.org/housing/events/unfccc-cop26-climate-breakfast, last accessed on 1…[Read more]
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Joy Knoblauch started the topic What would you like to read together in November? in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 1 year, 11 months agoGreetings, many of you have seen and completed this survey about member interests. We are learning that many of you would like to gain intellectual community, talk about ways to incorporate climate change into your history teaching, and participate in workshops or panels. We are looking at a virtual event Mid-November, perhaps starting with a r…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet–And How We Fight Back in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 1 year, 11 months agoOverheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet–And How We Fight Back
Organized by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.
October, 14
6:30 pm.(virtual event)
“A lecture and discussion with the author of Overheated, Kate Aronoff joined in conversation by Professor Reinhold Martin, Director of the Temple Hoyne Bu…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Architectural History + Climate Emergency Annual Symposium 2021 in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 2 years ago“This year’s Annual Symposium is held in partnership with Architects Declare, ACAN, Heritage Declares, and the RIAS. Spread across two weeks, the Symposium is convened by Prof Alex Bremner, Dr Barnabas Calder, Savia Palate, and Dr Neal Shasore.”
“ The Symposium places the nexus between architecture and energy centre stage in our under…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Current: Collective for Architecture History and Environment in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 2 years agoCurrent: Collective for Architecture History and Environment
“…Current: seeks to develop strong alliances with fields that are already poised to address the climate crisis such as ecology, sociology, anthropology, media studies, geography, critical race studies, history of science, history of technology, and the environmental humanities at…[Read more]
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Pauline Saliga started the topic Sign Letter of Support from Scholars at Risk regarding Afghanistan in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 2 years, 1 month agoLast week SAH signed an urgent appeal for Afghanistan’s scholars, students, practitioners, civil society leaders and activists.
The Society of Architectural Historians has signed a letter that Scholars at Risk (SAR), in partnership with 40 higher education institutions, associations and networks, and over 1,000 professionals and students…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Footnotes on Climate by the Avery Review and Columbia Books on Architecture in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 2 years, 1 month agohttps://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/reader/189-footnotes-on-climate-a-reading-list-on-architecture-and-climate-change, last accessed on 8.23.2021.
“…This reading list is offered not as a survey of the field or even a syllabus of sorts, but as a collection of documents (historical and contemporary, scholarly and speculative, governmental and act…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning. in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 2 years, 1 month agoBarber, D. A., 2020, Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning, Princeton University Press; https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Architecture-Climate-Design-Conditioning/dp/0691170037
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Helena Dean started the topic SAH 2022 Paper Sessions of Interest in the discussion
SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe following paper sessions (and others not included here) may be of interest to members of the SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group. The deadline for the 2022 Call for Papers has been extended to Tuesday, June 8, at 11:59 pm CDT. https://www.sah.org/2022/call-for-papers
