Dear all,

I’m wondering if we could compile a reading list and/or make available the compiled syllabi from the submissions over the past year or so. I think it would be fascinating to have a collaborative document to look at and be familiar with where to go when new and poignant resources become available in the scholarship of the interior. I…[Read more]

“Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial” edited by Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, Daniel E. Coslett, 2022, Routledge. (Copyright Year 2022); https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-Global-Modernism-Architectural-Historiography-and-the-Postcolonial/Prakash-Casciato-Coslett/p/book/9780367636715, last…[Read more]

The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970

by Kenneth Frampton

Yale University Press

Publication Date: January 25, 2022.

“Usually associated with Mies and Le Corbusier, the Modern Movement was instrumental in advancing new technologies of construction in architecture, including the use of glass, steel, and reinforced c…[Read more]

The Temple Hoyne Buell Center announces a new Tool Kit for teaching about green reconstruction:

https://mailchi.mp/cd93f1f0e9e3/green-reconstruction-buell-center?e=e5f7590a9c

“Digital Archive of Greek Female Architects 1923-1981 / Ψηφιακο Αρχειο Ελληνιδων Αρχιτεκτονων 1923-1981, by Helen Fessas-Emmanouil.

For information, please see, https://www.academia.edu/63180222/DIGITAL_ARCHIVE_OF_GREEK_FEMALE_ARCHITECTS_1923_1981

Archives, Collections and Curatorship:
Virtual Special Issue for the Journal of Design History
June, 2019, Zoë Hendon
https://academic.oup.com/jdh/pages/archives_vsi, last accessed on 9.24.2021

” Design historians frequently find their interest in a particular subject prompted by archival materials, or begin their research with…[Read more]

(Interior) Renovation of the Historic Netsch Home (Docomomo 2021); Transforming the Netsch Home by Brian Lee; https://www.docomomo-us.org/events/national-symposium/schedule; last accessed on 9.9.2021.

( “…Netsch’s application of field theory creates expansive sight lines between rooms; indeed, the only spaces in the entire house with doors ar…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Below is an announcement regarding the new interface for Archnet.org, which will be deployed very soon. I wanted to bring it to the attention of this group because the site is intended to be a pedagogical resource on the built environment.  While our focus is on societies in which Muslims have been a significant cultural…[Read more]

Last 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]

https://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]

CALL FOR AUTHORS
Call for Authors: SAH WiA AG & SAH Archipedia Publication Project on the Work of Women Architects

In anticipation of the annual program, March 2022: SAH WIA AG Celebrates Women’s History Month, SAH Archipedia editors and the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group are collaborating on a publication project to highlight the w…[Read more]

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture: Free Virtual Book Launch at AA Bookshop London UK, July 7, 2021, 2:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM GMT. Join us! Chair: Nerma Cridge, Speakers: Yuri Avvakumov, Ed Frith, Samantha Hardingham, Anna Sokolina, others TBD.

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women…[Read more]

The ACSA webinar, “Lessons in Anti-Racist Design Pedagogy,” a collaboration with Dark Matter University, took place on May 20, 2021.

The recording and program description are available at: https://www.acsa-arch.org/webinars/dark-matter-university-lessons-in-anti-racist-design-pedagogy/

SAH Archipedia features PDF lesson plans for K-12 and higher education. More teaching resources are being developed and will be added to the site.

https://sah-archipedia.org/content/Teachers

“Race &” is a podcast sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians that explores the influence of race and race thinking on the built environment. Follow co-hosts Charles Davis (SUNY Buffalo) and Maura Lucking (UCLA) as they conduct interviews, roundtable discussions, and conversations with the foremost academics of the arts and sciences…[Read more]

Welcome to the Teaching Resources group!

Please use this group to share teaching resources such as lesson plans, syllabi, webcasts, podcasts, videos, research guides, and other materials that may be of interest. Thank you for contributing.

The following is republished from https://architecture.barnard.edu/building-solidarities-0. 

About Building Solidarities

Building Solidarities is a form of mutual pedagogy between the Barnard / Columbia campus and the public, through student-led dialogues on urgent questions about constructed environments, urban life, and…[Read more]

About GAHTC

The ambition of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC) is to address the needs of educators in diverse disciplinary contexts by providing practical lecture materials for teaching global architectural history at the survey and introductory level. This effort does not preclude more advanced level education, b…[Read more]