Colleagues & Clients: Women’s Roles in Frank Lloyd Wright’s ArchitectureCall for 2023 Conference Papers/The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s 2023 annual conference, Colleagues & Clients: Women’s Role in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture will explore the significant, but little examined role wom…[Read more]

New books on 19th-century interiors

A book event co-organized by the William Morris Society in the United States and the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians

Friday, February 24, 1 pm EST(10 am PST, 11 am MST, 12 noon CST, 6:00 pm GMT)

Andrea Wolk Rager, The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones…[Read more]

The SAH Historic Interiors Group invites session proposals on the theme of historic interiors for SAH 2024. The Historic Interiors Group (HIG) is an affiliate of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). One of the goals of HIG is to promote and advance scholarship in the history of interiors. HIG regularly endorses a session at the annual…[Read more]

CFP: Conference ‘Educating the Interior Designer’

The conference will take place in Ghent on September 8th, 2023.

Deadline for the call for papers is February 1st, 2023. See http://www.educating-the-interior-designer.com and pdf attachment.

The conference is directly related to a four year research project I’m supervising together with my collea…[Read more]

SAH HIG is looking for blog post ideas on member activities/travel/fieldwork in historic interiors for the HIG web site. Please forward ideas to Jennifer Komar Olivarez at jolivare@artsmia.org.

See Paula Lupkin’s initial post for “HIG in the Field” here:…[Read more]

Boiseries: Decoration and Migration from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Thursday 12th & Friday 13th January 2023 Camden Place, Chislehurst (Kent)

This two-day conference investigates the cultural and commercial migrations of French eighteenth-century boiseries from their places of production in Paris and the Bâtiments du Roi to the…[Read more]

Announcing the SAH Historic Interiors Group Education Roundtable, Friday, December 2nd, 12 to 1:30 pm EST

The HIG Education Roundtable will focus on best practices and new ideas for the teaching of history of interior courses.  The event will include short presentations from experienced educators about what works in the classroom as well as i…[Read more]

DEADLINE SOON: SAH Graduate Student Advisory Committee-organized virtual workshops on new methodological approaches in arch. history and related fields. Proposals due 10/24. Details here: https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/graduate-student-programs/method-acts

Hi all,

Paula Lupkin has prepared the latest HIG Newsletter and Calendar – please see attached. We look forward to seeing you at upcoming events!

Jennifer Olivarez

INVITATION FOR ESSAYS
Interior Provocations: On Edge

We seek a number of history-focused essays to complete an edited volume based on the fifth
annual Interior Provocations symposium, “On Edge.” Like the symposium, the edited volume will
be composed of essays reflecting the research and work of historians and practitioners. Ple…[Read more]

Friday, October 21, 2022

Paula Lupkin, University of North Texas

Moderator: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Research Committee

At SAH 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, HIG President Paula Lupkin presented a paper based on extensive research into the historiography of interiors in several major scholarly journals, including the Journal of the…[Read more]

From Paula Lupkin:

HIG Folk,

HIG’s Emerging Scholars Symposium on Digital Interiors, concluded on Friday June 17, was brilliantly conceived, organized, and led by Lauren Drapala, Laura Jenkins, Vanessa Vanden Berghe and Michelle Jackson-Bennett. Recordings of both panels are now available for viewing through the SAH Connects website.

The…[Read more]

Free and open to the public. The symposium will be recorded and video will be available online after the events.

This symposium, sponsored by the SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG), will bring together Emerging Scholars and early-career professionals from across the globe to discuss digitality in relation to the study and practice of…[Read more]

National Symposium: Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia

(The 2022 National Symposium is a collaboration of Docomomo US and Docomomo US/Philadelphia)

May 31 – June 5, 2022

Philadelphia, PA

“ Yo! Modernism! In the Philadelphia region, ‘yo’ is a colloquialism used to get someone’s attention quickly. It’s a phrase without pretense, and when…[Read more]

For those of you attending the SAH 2022 Conference next week, I attach a guide compiled by the HIG Events and Conferences Committee to highlight sessions of interest to HIG members.

All best,

Jennifer Olivarez

SAH-HIG-The Historic Interiors Affiliate Group, invites its members and scholars of medieval art and architecture to submit proposals for its second HIG-organized session at the Society of Architectural Historians in Montreal in April 2023.  Its focus, on material culture and medieval church interiors, expands our group’s consideration of the hi…[Read more]

Thresholds 50: The Exhibition
On view April 22-May 18, 2022
MIT Keller Gallery 7-408

“ On the occasion of its anniversary issue, Thresholds 50: The Exhibition invites readers to join the editorial team of Thresholds 50: Before | After to look backwards and forwards at pasts, futures, and present possibilities. Featuring new research, creative i…[Read more]

Concrete in Switzerland, Histories from the Recent Past

Edited by Salvatore Aprea, Nicola Navone, Laurent Stalder, and Sarah Nichols

April 2022

The University of Chicago Press, distributed for EPFL

” A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss architectural archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in…[Read more]

Date: Wed May 18, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Location: The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

“Architectural History as Migrant History:  The Development of a Binational Construction Industry from Below” with Sarah Lopez | Spring 2022 Warnock Lecture

“Architectural History as Migrant History tracks the development ove…[Read more]

Columbia GSAPP Event Series: Writing Architectural History 

April 22, 1 PM.

Location: Zoom & Avery 114

“This book launch and discussion for Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), organized by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture to…[Read more]